If not, he proved the contrary to his own satisfaction by paying for his ticket from an imposing accumulation of French bank-notes.

For though some authorities maintain the contrary, it is but natural to suppose that when Abel brought firstlings of his flock, "and the fat thereof," as a sacrifice, the less dainty portions, not being oblations, were hardly likely to have been flung away as refuse.

I see in it the greatest peril, which menaces the peace of Europe to-day; not that I have the right to suppose that the Government of the Republic is disposed deliberately to trouble the peace, rather I believe the contrary; but the attitude that the Barthou Cabinet has taken up is, in my judgment, the determining cause of an excess of militaristic tendencies in Germany.

Nor, indeed, can any one rationally assert the contrary.

They say so: Bryant says the contrary.

Without doubt, she thought that if it were a question of gallantry, it could only be to my profit; she now knows the contrary.

The facts have shown exactly the contrary.

Sternly did the Don command the man to pay the lad's wages, and when the fellow promised to do so directly he got home, and the boy protested that he would surely never keep that promise, Don Quixote threatened the farmer, saying, "I am the valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, righter of wrongs, revenger and redresser of grievances; remember what you have promised and sworn, as you will answer the contrary at your peril."

For, if I am not deceived, A Play is supposed to be the work of the Poet, imitating or representing the conversation of several persons: and this I think to be as clear, as he thinks the contrary.

" "I will not affirm the contrary," said Eve, "for frivolity and pleasure are only too closely associated in ordinary minds.

"Irony is when one means the contrary of what is said.

Whatever might seem to suggest the contrary, would be explainable by some infiltration of more civilized beliefs.

The dreadful words had indeed produced the adequate effect, but not in the most common way, for we are to keep in view that it is not the most shrinking and sensitive natures that are always the readiest to faint; and there was, besides, the aforesaid conviction of impossibility which, grasping the mind by a certain force, deadened the ear to words implying the contrary.

The learned are to hold the true doctrine; the unlearned are to be taught its morally beneficial contrary.

And I am greatly surprised that Doctor Hodges should advise the contrary.

I think most of us have some interest in arguing the contrary.

But if another should come and make to himself another idea, different from Descartes's, of the thing, which yet with Descartes he calls by the same name body, and make his idea, which he expresses by the word body, to be of a thing that hath both extension and solidity together; he will as easily demonstrate, that there may be a vacuum or space without a body, as Descartes demonstrated the contrary.

This impressed me, for I should naturally have expected the contrary.

Now, I experience the contrary of all these; for I forget, mistake, err, go astray, lose the sight of truth and the love of virtue, I corrupt, I diminish.

" "I hope so, indeed," said Nizza, pausing; "but I fear the contrary.

All things that exist being particulars, it may perhaps be thought reasonable that words, which ought to be conformed to things, should be so too,I mean in their signification: but yet we find quite the contrary.

He pretends that Corneille described men as they should be, and Racine as they are; I held the contrary.

I shall get even with that lotand let no one imagine the contrary!"

It does not prove it to have been written after 1604, but, I think, strongly indicates the contrary.

Again, in a written communication, the same gentleman remarks:"There is not the slightest feeling of insecurityquite the contrary.