Gladiator-fights were prohibited, and the people were tired of wild beasts; but races, in which heathen and Christian alike might enter their horses for competition, must certainly prove most attractive just at this time of bitter rivalry and Oppugnancy between the two religions, and would draw thousands of the most able-bodied idolaters to the Hippodrome.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Let it be said that her powers of antagonism at times were not sufficiently restrained-how, without such Oppugnancy, could she have stood forth for unpopular truths?
"Harriet Martineau"
Florence Fenwick Miller
It does not include, nor touch the question, which is this:-Had Congress, or the treaty-making power, a right to recognise, and, by recognising, to establish, in a territory that had no claim of privilege, on the ground of being part of one of the "Original States," a condition of things that it could not establish directly, because there was no grant in the constitution of power, direct or incidental, to do so-and because, to do so, was in downright Oppugnancy to the principles of the Constitution itself?
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society