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Example sentences for "contrary opinion"

  • Yet the existence of eight or ten roads, which lead to this plateau, deserted for so many centuries, and some of which are in a state of preservation truly astonishing, ought to have led to a contrary opinion.

  • Cotta and the centurions of the first class earnestly maintained the contrary opinion.

  • From all parts, from the Rhine to the Scheldt, were announced preparations for war.

  • They imagine that the Romans are struck with terror, and, thinking it disgraceful to wait any longer the succour of the Germans, they cross the river and advance unhesitatingly upon unfavourable ground.

  • Humboldt is of a contrary opinion, and maintains that the temperature is from two to three degrees lower in shallow water; and he therefore is of opinion that the thermometer might prove of material use to navigators.

  • Lord Kaimes, Hume, and many other philosophers, have entertained a contrary opinion.

  • Mr. Gerry was quite of a contrary opinion & the old beaten ground about precipitation &c.

  • Mr. Gerry had been of a contrary opinion & we had yielded to him but this evening he consented that the letter should be prepared.

  • But if any are of a contrary Opinion, and will let me know, which in their Judgment are more unexceptionable Miracles, I will vouchsafe them an Examination.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and looked; attempt was; both nations; contrary direction; contrary opinion; contrary wind; contrary winds; deep meditation; feet and; full account; great towns; hundred pieces; less likely; make another; nervous matter; overflight and navigation permitted; passage through; passed several; servile work; when nearly; when they saw him; whole pepper; wide variety; without waiting; world where