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Sentences starting with contrast

Contrast these reports with the lively and faithful pictures of the French Assembly which are served to the Paris papers. [4]
Contrast the sense of taste, as a source of suggestive impressions, with that of smell. [6]
Contrast is a favorite trick of authors, and no greater contrast is to be had in Coniston than that between Cynthia Ware and Jethro Bass. [9]

Sentences ending with contrast

He knew the very best background for a poem of deep and refined sentiment and pathetic melancholy was one where great and satisfying merriment had prepared the spirit for the powerful contrast. [5]
After the poor unsatisfactory towers of Westminster Abbey, the two massive, noble, truly majestic towers of Notre Dame strike the traveller as a crushing contrast. [6]
The types of these two were in striking contrast. [9]
Not a few of his fellow-countrymen will feel the significance of the following contrast. [6]
The two men made a curious contrast. [9]
The French foliage is thin, spindling, sparse; the grass is thin and light in color--in contrast. [4]
Mr. Sweet, who is rather pudgy by contrast. [9]
The first member in a series of ideas stands in antithesis to the next, which either re-states the former one in a new form or sets it in a clearer light by suggesting some contrast. [10]
One who heard him swear now and then, in a calm, deliberate way,--at the cook and the porter,-- would have thought the matters in strange contrast. [11]
As he pictured her in the dining room behind Mr. Crewe's silver and cut glass and flowers, it was undoubtedly natural that he should wonder whether she were thinking of him in the Widow Peasley's lamp-lit cottage, and he smiled at the contrast. [9]

Short sentences using contrast

It is not contrast altogether. [4]
They were indeed a contrast. [9]

Sentences containing contrast two or more times

The contrast between the spirit of the city and the city's architecture is like the contrast between waking and sleep. [5]
The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night. [5]

More example sentences with the word contrast in them

Now a few words in regard to these extracts from speeches of mine which Judge Douglas has read to you, and which he supposes are in very great contrast to each other. [7]
A striking contrast with what happened when Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon, and Spenser, and Raleigh, and the other distinguished literary folk of Shakespeare's time passed from life! [5]
The stout fellows with their clubs look as if they might do service; but what a contrast they are to the Paris sergents de ville! [4]
He inspired her with an instinctive fear; and she tried to imagine, in contrast, the erect and soldierly figure of General Chiltern performing the same office. [9]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
That living quiet which descends upon a house when the midday meal and work are done came suddenly home to her, in contrast to the turmoil in her mind and being. [11]
The deep blush which crimsoned Euthymia's cheek at Lurida's suggestion was in a strange contrast to her own undisturbed expression. [6]
The visitors confessed when they landed that the Pier was a contrast to Newport. [4]
When I contrast what I have achieved in my measurably brief life with what he has achieved in his possibly briefer one, the effect is to sweep utterly away the ten-story edifice of my own self-appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar. [5]
A contrast they were, these buckskin-clad pioneers, to the ill-assorted humanity they watched, absorbed in struggles for the very lands they had won. [9]
It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. [5]
What that life was, however, she had only the dimmest comprehension, and it was only in the last two years, since she was sixteen, that she began to understand it, and that mainly in contrast to her own guarded life. [4]
What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees! [4]
After all, it was the contrast between his life and hers. [9]
The observant stranger was sure to be puzzled by the contrast of this realistic and uncouth exterior with the internal fineness, amounting to refinement and culture, that shone through it all. [4]
And yet it was remembered that he had been a frank, open-hearted friend, kind to his family, and generous in contrast with some of his close-fisted contemporaries. [4]
A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
But, what was very odd, that gentleman apparently thought the contrast was to the advantage of this poor, dear Helen. [6]
It was not until I had walked the length of the block that I began to realize what a shock my presence there must have been to him, with his head full of the contrast between this visit and my former attitude. [9]
So the Catachoobee University had its splendid new building--as great a contrast to the shanties from which its pupils came as is the Capitol at Washington to the huts of a third of its population. [4]
The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. [2]
She had a touch of the vixen--an impetuous, loving, forceful mademoiselle, in marked contrast to the rather ascetic Francois, whose ways were more refined than his origin might seem to warrant. [11]
The contrast was too great --the horror of it too great for her to speak of. [9]
I have been told to get as near the shade as I could; and so I compare and contrast, till the whole thing seems to me about of one color. [4]
A greater contrast to the Vicomte than Mr. Howard Spence would have been difficult to find. [9]
What a contrast to the family sort of life at the White Sulphur! [4]
In marked contrast to the earnestness of young Mr. Vane, who then rested, Mr. Billings treated the affair from the standpoint of a man of large practice who usually has more weighty matters to attend to. [9]
And it came to her suddenly, with all the shock of a great contrast, with what different eyes she had looked upon him five years before at Silverdale. [9]
May I venture to contrast youth and experience in medical practice, something in the way the man painted the lion, that is, the lion under? [3]
It is interesting to contrast the funeral ceremonies of the Princess Victoria with those of her noted ancestor Kamehameha the Conqueror, who died fifty years ago--in 1819, the year before the first missionaries came. [5]
The water appears to be as deep as the roof is high, and is of a light, beautiful blue, in contrast with the deep blue of the bay. [4]
What a contrast to "Steeltown" with its smells and sickening summer heat, to the shanty where Mrs. Scherer took boarders and bent over the wash-tub! [9]
At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's. [2]
They were a thousand years old when this church was new, and then the contrast must have been ghastly--if Justinian's architects did not trim them any. [5]
It was well-formed, though somewhat narrow, and its clear fairness formed a sharp contrast to his sunburnt face. [10]
Hermon had noticed this same contrast in his own person. [10]
Many critics consider this leather too cold in tone; but I consider this its highest merit, since it was evidently made so to emphasize by contrast the impassioned fervor of the hasp. [5]
Hermon remembered all this himself, yet, with an imperious curtness in marked contrast to his usual pleasant manner to this worthy servant, he hoarsely commanded him to bring Chello to him early the next morning, and then again relapsed into his solitary meditations. [10]
What a contrast, this frantic luxuriance of vegetation, with the arid plains of India; these architecturally picturesque crags and knobs and miniature mountains, with the monotony of the Indian dead-levels. [5]
In contrast with this foreigner, confronting him, a young lieutenant stood motionless, his head cocked on one side, his hand grasping the club held a little behind him, his glance meeting the other's squarely, but with a different quality of defiance. [9]
I cannot but think how we should all enjoy it at home, and what a contrast is here! [5]
There ain't a thing you can mention that is happiness in its own self--it's only so by contrast with the other thing. [5]
The contrast between them and the serene eye and undisturbed brow of the sage was a sight for all beholders. [6]
Then in contrast, the warmth, brightness, and bravery on the face of the lad in blue and gold who struck aside the descending blade and caught her up in his arms; and she had nestled there--in those arms of Philip d'Avranche. [11]
The contrast in the temperament of the two friends--the one sensitive and irritable, and the other always cool and good-natured--only increased their mutual attachment to each other, and Motley's dependence upon Stackpole. [6]
Coming out of the sweet sanity of the Bolton household, this was by contrast the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive. [5]
But that evening the spacious hotel, luxurious, perfectly warmed, and well lighted, crowded with an agreeable if not a brilliant company--for Mr. King noted the fact that none of the gentlemen dressed for dinner--seemed all the more pleasant for the contrast with the weather outside. [4]
The silence in the room was so deep that all outside sounds seemed exaggerated by contrast with it. [5]
In contrast to the light brown of the hair was the very dark brown of the eyes and the still darker brown of the eyelashes. [11]
Let us contrast the last mentioned of these great piles with the obelisk as the Egyptian conceived and executed it. [6]
In the rain the grass does not brighten as you think it ought to, and it is only when the rain turns to snow that you see any decided green color by contrast with the white. [4]
The face shone, the eyes burned, and the piquancy of the contrast between the soft illuminating whiteness of the skin and the flame in the eyes had fascinated many more than Ingolby. [11]
Full striking was the difference; and the more striking because it was not the rough contrast of good and evil, but the more subtle opposition, the more delicate diversity of different kinds of good. [14]
Those who remember the Dartmouth College of that day cannot help smiling at the thought of the contrast in the way of thinking between the speaker and the larger part, or at least the older part, of his audience. [6]
The rest of the comical ornaments and the thought of the nimble adventurer, who must have climbed up to fasten them, formed a glaring and offensive contrast to the caricature of the gallows. [10]
The cottonwoods or the alfalfa fields were not in sight, nor was there any rock or ridge or cedar to lend contrast to the monotony. [13]
In contrast to the agitation I felt rising within me, she was extraordinarily calm, unbelievably so. [9]
The form was that of a man, miserably clad and begrimed with smoke, which, perhaps by its contrast with the natural colour of his skin, made him look paler than he really was. [12]
The other reason that I can see is that you have called me to show by way of contrast what education can accomplish if administered in the right sort of doses. [5]
It may be that he was deep, and only added the singing to his operas for the sake of the contrast it would make with the music. [5]
Through the cloud that darkened her aspect, now and then a ray would steal forth, which, like the smile of stern and solemn people, was all the more impressive from its contrast with the expression she wore habitually. [6]
She seemed taller than ever, and very beautiful in her veil and white satin gown and the diamonds Ham had given her; very much mistress of herself, quite a contrast to Ham, who made no secret of his elation. [9]
It made too strong a contrast to his gloomy soul, and it even seemed as though the course of the sun, in its beaming, unattainably lofty path, mocked the hapless, painful obstruction to his own motion. [10]
He was a striking contrast in type to his square-cut and vigorous brother-in-law; very thin, with slightly protruding eyes the color of the faded blue glaze of ancient pottery, and yet humorous. [9]
In her sensitive state she tried to evade the contrast thus suddenly presented to her between Peter and the man she had promised, that very morning, to marry. [9]
She spied him standing there; and in her leisurely approach a strange conceit of reincarnation possessed her, and she smiled at the contrast thus summoned up. [9]
The fact of spiritualization produces results in striking contrast to the farce of materialization: the one produces the results of chastity and purity, the other the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity. [5]
One may with sorrow contrast this with the architecture of New Orleans. [5]
And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh. [5]
Yet there was something between them which had its authority over their lives, overcoming even that maiden modesty which was in contrast to the bold, physical thing she had done in running the Carillon Rapids those centuries ago when she was young and glad-wistfully glad. [11]
As she did so she was sharply conscious of the contrast between her visitor and Ian Stafford in outward appearance. [11]
The place was so remote, so peaceful in contrast to the city I had left, which had become intolerable. [9]
It was in singular contrast to the snapping fire which had been theirs all the days of his life till now--the snapping fire of action, will and design. [11]
At the tables silent couples and restrained family parties, no hilarity, little talking; and what a contrast this was to the happy-go-lucky service and jollity of the White Sulphur! [4]
In every way she formed a striking contrast to her friend, Miss Vincent. [6]
Of course I shall choose extreme cases to illustrate the contrast between them. [6]
Residences all along, set in the midst of green lawns with shrubs and generally one or two intensely red outbursts of poinsettia--the flaming splotch of blinding red a stunning contrast with the world of surrounding green. [5]
He did not seem to appreciate who his visitor was, at any rate gave no sign of so doing, and the chief interest of the scene was the wide contrast between these leaders of spiritual and of material forces. [6]
And unfortunately the same note of nature suggested to Mr. Lyon the contrast of this artificial piece of loveliness with the domestic life of which he dreamed. [4]
If one would realize how colossal it is, and of what dignity and majesty, let him contrast it with the purposes and objects of the Crusades, the siege of York, the War of the Roses, and other historic comedies of that sort and size. [5]
Haworth Parsonage is rather a contrast, yet even Haworth Parsonage does not look gloomy in this bright summer weather; it is somewhat still, but with the windows open I can hear a bird or two singing on certain thorn-trees in the garden. [14]
The sight of poor Garvin's white and wasted features, the terrible contrast between this miserable tenement and the palace with its unseen pictures and porcelains and tapestries, brought home to him with indescribable poignancy his own predicament. [9]
He was a pleasant contrast to those reticent Mormons. [5]
By contrast, these pleasant cars call to mind the branch-road cars at Maryborough, Australia, and the passengers' talk about the branch-road and the hotel. [5]
The stillness that pervaded the place, when Hendon found himself once more in the stocks, was in strong contrast with the insulting clamour which had prevailed there so little a while before. [5]
This statement is perhaps worth more than pages of description as to the character of Roan, and its contrast to Mount Washington. [4]
Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side. [5]
He raised it once, twice, and, high as she was above him, she could see how sharp the contrast was between the yellow whites of his eyes and the swarthy color of his face. [10]
This contrast weighed on and yet cheered him while she sang. [2]
People, young or old, are wonderfully different, if we contrast extremes in pairs. [6]
The tender sap of youth was in this glowing and alert new world, and, by sudden contrast with the prison walls which he had just left behind, the earth seemed recreated, unfamiliar, compelling and companionable. [11]
Blocking the end of the street, in stern contrast, was the huge Clarendon Mill with its sinister brick pillars running up the six stories between the glass. [9]
He formed something of a contrast to the pale theological student. [5]
She struck an odd note here, presented a strange contrast to Janet's friend from Silliston, with his rough suit and fine but rugged features. [9]
Indeed, the main object of a German fair seems to be to have a good time and in this it is in marked contrast with American fairs. [4]
Maybe he did not quite dwarf him, but at any rate the contrast was quite striking. [5]
But this is not all, nor the most striking thing, nor the greatest contrast to the empires of Rome and of Spain. [4]
Here, as at Newport, is cottage life, but the contrast of the two places is immense. [4]
There is a nearly similar contrast between the Malays and the Papuans (4. [1]

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