As he said this, he shifted his position slightly in order to observe the figure of a bearded man that reclined on his elbow almost opposite them, gazing straight into the changing flames.
But I had rather make a mistake by being too generous than to make one in the opposite direction.
A moment later a horseman shot past the opposite corner of the building and turned to the left.
A door at the opposite end of the room, and directly behind the back of the desperado, suddenly and silently opened.
Brad had been placed in a chair opposite Nadia, much to his satisfaction, as it gave him an opportunity to watch her mobile, changing features.
Dick dropped barely in time, for through the air whizzed a knife, cast with great precision, and with such force that it clanged against the wall of the opposite house, dropping back with a splash into the water.
And Ed limped over to the table and resumed his seat opposite me.
She sat down at the opposite side of the table before she replied.
Unfortunately, it had the very opposite effect to that which Betty intended; for there seemed to be at once established between these two some terrible affinity in the crime, which made it more horrible.
And in the opposite Parallel Dd, the contrary happens.
But if the Ratio of Refraction m to n be as 2 to 1, the Focus falls on the opposite Surface of the Sphere; but if it be of greater Inequality it falls within.
Mary's; andopposite was Le Glomery Lane (the Vicus Glomeriae).
Pembroke stands opposite Peterhouse and several hostels were destroyed to make room for it.
Their house was on a messuage purchased by them "opposite the chapel of S.
The lodge of Peterhouse is on the opposite side of Trumpington Street, and is the only example of a lodge outside the college precincts in the university.
The Granta and Ouse have a history in every sense the opposite of this.
Here am I, miserable sinner, right opposite your righteous and much enduring spouse; a little lower our kind host, that pattern of conjugal meekness and resignation.
The shrubby, variegated shore of Posilipo drew my attention to the opposite side of the bay.
The whole party, it seems, were returned from a pilgrimage to some saint's nest or other on the opposite shore of the Tagus.
Beyond rises a group of mountains; oppositeto which a plain presents itself, decked with all the variety of meads and thickets, olive-grounds and vineyards.
I sat down opposite to the door which fronted the unfathomable gulph; beyond appeared the sea, of a deep cerulean, foaming with waves.
Glancing my eyes athwart the sea, I fixed them on the rock of Circe, which lies right opposite to Terracina, joined to the continent by a very narrow strip of land, and appearing like an island.
Opposite to which, at the end of a green alley, you discover an oval basin, and in the midst of it an antique statue full of that graceful languor so peculiarly Grecian.
Next day I was engaged by a very opposite scene, though much against my will.
Opposite this magnificent range appears another line of palaces, whose architecture, though far removed from the Grecian elegance of Sansovino, impresses veneration, and completes the pomp of the view.
Marialva alone, who took his station opposite her Majesty, seemed to preserve his ease and cheerfulness.
We could now but faintly discover the opposite mountains, veined with silver rills, when we came once more to the banks of the Inn.
No sooner had I lost sight of the benevolent hermit than I started up, and pursued my path with my former agility, till I came to the edge of a woody dell, that divided the meadow on which I was running from the opposite promontory.
Divide with either of the above parts of weight, the number of lights opposite to their hours, and the product will be the number of lights burning for the same number of hours.
And while you are refusing to entertain the objectionable guest you must be sure to grow a desire of an entirely opposite nature--a desire directly opposed to the one you are starving to death.
Picture the opposite desire, and think of it often.
If you find yourself in possession of desires that you feel are hurtful to you, you may rid yourself of them by deliberately starving them to death, and at the same time growing opposite desires.
On the opposite curve there was a girl with a bird on her finger.
My dear West," said Sir Creighton Severn when after church the next day, he found himself seated opposite to the new Minister of the Annexation Department in Mr. West's library.
No, I'm going in just the opposite direction," said Mr. Galmyn.
When, however, one gotopposite the door and felt the warm breath of the perfect evening upon one's face no suggestion that a wrap was needed was heard.
The Catholic Church has pursued the opposite policy, and presents the most notable instance of its successful prosecution.
Some of them are thereupon wafted across to lead pleasant lives on the opposite side, others are drowned in the stream, or beaten to atoms with a club.
The list of names on the opposite side is headed by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and embraces the great majority of writers and public teachers, down to the present day.
But the results of his researches continued to point in the opposite direction, and at last his earnest devotion to truth compelled him to adopt a theory the soundness of whose construction seemed to be no longer questionable.
The influence of Christianity upon the position of women, was twofold, and in opposite directions.
Only in her private life, in that gorgeous suite of apartments on the opposite side of the palace, did she give way to her own bitter unhappiness and blank despair.
Excellency the Minister, when, outside the palace, he caused them both to enter his carriage and was driving them to his own fine house on the opposite side of the capital.
She went with him to the police-office on the opposite side of the great station, and there gave, as far as she was able, a description of some of the stolen jewels.
He watched her graceful figure out of sight, then sighed, and turned away in theopposite direction.
Pedro contemplated the opposite wall, taking occasional puffs from his cigarette.
The Red Bone men opposite must rely on their ears alone hereafter, for they could not see through this darkness.
The archbishop (as may be supposed) sent notes favourable to the tribunal; those of all the others were of quite an opposite nature.
She got out of the hammock and came to lean, with her hands behind her, against the opposite porch post.
But you know the big bend opposite the Quadjenai Hills; the river has built that bend out of its own washings, and the bulletin over at the Spot-Light office says that the entire peninsula is one huge bank of gold-bearing gravel.
Brouillard took the opposite chair and was grimly amused at the length of time that elapsed before Massingale realized his presence.
The "caucus" was a knot of excited men blocking the sidewalk in front of Garner's real-estate office on the opposite side of the street.
Somebody told me that the corner opposite Poodles's was bought and sold three times within a single hour and that each time the price was doubled.
If Caulaincourt is compromised, there is no great harm in that; indeed, it will only make him serve me all the better, and the opposite party will henceforth forgive him for being a gentleman.
Bonaparte reclined on a sofa near him; I was sitting opposite him, and M.
The King and Queen sat on a splendid throne, opposite to the judges and the whole council.
He had scarcely finished speaking when there stood in front of him, exactly opposite the king's palace, a castle built precisely as he had ordered.
By this time the King had arrived opposite the castle, and had a strong wish to go into it.
So taking his bow and arrow, which he always carried, he shot the Eagle dead, and the Raven, delighted, perched in safety on an opposite tree.
The cat was originally the property of a neighbour of my friend, whose house was on the opposite side of the street, and about thirty yards off.
Opposite to him was a wide green expanse dotted with white patches of geese.
They enter the Mystic Gallery, and find themselves in a dim passage, opposite a partitioned compartment, in which is a glass case, supported on four pedestals, with a silver crescent at the back.
It, however, contained a piano; and a little table on which a typewriter stood amidst a litter of papers occupied the oppositeside of it.
Agatha was conscious that Sally's eyes were fixed upon her, and that Mrs. Hastings was watching them all with quiet amusement, but she was a little astonished when the girl suggestively moved some wraps from the seat opposite her.
Then she moved away, and Agatha who sat down opposite Sally looked at her quietly.
Then they hove her to, and when the wind fell light brought her round and crept back slowly upon the opposite tack.
Hull and other officers, to Fort Erie opposite Buffalo.
We pased through Queenstown and opposite to the town was two or three hundred American Troops was stationed.
Fort George directlyopposite Fort Niagara which was on American territory and garrisoned by American troops.
Miller of the American army in a letter to his wife says: "As we were crossing the river we saw two British officers ride up very fast opposite where we intended landing, but they went back faster than they came.
The white light from the electric signopposite created a pallor in the room that enveloped her like a veil.
Chin cupped in hand, Lilly stared out into a back yard that was filled with the tulle of winding mist, the lighted rear windows of the houses opposite blurry, as if seen through tears.
Why, I played Lady Macbeth opposite Claude Melrose when he was making thirty dollars a week in Fredericksburg Stock.
Directly opposite the dusty, unmade street, she could see her parents' home standing unprotected except for one sapling maple, the sun already pressing against the drawn shades.
In a Pullman, her bags on the seat opposite and her hands locked so that her finger nails bit in, sat Lilly, gazing out over the moving landscape of dirty, uneven fringe of city.
It carried the flame of the candle in the opposite direction.
He had drawn up a stool and sat opposite my father, with his elbows on his knees.
At this moment I became conscious that a door opposite me was open and the curtain drawn a little way back.
Then I went and hid it in a little blind window of the tower opposite the foot of the ladder which led to my father's room.
I find that my feeling is the exact opposite of his in every way.
He was leaning forwards in his chair, and Maud was sitting opposite him.
They retreated under a heavy fire, leaving nearly half their number dead or wounded in the river and on the opposite shore.
But about noon General McClellan with his staff, including the French princes, came upon the scene, and ordered General Smith to assault and capture the rebel works on the opposite bank.
As he did so his eyes swept theopposite of the Piazza, and he saw there, watching them, Harriet.
Chapter 3 Opposite the Volterra gate of Monteriano, outside the city, is a very respectable white-washed mud wall, with a coping of red crinkled tiles to keep it from dissolution.
He did not follow her long, for this was the Volterra gate, and the house was exactly opposite to it.
Monteriano was sad without her; the rain was thickening; the scraps of Donizetti floated tunelessly out of the wineshops, and of the great tower opposite he could only see the base, fresh papered with the advertisements of quacks.
But he did not want to see it opposite him at dinner.
I had already noticed this inscription upon the door-posts of a house in the Strand, directly opposite to where I had my own excellent lodgings.
On each side of the rustic seat there was a single footstep, deeply indented among the leaves, as if two men had sprung suddenly from opposite directions to a common point.
The down stroke represents the body, and the horizontal bar at top the singular transverse head, at the opposite extremes of which two very salient, yellow eyes are situated, commanding from their position an extensive field of vision.
It is neither situated directly opposite to the fingers, nor in the same plane with them, but obliquely, that it may be brought at pleasure to bear on them all, or on each finger separately.
If the French system of espionage, which is now a constituent of society in Louis Napoleon’s dominions, were in vogue here, we are sure that the index of the chief of police would bear opposite to the name of each widow the word “dangerous!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
