"Vice versa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... draw the plow. I have always imagined that the first quarrel—the Cain and Abel affair—must have occurred through some difference of caste as well as jealousy—for instance, perhaps Abel was a negro and Cain a white man, or vice versa; which would account for the antipathy existing between ...
— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli
... They muster in especial force on the Pincio, but the Corso all day is thronged with them. They are well-dressed, good- humoured, good-looking, polite; but they seem never to do a harder stroke of work than to stroll from the Piazza Colonna to the Hotel de Rome or vice versa. Some of them don't even stroll, but stand leaning by the hour against the doorways, sucking the knobs of their canes, feeling their back hair and settling their shirt-cuffs. At my cafe in the morning several stroll ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... a little older I had to play my part on the farm. Mother now worked another scheme. I took turns with my brother at school and at the plow. What he learned at school on his school-day was taught to me at night, and vice versa. In this way we got a month of schooling each during the year, and got the habit of ...
— Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements • Various
... given you is given as an aid to quickly transfer a point course into a new or old compass course—or vice versa—you should learn to do this yourself, ...
— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper
... the individual is, indeed, very probably revealed in the fact that short-lived animals most generally reproduce themselves rapidly and in great abundance, and vice versa. In many cases where this appears contradicted, it will be found that the young are exposed to such dangers that but few survive (e.g. many of the reptilia, etc.), and so the rate of ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
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