He resented her impertinence-for, like all men of clear and positive mind, he regarded contradiction as in one aspect impudent, in another aspect evidence of the folly of his Contradictor.
"The Grain Of Dust A Novel"
David Graham Phillips
What he had really drawn upon himself was a hand-to-hand wrestle with a man who had no sooner provoked contradiction than he resented it with all his force, and with a determination to crush the Contradictor.
"Lady Rose's Daughter"
Mrs. Humphry Ward