AGAINST in Classic Quotes

1  He pressed himself against her.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

2  His head banged against the wall.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

3  Eighty cots stood in a row against the wall.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II

4  He leaned against the wall to steady himself.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

5  An intensive propaganda against viviparous reproduction.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

6  Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

7  It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

8  She was grown up, but she wasn't big enough to fight against three of them.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

9  Touch of smooth skin against his face, scent in his nostrils of musky dust--her real presence.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IX

10  He liked the bracelet; but all the same, he was frightened; he hid his face against Linda's body.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

11  Two doors and a passage with a double turn ensured the cellar against any possible infiltration of the day.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

12  At the corners of the lips, and on each side of the chin a few long bristles gleamed almost white against the dark skin.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

13  But he was also crying because people were so beastly and unfair, and because he was only a little boy and couldn't do anything against them.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

14  In the end she persuaded him, much against his will, to fly over to Amsterdam to see the Semi-Demi-Finals of the Women's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

15  The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

16  For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

17  Flood-lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four corners of its helicopter platform an immense T shone crimson against the night, and from the mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets rumbled a solemn synthetic music.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V