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With Martin, who has just been released after serving a prison term, Ayme takes a dreamlike but invigorating stroll through the contrarieties of Western society.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Sharpe shook his head as if to clear it of contrarieties.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“Archie,” he said, “in this land of contrarieties does the moon sometimes rise in the south?”

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

Then Valentine raised his tankard and proposed this toast: "God preserve the friend who has shared with me all the contrarieties of life, my good comrade Simplex!"

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór