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And, when the chance offers, Eliza of the White Horse shall cook you a dinner to make your mouth water. Thus will Mr. Furneaux's dream come true, because dreams go by contraries!" Winter tried to persuade his mercurial-spirited friend to snatch a few hours' rest.
His eye strained off into the Ethiopian blackness, but could make neither heads nor tails of it. "Voices always go by contraries," he thought. "She's fifty-two and wears glasses." Aloud he said: "But please tell me quite frankly am I intruding?" "Not at all," said the lady, only that and nothing more. "Perhaps then you won't object if I find a seat?
We may love and fear at the same time and the same person; we pray in the Litany that we may love and dread God, the two being opposites, and thus the complements of one another; but to pray that we might love and hate would be as illogical as it would be impious, for these are contraries, and could no more co-exist together than white and black, hot and cold, in the same subject at the same time.
As some things go by contraries, the glimpse of Broussard made Anita dismount quickly from Pretty Maid and flit within doors to avoid the sight of him. Once indoors, Anita ran where she could catch a last look of Broussard's young figure, his cavalry cape thrown back, before he turned the corner and was gone. Colonel Fortescue, at the office window, returned a salute, without a smile, to Mrs.
As, for example, virtue and vice are contrary in one kind, so are good and evil. If one of the contraries of the first kind be consonant to one of those of the second, as virtue and goodness, for it is clear that virtue is good, so shall the other two contraries, which are evil and vice, have the same connection, for vice is evil.
"I for my own part know of only two exact contraries: institutions for teaching culture and institutions for teaching how to succeed in life. All our present institutions belong to the second class; but I am speaking only of the first." About two hours went by while the philosophically-minded couple chatted about such startling questions.
On toward the first of July he began to have some doubts if his improved weather-system was correct; he was convinced that it must work by contraries. So when Professor Jones asked him if it would be safe to attempt to have a display of fireworks on the night of the 5th, Bradley brought the improved system into play, and discovered that it promised rainy weather on that night.
I dreamed that I was arrested." "A good sign," said the Abbe Brigaud: "you know that dreams always go by contraries. All will go well." "Is there anything new?" asked D'Harmental. "And if there were, how would you receive it?" "I should be enchanted. A thing of this kind once undertaken, the sooner it is finished the better."
Silent do you remember the dream I repeated to you when you came to Washington? "'Oh, yes, said Gen. Silent, 'perfectly; and in that dream I was to be murdered as soon as the rebellion should be ended. But I do not feel alarmed about myself; dreams, you know, Mr. President, go by contraries.
However, as most things in life go by contraries, this Uncle Felix person turned out just the opposite. Within an hour of his arrival he was firmly established as friend and ally, yet so quickly and easily was this adjustment brought about that no one could say exactly how it happened.
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