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The Queen and the cabinet, however, were entirely averse to meddling with the council.—Morley.
Perhaps he is not averse from seeing democrats on this, as on railway rates, range themselves with him.—Times.
In all democratic circles aversion from the Empire of the Tsar may be intensified by the events of the last few days.—Times.
To no kind of begging are people so averse as to begging pardon.—Guesses at Truth.
This averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government.—Burke.
I deeply regret the aversion to 'conscience clauses'.—Gladstone.
But she had no sort of aversion for either Puritan or Papist.—J. R. Green.
Disagree from (for with), and adverse from (for to), seem to have resulted from the superstition against averse and different to.
A general proposition, which applies just as much to those who disagree from me as to those who agree with me.—Lord Rosebery.
There were politicians in this country who had been very adverse from the Suez Canal scheme altogether.—F. Greenwood.
2. After verbs.
I derive an unholy pleasure in noting.—Guernsey Evening Press.
We must content ourselves for the moment by observing that from the juridical standpoint the question is a doubtful one.—Times.
The petition which now reaches us from Bloemfontein...contents itself by begging that the isolation laws may be carried out nearer to the homes of the patients.—Times.
I content you by submitting: I content myself with saying.
'Doing one's duty' generally consists of being moral, kind and charitable.–Daily Telegraph.
The external world which is dealt with by natural science consisted, according to Berkeley, in ideas. According to Mr. Mill it consists of sensations and permanent possibilities of sensation.–Balfour.
The moon consists of green cheese: virtue consists in being good. Consist of gives a material, consist in a definition. Mr. Balfour's 'elegant variation' (see Airs and Graces) is certainly wrong, though nominalists and realists will perhaps differ about which should have been used in both sentences,
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