variance
Definition: A difference or change
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Fundamentals of Fiction Writing - By Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
...You can doubtless recall from your own experience stories that registered strongly on you because of variance from the usual types ....
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
...The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child; and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfre-quently reviled them with their tongues ....
Pride & Prejudice - By Jane Austen
...` Dear Sir, The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honored father always gave me much uneasiness; and, since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach : but, for some time, I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with any one with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance . '...
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance--a topic we should never discuss ....
Gulliver's Travels - By Jonathan Swift, Ernest Bernbaum
...Alliance by blood or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between princes; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater is their disposition to quarrel : poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...No, I repeat again, that nothing shall induce me to renew attempts evidently at variance with the Almighty 's pleasure . "...
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter, nothing to risk by a state of variance ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...She makes variance betwixt Rulers and Subjects, betwixt Parents and Children, ` twixt Neighbor and Neighbor, ` twixt a Man and his Wife, ` twixt a Man and Himself, ` twixt the Flesh and the Heart ....
Daisy Miller - By Henry James, Harry Whitney McVickar
...But at the Trois Couronnes, it must be added, there are other features that are much at variance with these suggestions : neat German waiters, who look like sec...
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...`` You '11 be decidedly at variance, all the same, " he said in a moment ....
The House of the Seven Gables - By Nathaniel Hawthorne
...But we must betray Hepzibah 's secret, and confess that the native timorousness of her character even now developed itself in a quick tremor, which, to her own perception, set each of her joints at variance with its fellows ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...Some motive beneath the surface had been needed to account for Will 's sudden change of course in rejecting Mr. Casaubon 's aid and quitting his travels; and this defiant determination to fix himself in the neighborhood by taking up something so much at variance with his former choice as Mr. Brooke 's Middlemarch projects, revealed clearly enough that the undeclared motive had relation to Dorothea ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...Mr. Glegg 's unmistakable kind-heartedness was shown in this, that it pained him more to see his wife at variance with others--even with Dolly, the servant--than to be in a state of cavil with her himself--and the quarrel between her and Mr. Tulliver vexed him so much that it quite nullified the pleasure he would otherwise have had in the state of his early cabbages, as he walked in his garden before breakfast the next morning ....