" In contrast to all this primeval elaboration is the simple, common-sense rule: Do not buy the trimmings, make the butcher trim meat before weighing, insist that soap-making shall not be brought back to defile the home, but remain where it belongs, a trade in which the workers can be protected by law, and its malodorousness brought under regulation.

It was in contrast to these officials that he painted the ideal times of Kings Wan and Woo.

Becket made Chancellor Elevated to the See of Canterbury Dignity of an archbishop of Canterbury Lanfranc Anselm Theobald Becket in contrast His ascetic habits as priest His high-church principles Upholds the spiritual courts Defends the privileges of his order Conflict with the king Constitutions of Clarendon Persecution of Becket He yields at first to the king

" The expressive eyes, that were gazing wistfully into hers while she spoke, at once assumed that startled, melancholy look, strangely in contrast with their laughing shape.

The temptation was great, to one so young, at times to put her graces in contrast to his uncouthness; to be seen to lead him who had a right to lead her; and, though we may regret, we can not greatly wonder, that she had not always steadiness to resist it.

If you would see this in concrete form, read the Chanson de Roland, the French national epic (which the Normans first put into literary form), in contrast with Beowulf, which voices the Saxon's thought and feeling before the profound mystery of human life.

(2) In contrast with the hopefulness and vigor of Elizabethan writings, much of the literature of this period is somber in character; it saddens rather than inspires us.

In contrast with her life of cheerful self-abnegation, ours seemed selfish, meaningless, and empty.

It seems that in contrast to reflexes and instincts which have prearranged bodily means of expression, the impulses must be subjected to a long period of training and education before they are capable of being controlled and transformed into that voluntary movement which is sometimes called will power.

In contrast Judith's beautiful countenance seemed carved out of some very hard and indestructible stone.

Virginiathe hills and the streams of my birth-place; the kind and hospitable home; the gentle-hearted sisters, sweetening with their sympathy the sorrows of the slavemy wifemy childrenall that had thus far made up my happiness, rose in contrast with my present condition.

The wide-open eyes, so dark with terror and in contrast with the stark paleness of her face, the lips that trembled so piteously, the slender, girlish figure so helpless to their depraved desires moved them not at all.

But when John Brown saw us coming in so timidly, he turned to us with a smile so benign and beautiful and so greatly in contrast to what we had pictured him, that it was a transition.

Another figure struck me, not so much as singular in itself, as in contrast with those around.

In contrast with the foregoing measures for preventing the growth of these bacilli is the striking fact that they are readily killed by drying.

When you accept this beatific vision of what is, in contrast with what goes on, you feel as if you had fulfilled an intellectual duty.

The fewness and the comparative simplicity of the instincts in the higher animals are remarkable in contrast with those of the lower animals.

In contrast with this picture, and as a gorgeous specimen of the Venetian style of treatment, we may turn to the "Marriage at Cana" in the Louvre, originally painted to cover one side of the refectory of the convent of San Giorgio Maggiore at Venice, whence it was carried off by the French in 1796.

Yolanda and Twonette were in ecstasy at the mountain views, which were so vividly in contrast with the lowlands of Burgundy.

Nearly every idea which we have suggests one that is similar to it or in contrast with it.

" Chapter VII The Return of Waring The interior of the little desert hotel at Stacey, Arizona, atoned for its bleached and weather-worn exterior by a refreshing neatness that was almost startling in contrast to the warped board front with its painted sign scaled by the sun.

Her dark wavy tresses were in contrast with his straight black hair; her eyes were not his; her stature was greater than his.

CHICHEVACHE, a monster fabled to feed on good women, and starved, from the scarcity of them, to skin and bone, in contrast with another called Bicorn, that fed on good men, who are more plentiful, and was fat and plump.

The strange hush in the air that he had noticed beforea calm so inconsistent with that hour and the season as to seem portentousbecame more marked in contrast to the feverish rush of the turbulent watercourse.

Immediately after, hard by I shook hands with Meade, the towering stately victor of Gettysburg in the full uniform of a corps commander, in contrast indeed to the slight, plainly-dressed philosopher.