1 Now you clearly see the sequence of events, though you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way in which they presented themselves to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 2 The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.
3 They used I know not what desires to give point to the same wrath in inverse sense.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON 4 It was birth the wrong way round--a monstrous inversion.
5 But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones.
6 The feelings of husband and wife varied, in some measure, inversely with their positions.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 7 On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.