opposing

I had remembered him as a long, slab-sided man with loose limbs and a fine turn of speed, which had carried him round many an opposing back.

Without opposing their arrangements, he allowed Morrel, Château-Renaud, and Debray to leave on horseback, and the ladies in M.

Morrel hesitated for a moment; he feared it would be hypocritical to accost in a friendly manner the man whom he was tacitly opposing, but his oath and the gravity of the circumstances recurred to his memory; he struggled to conceal his emotion and bowed to Franz.

“You see, then,” said Albert, “that instead of opposing, she will encourage me.”