108 Verbs to Use for the Word reversing

He was indeed not less anxious than Charles that the Burgundian army should suffer no reverse.

While with the old tigress their lines have been cast in not unpleasant places, they have seldom known hunger, and have experienced no reverses.

The Peace Treaty as outlined by Wilson would really have brought about a just peace; but we shall see how the actual result proved quite the reverse of what constituted a solemn pledge of the American people and of the Entente Powers.

Surely so sad a reverse, might well claim sympathy; but there remaineth to him one consolation, and it cheers him in the house of his pilgrimage.

If you find a plantation on which the overseer is kind, and does common justice to the laborer, you will find things going on wellif otherwise, the reverse.

Antony further failed in a sudden assault and subsequently met a reverse with his ships.

The proud Nebuchadnezzar whom she served was at last made to confess that there was a God to whom he was personally responsible; and he was encouraged to bear with dignity those sad reverses which humiliated his pride, and drank without complaint the dregs of that bitter cup which retributive justice held out in mercy before he died.

He had once had dealings with her which had turned out the reverse of satisfactory.

In fact, the pride and vainglory which led Caesar to make his triumphs more splendid and imposing than any former conqueror had ever enjoyed, caused him to overact his part so as to produce effects the reverse of his intentions.

"'What!' exclaimed he, with equal surprise, 'know ye not that this is the Palace of Illusion, where everything is inverted and appears the reverse of itself?

The queen felt the reverses keenly.

Time, however, has produced a sort of intelligence between news-writers and their readersand rejoicings, lamentations, praise, or censure, are, on particular occasions, understood to convey the reverse of what they express.

For in general he has no native force that is united and welded together, and at present, since he is expecting no reverse, he utterly lacks preparation.

" It is not pleasant to turn from this, and view the reverse of the picture.

The following items of expense in this latter period, along with high doctor's bills, may explain the reverse: for taking a negro from the guard-house, $5; for court costs in the case of a boy prosecuted for larceny, $9.26; jail fees of Cesar, $2.69; for the apprehension of a runaway, $5; paid Jones for trying to capture a negro, $5.

They would have demanded a reverse of it; and might they not in cooler moments have succeeded?

[Footnote: Who were probably at this point much fewer in number than the Americans; Butterfield says the reverse, but his account is untrustworthy on these matters.]

Such men may be said to be endowed with a double vision, an inward and an outward; the inward seeing not unfrequently the reverse of what is seen by the outward.

His remains were committed to their final resting-place in the burial ground of the Temple Church, and the staircase of his chambers is said to have been filled with mourners the reverse of domesticwomen without a home, without domesticity of any kind, with no friend but him they had come to weep for, outcasts of that great, solitary, wicked city, to whom he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable.

The slice to the right of the square blaze indicated the reverse.

Amongst the lords of Southern France several hearty patriots, such as John of Blois, Count of Perigord, and Arnold Amanieu, Sire d'Albret, of their own accord began the strife, and on the 1st of November, 1450, inflicted a somewhat severe reverse upon the English, near Blanquefort.

But in the Cabinet I do not think his position improved, rather the reverse.

From there they went forward and plunged into the woods again, defending themselves against the attacks, but endured no inconsiderable reverses in this very operation.

The cause of the Union had received some heavy reverses, and France had invited England and Russia to join her in intervening between the combatants.

He has, in fact, completely recovered his health, and lives a life totally the reverse of that which he led at Venice....

108 Verbs to Use for the Word  reversing