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Sentences starting with opposite

Opposite was the village of Hogamah. [4]
Opposite her, at the other end, Rev. [6]
Opposite Davenport is the flourishing town of Rock Island, which lies at the foot of the Upper Rapids. [5]
Opposite to the tent stands were erected for the Council, the patrician families, and the other ladies and gentlemen whom the city had invited to the festival. [10]
Opposite stands another successful imitation of the Grecian style of architecture,--a building with a Corinthian porch, also of white marble. [4]
Opposite to Pharaoh, squatting in a circle on the floor, were the king's councillors and interpreters, each adorned with an ostrich plume. [10]
Opposite to him sat the ladies, and exactly in front of him, a delight to his eyes, Bent-Anat and Nefert. [10]
Opposite to him rose a heap of loose straw, beneath which something stirred from time to time, and from which at short intervals a slight cough was heard. [10]
Opposite him was Mr. Nicholas Temple, in the act of playing the ace of spades. [9]
Opposite the Clarendon Mill on the corner of East Street was a provision store with stands of fruit and vegetables encroaching on the pavement. [9]

Sentences ending with opposite

Writing of his work on the Adirondacks, he says, "If I should ever live to get this wonderful thing written, I expect it will show one thing, if no more; and that is, that every thing has an opposite. [4]
He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
In the autumn, when the fruit was ripening, she left the gate open, though all her neighbours did the opposite. [10]
At that instant Trafford saw smoke issuing from a spot on the mountain opposite. [11]
Twice he paused to look behind him, and when he reached the corner of the street he stopped for some time to survey the Governor's house opposite. [9]
She may mean to do one thing and do the complete opposite. [11]
And Hodder, following the sound, looked out across the grimy yard--to a window in the apartment house opposite. [9]
She must cross the Slidebrook Valley if possible, and gain the mountain opposite. [4]
He moved from the robber nest into the rich Eysvogel house opposite. [10]
With this purpose she slipped out again, and crossing the road, sat down upon a door-step just opposite. [12]

Short sentences using opposite

Lobes of opposite wing-covers. [1]
The little house opposite! [9]
Richard sat opposite her. [11]
The Captain sat down opposite. [9]
It must be directly opposite. [10]

Sentences containing opposite two or more times

The realm of the real is spiritual; the opposite of Spirit is matter; and the opposite of the real is unreal or material. [5]
Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic (pun not intended), then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg and begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. [5]

More example sentences with the word opposite in them

How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
And that, if you and I happen to be on opposite sides, it won't make any difference as far as my feelings are concerned. [9]
And if he would take her forth, give me alarm in the room opposite yonder door, and stay them, and--" "Stay them, holy Mother, at the price of my life. [11]
True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
Pretty Elspet Zohrer, with whom she had contended for the recruiting officer, Pyramus Kogel, was standing opposite to her, by her partner's side, in the same row with charming little Mietz Schiltl, Anne Mirl Woller, her cousin, Marg Thun, and the others. [10]
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. [7]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
How could the wind have set one torch in the place of another, and moved lights or lanterns in a direction opposite to its violent course? [10]
As one to whom it is vouchsafed to stand and gaze at some great prodigy, so Pentaur had stood opposite the royal maiden, uneasy and yet fascinated, agitated, yet with secretly uplifted soul. [10]
This was Diodoros, who, while Alexander was giving his directions to the charioteer, had, under cover of the darkness, sprung into the vehicle from the opposite side. [10]
Most of those who were out and about were going in the opposite direction; they meant to await the grand reception of Caracalla at the eastern end of the city, on his way from the Kanopic Gate to the Gate of the Sun. [10]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
And Boemund Altrosen, who stood opposite to her, leaning against one of the pillars which supported the arched ceiling of the room, how came he here? [10]
And the woman who sat opposite him seemed, like one of her own nectarines, to be the fruit that crowned it all. [9]
The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. [5]
The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
I felt very weak indeed (though of a tolerably robust habit) as we came opposite the head of this path on that morning. [6]
The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table. [2]
The pope's choir was stationed in a gallery there opposite the high altar. [4]
A Government boat was hastening in to the bank, almost opposite her house. [11]
Not a soul was abroad in the midday heat, and the windows of the long house opposite were sightless. [9]
In Byron it was a mood, and he might have said just the opposite thing the next day, as he did in his two descriptions of the Venus de' Medici. [6]
And so we walked through and on to the little street beyond, and never a word from the captain until we came opposite the sign of the Hurcheon. [9]
She and her virgins ran to these flames, while Horus led the youths to battle against Typhon on the opposite shore. [10]
There is a very opposite class of persons whom anything in the nature of a joke perplexes, troubles, and even sometimes irritates, seeming to make them think they are trifled with, if not insulted. [6]
His Majesty usually uttered exactly the opposite of his real opinions, and therefore, in the outline of his abdication speech, he twice emphasized how great a debt of gratitude Don Philip owed him for the Heritage which while still alive he bequeathed to him. [10]
The stool, which usually stood on a wooden trestle opposite to it, now occupied a place before the table bearing the flagon of wine, and was intended for Barbara. [10]
A smile played upon her lips as she perceived young Hermas, who had already been for some time leaning motionless against the wall of the house opposite, and devouring with his gaze the figure of the beautiful young woman. [10]
Lawless came out upon a ledge of rock opposite the camp, a gulch lying between. [11]
We were bound up the Niederwald, the mountain opposite Bingen, whose noble crown of forest attracted us. [4]
They put it up opposite to my bed. [10]
To-day she summoned up her courage, stood opposite to it, and gazed steadily at the youthful features of the woman, with whom Peter had been happy. [10]
He came down until he was opposite the spot where his English picket was posted, and then he halted and surveyed his ground. [11]
He drifted on until he came opposite Charlemagne's tavern. [11]
When his eyes unclosed, day had come again, and he saw the rim of the opposite wall tipped with the gold of sunrise. [13]
The stranger spat twice, regarded Mr. Brice pityingly, and finally led him in silence past the picket fence and the New England-looking meeting-house opposite until they came to the great square on which the State House squatted. [9]
The opposite counsel tried to ridicule him out of his position, and did not succeed. [5]
She also glanced toward the richly decorated portal of St. Martin's Church, standing diagonally opposite to the sedan chair, and tried to look up to the steeple, which was higher than almost any other in the world. [10]
It was interesting to watch the groups under the locusts, to see the management of the ferry, the mounting and dismounting of the riding-parties, and to study the colors on the steep hill opposite, halfway up which was a neat cottage and flower-garden. [4]
As if responding to them but with a different sort of merriment, the metallic sound of the bells reverberated high above and the hot rays of the sun bathed the top of the opposite slope with yet another sort of merriment. [2]
I only wanted to tell you this--" Austen's voice caught a little, "if--anything should happen, I shall be at Mrs. Peasley's on Maple Street, opposite the Duncan house. [9]
Valmond appeared not to see the little coterie, but presently turned, when just opposite the gate, and, raising his hat, half paused. [11]
Come, they seemed to say to the worldlings on the opposite bank--come and see what happiness it is to serve the Lord. [4]
He was obliged to release the luckless Gaul from the broken timbers of the bridge, and, when Hermon had dragged him out on the opposite bank of the canal, he made no answer to any question. [10]
The orator appeared to prove that there wasn't a respectable man in the opposite party who wasn't an office-holder, nor a white man of any kind in it who was not an office-holder. [4]
Kasana sat opposite to him on a seat covered with a panther-skin, drawing the fine wool from the distaff. [10]
Georg stood opposite to her, held out his hand as if beseeching aid, and murmured in a hollow tone: "Cast forth to death and despair! [10]
He gave this to her, and pointed to a carved cabinet opposite his bed, one of those that had so attracted my curious eyes and set me wondering as to what it might contain. [6]
Mr. Spencer comes to an exactly opposite conclusion to that at which I have arrived. [1]
As it came to a halt directly opposite to where he stood, the dwarf pulled off his hat, and saluted the party with a hideous and grotesque politeness. [12]
For a short time the two stood opposite each other silent and motionless; at last the anchorite pushed the hair from off his brow, which was now for the first time visible. [10]
Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king--who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]
It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore. [12]
Of course I thought it wisest not to be there at all; but Warner took the opposite view, and most strenuously. [5]
One might have thought in all these years he had sat within the gates staring at the brick row of the company's boarding houses on the opposite bank of the canal that reflection might have brought a certain degree of enlightenment. [9]
She turned, but there was no time to flee, for the tall figure of a man came through the opposite hedge, followed by a lady. [9]
The fact that there was a vacant chair on the side opposite us had by no means escaped the notice of That Boy. [6]
Ten minutes later Theodore and I arrived opposite the house, with the servants straggling after us, and shouted to the distracted group on the porch, "Everybody safe! [5]
The leader encouraged them to paddle hard for the opposite shore. [5]
No one preceded them to clear the river, no other vessel made way for them; on the contrary, all tried to take place ahead of them, and to reach the opposite shore before them. [10]
She knew, by their uncertain yelping up and down the opposite bank, that she had a little respite: she used it, however, to push on until the baying was faint in her ears; and then she dropped, exhausted, upon the ground. [4]
Both gentlemen drew their swords and advanced to the middle of the lawn, and stood opposite one another, with flowing linen shirts open at the throat, and bared heads. [9]
Both armies conducted their invasions secretly and are now hunting around for each other on opposite sides of the border. [5]
The rink and the, ground opposite the hotel were in full tilt. [4]
I noticed that the witnesses were treated with unusual consideration, being allowed to sit down at the table opposite the little justice, who interrogated them in a loud voice. [4]
She went to the window, and stared across the sloping street at the grilled railing before the big house opposite, thinking. [9]
The distance to the Warm Springs is thirty-seven miles; to Marshall, more than halfway, the road is clear, as it runs on the opposite side of the river from the railway, and the valley is something more than river and rails. [4]
For six months the Victorian mansion opposite Uncle Tom's house had been sightless, with blue blinds drawn down inside the plate glass windows. [9]
Smoke rose through the tree-tops of the island opposite, and through the new gaps of its forest cabins could be seen. [9]
Mr. Cluyme, at the top of his speed, was come opposite to the carriage when the lady occupant got out of it. [9]
On one of the three couches which formed the right-hand angle with those of the royal family, Publius found a place next to Cleopatra; opposite to him, and next the king, was Lysias the Corinthian. [10]
I halted on the sidewalk to find myself staring from the opposite side of the street at a familiar house, my old landlady's, Mrs. Bolton's, and summoned up before me was the tired, smiling face of Hermann Krebs. [9]
His bedding, on the shelf, at once changed places with the bedding--a stranger's--that was occupying the sofa that was opposite to mine. [5]
The windows of the second story in the Golden Cross, opposite to the Ark, were brilliantly lighted. [10]
Orion replied, in the same tone, that this stone was not, strictly speaking, any part of his father's gift; but Benjamin expressed an opposite opinion. [10]
As he reached the pavement, he saw people gathering in front of the wide entrance of the Court House opposite, and perched on the copings. [9]
He opened out the pages with a slowness that seemed almost apathy, while the man opposite clinched his hands on the table spasmodically. [11]
The centre of the opposite wall was occupied by two small windows surmounted by a broad, semicircular arch, and separated by a short Roman pillar. [10]
The other took the opposite view. [14]
The law required the opposite thing--the big wheel must be turned in the direction in which you are falling. [5]
Then she argued the opposite theory, but made a weak, poor business of it, and lost the case. [5]
The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. [5]
Behind us, on the opposite shore, set round about with a wealth of foliage, was the Castle of Rheinstein, a fortress more pleasing in its proportions and situation than any other. [4]
Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
To detail just the opposite of the above invoice is to describe me. [5]
This point, and the opposite headland, the Capo di Sorrento, inclose the Piano di Sorrento, an irregular plain, three miles long, encircled by limestone hills, which protect it from the east and south winds. [4]
The brothers, at the onset, took the advice of the old man, and escaped through the opposite side of the lodge. [5]
The opinion of the nine seems strange to me, for it is unsupported by authority, while there was at least constructive authority for the opposite view. [5]
The one on the left, opposite to the city wall, now called Koniggratz, was then known as Schulgartenstrasse. [10]
They opened wider the lane for him to pass through, and he made his way, erect and somewhat defiant, to Mr. Pryse's, the coachmaker opposite, holding me by the hand. [9]
It was not the hut of a fisherman, though upon the wall opposite the books there hung fishing-tackle, nets, and cords, while outside, on staples driven in the jutting chimney, were some lobster-pots. [11]
As he left the hospital, he heard a wounded Boer prisoner say to a Tommy who had fought with him on opposite sides in the same engagement, "Alles zal recht kom! [11]
We came opposite the head of a place or court running eastward from the main street.--Look down there,--I said,--My friend the Professor lived in that house at the left hand, next the further corner, for years and years. [6]
Of the concubines, the greater number sat at the foot of the table; some stood opposite to Cambyses, and enlivened the banquet by songs and music. [10]
True, even at the great harbour, news could scarcely be expected, for a chain stretching from the end of the Pharos to a cliff directly opposite in the Alveus Steganus, closed the narrow opening. [10]
At one o'clock the grand stand opposite to the royal one is taken possession of by a regiment band and by invited guests. [4]
Under this conception the criminal code was arbitrarily constructed, so much punishment being set down opposite each criminal offense, without the least regard to the actual guilt of the man as an individual sinner. [4]
Deep silence pervaded the comfortable room, and Wolf had seated himself in the arm-chair opposite to the young wife when, at her entreaty, he began to tell the story again. [10]
Reporters were watching the closed house from the opposite pavement. [4]

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