Example Sentences

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"Do you think she can have grown that much in four weeks?" asks he, not contradictiously, but a little doubtfully, as Don Quixote may have asked the Princess Micomicona her reasons for landing at Ossime.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

"I am not Indian, you know; I was only quartered in India for a few years," returned Ormonde, contradictiously.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

"She won't even do that," the old lady declared contradictiously.

From The Chaperon by James, Henry