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i thought he was busy, but on the contrary he was idle.
He seems cheery but, on the contrary, he is sad.
i thought it was going to clear up.
On the contrary, it began to rain.
He is not rich.
On the contrary, he is deep in debt.
He's not lazy.
On the contrary, i think he's a hard worker.
Some difficulty is often experienced at first in finding the hanging drop, and if the first attempt is unsuccessful, the student must not on any account, whilst still applying his eye to the ocular, rack the body tube down (for by so doing there is every likelihood of the[Pg 87] front lens of the objective being forced through the cover-glass, and not only spoiling the specimen, but also contaminating the objective); but, on the contrary, withdraw his eye, rack the tube up, and commence again from step 2.
it must be stated definitely that no micro-organism can be identified by any one character or property, whether microscopical, biological or chemical, but that on the contrary its entire life history must be carefully studied and then its identity established from a consideration of the sum total of these observations.
Hence, on the contrary, we also find, that Oyl of Tartar poured upon Quick-silver, and Spirit of Wine on that Oyl, and Oyl of Turpentine on that Spirit, and Air upon that Oyl, though they be stopt closely up into a Bottle, and shaken never so much, they will by no means long suffer any of their bigger parts to be united or included within any of the other Liquors (by which recited Liquors, may be plainly enough represented the four Peripatetical Elements, and the more subtil Òther above all.
But on the contrary, i endeavour to be conversant in divers kinds of Experiments, and all and every one of those Trials, i make the Standards or Touchstones, by which i try all my former Notions, whether they hold out in weight, and measure, and touch, -c.
But there is one strong argument, or rather a repetition of an argument already cited, placed in a much stronger light, which is employed by Nylander in the following words:-¶So far are what are called algÁ, according to the turbid hypothesis of Schwendener, from constituting true algÁ, that on the contrary it may be affirmed that they have a lichenose nature, whence it follows that these pseudo-algÁ are in a systematic arrangement to be referred rather to the lichens, and that the class of algÁ hitherto so vaguely limited should be circumscribed by new and truer limits.
in Thecaphora, on the contrary, the complex spore, or agglomeration of spores, is compact, being at first apparently enclosed in a delicate cyst.
in the Mucedines, on the contrary, the threads are never coated, seldom dingy, mostly white or of pure colours, and the spores have less a tendency to extra development or multiplex septation.
, is, on the contrary, very large, resembling in size,[y] and somewhat in appearance, a cauliflower; it has of late years been found several times in this country.
in another case, and amongst more aged fungi, the hymenium of which had ceased to give light, the stipe, on the contrary, threw out a brilliant glare.
The next evening, on the contrary, this substance, having been exposed to contact with the air, exhibited at its surface the same brightness as the bark of the branches.
As Tulasne observes, the pseudospores of the Òcidium and the greater number of Uredines are easily wetted with water before arriving at maturity; but when they are ripe, on the contrary, they appear to be clothed with a greasy matter which protects them from the liquid, forcing them almost all to rest on the surface.
its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.
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