Which preposition to use with opposite
Then, the course of my journey was altered, and I began to move along their bases, until, all at once, I saw that I had come opposite to a vast rift, opening into the mountains.
The Giant, who was a good seven-footer, working up to seven and a half feet, as an engineer might say, with the help of his boots and helmet, was the exact opposite of the Dwarf in disposition.
The word simple comes from the Latin simplex, to indicate the least solemn form of office and it is the direct opposite in meaning to the term "double."
As we sat with our meerschaums, in the evening, speculating upon the chances of securing a bear, or a moose, before leaving the woods, a wolf lifted up his voice on the hill opposite as, and made the old forest ring again with his howling.
In time (supposing the race did not die out), there would be two classes of people utterly different and at variance with each othertwo opposites with no understanding or sympathy for each other.
Gotland is opposite on the other side, or right-hand; and afterwards the sea of Sillende lies many miles up in that country.
And he has appointed summer and winter, and abundance and scarcity, and virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole; and to each of us he has given a body, and parts of the body, and possessions, and companions.
"Phebe is very kind," she said, with quite the opposite from gratitude in her voice, "but I hate to be talked about beforehand.
About two-thirds of the seats were occupied; those to the right as we entered (that is, on the left of the dais at the end of the hall) by men, those opposite by women.
It is opposite at once to the precepts of the wise, and the practice of the good, to the original principles of virtue and the established maxims of policy.
Surely never in this world did love link together two souls more diametrically opposite than Mercy Philbrick's and Stephen White's.
It is that relation between opposites without which no external Motion would be possible, because there would be nowhere to move from, and nowhere to move to; and without which external Form would be impossible because there would be nothing to limit the diffusion of substance and bring it into shape.
Indigestion is opposite unto it, for want of natural heat.
What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rather what a noble simplification of language (beyond Tooke), resolving these supposed opposites into one clear, intelligible pronoun adjective!What near approaches doth he make to the primitive community,to the extent of one half of the principle at least!
The reason why those two spheres do not unite, is, because they are opposites; and an opposite acts upon an opposite like enemies, one of whom, burning with deadly hatred, furiously assaults the other, while the other is in no hatred, but only endeavours to defend himself.
I will just walk round to the police-station, I think, and speak to the constables who were on duty opposite during the night.
It will be noticed that the heck for the nearest mill is opposite about the 12th round of threads from the bobbin, whereas the heck for the second mill is about the same distance from the top.
On the fulgent spectacle, That neither passed away nor changed, I gazed Enrapt; but brightest things are wont to draw Sad opposites out of the inner heart, As even their pensive influence drew from mine.
Already, however, we are trenching upon that more intimate relationship of the great opposites under consideration which has been designated Rest in Motion.