Contrariwise, there is a no less wide foundation for the generalisation that animals, as Cuvier puts it, depend directly or indirectly upon plants for the materials of their bodies; that is, either they are herbivorous, or they eat other animals which are herbivorous.

Contrariwise, any admissible hypothesis of progressive modification must be compatible with persistence without progression, through indefinite periods.

But to cut it short, that is to say, to be short, wee can not gather that any appearaunce or shew of euil, or any signe of watonnes or dissolutenes, was euer found in the daunses of holy men, but altogeather contrariwise, they therein behaued themselues with such honor, fear, and reuerence towardes God, the whole matter it selfe beyng accompanied, with so great honesty and sobernesse, as nothinge more.

8-12. "Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

THE TURBIT PIGEON.This variety bears a strong resemblance to the Jacobin, having a kind of frill in the fore part of its neck, occasioned by the breast-feathers lying contrariwise and standing straight out.

Joe, contrariwise, counted all this child's-play an interruption.

Contrariwise to the feeding of thyroid, removal of the thyroid of tadpoles will prevent their development into frogs.

The fittest remedie that I can finde Is this, to ease the torment of your minde: Perswade yourselves the great Apollo can As easily make a woman of a man As contrariwise he made a man of her.

Of course he was her father, she had been a ninny ever to dream contrariwise, or that it mattered.

In the case of the motor bicycle, the purchaser may, indeed, weigh the price fairly carefully against the pleasure and benefit, though contrariwise he may be a rich enough gentleman hardly to bother about this.

And truly, this doth be very contrary-seeming, only that you have seen my heart; and all indeed the more human, that it doth be so contrariwise to the brain-reason; and all to be desired, else did a man be no better than an ant or a weariful machine.

Adv. contrarily &c adj.; contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather; vice versa; on the other hand &c (in compensation) 30.

Contrariwise, the interference of Russia has crushed the press on the whole European continent.

Yet in his own house his fortune shall be contrariwise: for he alone of all the Danaan host, after that he shall have gathered up the bones of his dead son, shall by favour of the gods come back with unharmed folk to the wide streets of Abas.'

Contrariwise, no amount of spurring or lashing with a stout quirt availed to make her go ahead of her comrades.

Contrariwise, I could see how shells from the enemy crossed those shells in the air and curved downward to scatter their iron sprays among the Germans.

Rosalinde reads, anagrammatically, into Rose Daniel; for, according to Camden, "a letter may be doubled, or rejected, or contrariwise, if the sense fall aptly"; we thus get rid of the redundant e, and have a perfect anagram.

Since he had been in the trenches he had not seen a fight, hardly set eyes on a German, his view was bounded by mud and waterbut they would not believe him, they thought he was talking "contrariwise" as he did when he was a child.

I am myself happy in acknowledging the endearing appellation of "Mother," and I love all children, and regard them as priceless treasures, entrusted to the care and guidance of parents and teachers; with whom it rests in a great measure to render them blessings to their fellow-creatures, and happy themselves, or contrariwise.

It's something contrariwise to the course of nature, done by power of will, something what couldn't happen without being specially willed.

It's something contrariwise to the course of nature done by power of Will..." XXII.

The queen heard of this kind answer made by the king, and was not pleased at it; but afterwards, the truth being known, she judged contrariwise to what she, through false report, had imagined and thought."

On the 8th of March, 1572, she wrote to her son, "I find it necessary to negotiate quite contrariwise to what I had expected and what had been promised me; I have no liberty to speak to the king or my Lady Marguerite, only to the queen-mother, who treats me as if I were dirt. . . .

They can do favors, and contrariwise they can make trouble, and Lawyer Asche was hot under the collar about that window.

Tis a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but, contrariwise, should be balked by importunate affairs.