This difficulty presents itself strongly to us at present; a vast number of circumstances rise before us from which we must refrain, lest they should appear to indicate a road we are not about to travel; and, at the same time, we feel the want of those very events to reconcile what may well seem Contradictions in our history.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But with the struggle past he had time to take up the Contradictions of her attitude, and he found little to justify his bold statement that he could read her better than she could read herself.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
And indeed here was Peter at this stage of things, a mad I bundle of Contradictions-old as a judge when up against the Realities, young as Crumpet the puppy when staring at Romance.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole