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Updated: June 29, 2025
The saloon-windows were dimmed with snow, so I went out on deck and braved the driving wind and snow on that inhospitable morning, for we were in the Lake of the Thousand Islands. Travellers have written and spoken so much of the beauty of this celebrated piece of water, that I expected to be disappointed; but, au contraire, I am almost inclined to write a rhapsody myself.
"C'est sa facon de tout voir, au contraire, ma mere," significantly returned Monsieur Paul, with his knowing smile. The mother's shrug answered the smile, as both mother and son walked in different directions across the sunlit court. I have always found the act of going away contagious. Who really enjoys being left behind, to mope in a corner of the world others have abandoned?
Along with ourselves and these fine people were judged gentlemen like the Trick Raincoat and the Fighting Sheeney. Au contraire. As I have previously remarked, the ways of God and of the good and great French Government are alike inscrutable.
My wife au contraire is quite unhampered by a husband's devotion. I have never made love to her yet. I have only protected her." He paused, and suddenly the old monkey-like look of mischief flashed back into his face. "I lay claim to the higher virtue, Jake," he said. "Heaven alone knows how long it will last.
Jane, au contraire, was curled up like a kitten, with one red sweater balled under her ruffled head and the other blue one tangled about her slim ankles.
When the workmen brought him home, he tried to reassure his family by telling them the story of a French Marquis, who fell from a balcony at Versailles, and who, as it was court politeness that nothing unfortunate should ever be mentioned in the King's presence, replied to His Majesty's inquiry if he wasn't hurt by his fall, "Tout au contraire, Sire" To all our inquiries whether he was hurt, my father replied, 'Tout au contraire, mes aimes.
Our Neighbours: which might lead you to expect a gossiping book, or at best something like Annals of my Parish tout au contraire; it is sketches of family life, a romantic family, admirably drawn some characters perhaps a little overstrained, but in the convulsions of the overstraining giving evidence of great strength beg, buy, or borrow it, if you can, and if not, envy us who have it.
Bäader's face wore its blandest smile. "On ze contraire, I have made for myself a most excellent repast; but if monsieur will consider ze dinner is a prix fixe, and monsieur can eat it all, or it shall remain for ze propriétaire. Zis, if monsieur will for one moment attend, will be stupid extraordinaire. I have made ze investigation, and discover zat ze post départ from Cancale in one hour.
So like her, so like, God only knows how like! ... Perhaps I think I know; but I do not do not know justly, fully how like! ... Si! si! es el vomito! yo lo conozco, Carmen! ... She must not die twice ... I died twice ... I am going to die again. She only once. Till the heavens be no more she will not rise ... Moi, au contraire, il faut que je me leve toujours!
Monro; while Fick, tout contraire, writes, "clumsy Ionisms are not common, and, as a rule, occur in these parts which on older grounds show themselves to be late interpolations."
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