contra against, contrary to; over against; m. see pro; en—— de, en—— a , against, unfavorable to.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Foremost among the victors stands out the great name of Prince Eugene, comrade-in-arms of our own Marlborough, whose song, "Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter" (Prince Eugene, the noble Knight), has been sung in July and August 1914 on the streets of Vienna, just as "Marlbrook s'en va-t-en guerre" might be sung by our Belgian allies.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

Innuit ergo huic Simon Petrus, et dixit ei: Quis est, de quo dicit?
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

— potest esse : Meissner ( n. on 27 ) says that Cicero's rule is to say potest esse, debet esse and the like, not esse potest and the like.
— from Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Shakspeare, who had a royal way of committing anachronisms, made Hamlet live in this place after the introduction of gunpowder, whereas, if any such person ever did exist, it was centuries earlier and hundreds of miles farther north upon the mainland, in what is now Jutland.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

Shakespeare, who had a most royal way of disregarding dates, made Hamlet live in this place after the introduction of gunpowder, whereas if any such person ever did exist, it was centuries earlier and hundreds of miles farther north upon the mainland, in what is now called Jutland.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

This may be removed in many cases, and relieved in all instances, by friction over the abdominal organs, and by making an effort at some stated period each day, (evening is best,) to evacuate the residuum.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

If they say "No," then they are asserting that to call a perception "real" is merely to say that it was perceived in the sense in which Sindbad did perceive a Roc: they are asserting that to call it "real" is not to say, in any sense, that it was really perceived: they are asserting that to call a perception "real" is to say that it was perceived, in some sense quite other than that in which we ordinarily use the word: for we certainly commonly mean, when we say "A was perceived," that a perception of A was "real": we should commonly say that Sindbad did not perceive a Roc—meaning that no such perception ever did exist.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore