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There came an opposing thought. [11]

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The French leaders, who had never heard of Indians who would fight in the open, were, in spite of great opposing numbers, in warrior mood. [11]
When she confessed what withheld her from doing so, he at first tried to convince her by opposing reasons, but usually strength to continue the interchange of thought soon failed him. [10]
All the rest were ciphers; all had lost, momentarily, their feelings of partisanship and were conscious only of these two intense, radiating, opposing centres of force; and no man, oddly enough, could say which was the stronger. [9]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
But throngs flocked to the camp of Materialism, for the trumpets of her leaders had a clearer, more confident sound than the lower and less readily understood opposing cries of the philosophers. [10]
Eva had little time, yet the sisters found an opportunity to confide many things to each other, though at first their father often interrupted them by opposing his younger daughter's intention of going to the Emperor as a supplicant. [10]
Not only all those who supported the Union ticket, so called, but a great majority of the opposing party also may be fairly claimed to entertain and to be actuated by the same purpose. [7]
Other questions had their opposing partisans in all localities of the country and in almost every family, so that no division of the Union could follow such without a separation of friends to quite as great an extent as that of opponents. [7]
Only two sounds; the happy clamor of the birds in the groves, and the muffled music of the Neckar, tumbling over the opposing dykes. [5]
They confine this term to actions done deliberately, after a victory over opposing desires, or when prompted by some exalted motive. [1]
That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram. [2]
There are over seventy newspapers in Illinois opposing Buchanan, only three or four of which support Mr. Fillmore, all the rest going for Fremont. [7]
I should almost say supernatural when I reflect how I have run across this man again and again, and always opposing him. [9]
And what Elizabeth said she meant; but in a life set in forests of complications and opposing interests the political overlapped the personal in her nature. [11]
The man who ought to be condemned isn't the man that doesn't understand what's going on, but the man who comes to understand and persists in opposing it. [9]
Nobody is opposing, or has opposed, the right of the people, when they form a constitution, to form it for themselves. [7]
It split into opposing sections the whole land over which was lowering the grim, though as yet unrecognizable, shadow of civil war. [4]
Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed. [12]
No greater proof of this can be needed than the effort to give princely entertainments in un-princely houses, where opposing streams of guests fight for progress in scant passages and on narrow stairways, and pack themselves in stifling rooms. [4]
The only sources of information bearing on the subject which were submitted to us were the letters, etc., recommending and opposing the various appointments made, and Mr. Wilton's verbal statements concerning the same. [7]
The opposing tides of battle must have blended their waves at this point, for portions of gray uniform were mingled with the "garments rolled in blood" torn from our own dead and wounded soldiers. [6]
We do not mention the fact of many of the Whigs opposing the convention system heretofore for the purpose of censuring them. [7]
But in this matter he possessed a certain self-confidence which arose from a just and righteous anger against the forces opposing him and a knowledge of their tactics. [9]
The splendidly mounted masses of Moslem soldiers swept round the north end of Genessaret, burning and destroying as they came, and pitched their camp in front of the opposing lines. [5]
Without opposing her lover's mother, she retired to her chamber and, weeping silently, spite of the earnest entreaties of the Sister of Charity, packed the few articles she had brought with her and prepared to leave the post maintained with so much difficulty. [10]
The opposing surface is not flat, but slopes away from the centerline like a boat's bow. [5]
I repeat, there is nobody opposing that proposition on principle. [7]
In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers. [2]
He was killed in war; killed in fair and legitimate war; killed in battle, as you might say; and yet he was as sincerely mourned by the opposing force as if he had been their brother. [5]
I agree that in opposing the Lecompton Constitution, so far as I can perceive, he was right. [7]
The dread of his very name, and the presence of the armed band of hangers-on who followed him alone prevented a resistance which must certainly have ended in the instant murder or mutilation of the opposing party. [5]
I am told he despairs of its success, on account of all the members from Morgan County opposing it. [7]
As the Democrats had put off their convention until the 29th of August, the Union party had, during the larger part of the summer, no opposing candidate and platform to attack, and the political campaign languished. [7]
There was one feature more common in Canada than in any other country; opposing candidates met on the same platform and fought their fight out in the hearing of those whom they were wooing. [11]
I could not fail to see that the controversy enlarged in the same proportion as the professed Union men there distinctly took sides in two opposing political parties. [7]
There were separate duties belonging to each character--not opposing each other; not impossible, but difficult to be reconciled. [14]
As far as deliberation, and the victory over opposing motives are concerned, animals may be seen doubting between opposed instincts, in rescuing their offspring or comrades from danger; yet their actions, though done for the good of others, are not called moral. [1]
For a moment David looked at the Three, the dead man and the two living men, and then suddenly turned to where the opposing forces were advancing. [11]
But in the case of man, who alone can with certainty be ranked as a moral being, actions of a certain class are called moral, whether performed deliberately, after a struggle with opposing motives, or impulsively through instinct, or from the effects of slowly-gained habit. [1]
There had long been a truce between the opposing forces, but according to the Guide-Book, Raynauld of Chatillon, Lord of Kerak, broke it by plundering a Damascus caravan, and refusing to give up either the merchants or their goods when Saladin demanded them. [5]
Soon the approving and opposing voices mingled in an actual conflict. [10]
So far as all that ground is concerned, the Judge is not sustaining popular sovereignty, but absolutely opposing it. [7]
There must be a test by which to separate the opposing elements, so as to build only from the sound; and that test is a sufficiently liberal one which accepts as sound whoever will make a sworn recantation of his former unsoundness. [7]
The author of "Old New Zealand" mentions a case where a victorious army could have followed up its advantage and exterminated the opposing army, but declined to do it; explaining naively that "if we did that, there couldn't be any more fighting. [5]

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