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  • She and Flach had gone into hiding because they wanted to help Citizen Blue and the Adept Stile, rather than the Con - trary Citizens and the Adverse Adepts.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • "There's a warrant - maybe a rope - waitin 'there for Beauchamp Comber, on a charge of stealing a nigra wench con-trary to the Fugitive Slave Act. If that ain't enough, we could send you down the river to answer for the killin' in N'awlins that you didn't do."

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The Book had spells that were even better in the other frame than here, and the Adepts over there'the Con - trary Citizens-were getting very strong.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • The Con - trary Citizens preferred things as they had been before Stile started the great change: unbridled wealth and power to the ruling class, and human serfs dedicated to serving the will of the Citizens.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Even Boss McGinty was ignorant as to many things; for there was an official named the County Delegate, living at Hobson's Patch farther down the line, who had power over several different lodges which he wielded in a sudden and arbi - trary way.

    Chennai 2010

  • Divines prescribe a fit of sorrow to repentance: there goes indignation, anger, sorrow, hatred, into mine, passions of a con trary nature, which neither seem to suit with this action, nor my proper constitution.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Because the rights guaranteed by these documents, such as freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom from arbi-trary arrest, are such an inherent part of America's history and national character, we at times may take them for granted.

    Proclamation On Human Rights Day Week And Bill Of Rights Day Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000

  • From the looks of the room, it seemed as if I knew what I was doing, but con - trary to popular opinion, looks are almost always deceiving.

    Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997

  • "There's a warrant - maybe a rope - waitin 'there for Beauchamp Comber, on a charge of stealing a nigra wench con-trary to the Fugitive Slave Act. If that ain't enough, we could send you down the river to answer for the killin' in N'awlins that you didn't do."

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "There's a warrant - maybe a rope - waitin 'there for Beauchamp Comber, on a charge of stealing a nigra wench con-trary to the Fugitive Slave Act. If that ain't enough, we could send you down the river to answer for the killin' in N'awlins that you didn't do."

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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