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• contrary winds
• And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me[...]
• We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way.
• The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture.
• a contrary disposition; a contrary child
• No contraries hold more antipathy / Than I and such a knave.
• If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
• I was advised not to contrary the king.
• The Athenians having left the enemie in their owne land, for to pass into Sicilie, had very ill successe, and were much contraried by fortune.
• thus wilfully sir Palomydes dyd bataille with yow / & as for hym sir I was not gretely aferd but I dred fore laūcelot that knew yow not / Madame said Palomydes ye maye saye what so ye wyll / I maye not contrary yow but by my knyghthode I knewe not sir Tristram
• I finde them everie one in his turne to have reason, although they contrary one another.
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