"Go against" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Greek dames! no longer Grecian men! certainly will these things be a disgrace, most grievously grievous, if none of the Greeks will now go against Hector. But may ye all become water and earth, sitting there each of you, faint-hearted; utterly inglorious: but I myself will be armed against him. But the issues of victory are rested ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... upstream against an eight-mile current with big sand-waves, beginning about sixty feet from the shore, running in the middle of the river. If the engine ran, and the stern paddle-wheel turned, his reputation was saved. If she was powerful enough to go against the current, it was a triumph and we would start ...
— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb
... first, leaving the rest of the work to his other boats. I thought that there could be little doubt that he would be successful in so far as we were concerned, and I feared for the revenge that he might take upon us should the battle go against his force, as I was sure it would; for I knew that Perry and his Mezops must have brought with them all the arms and ammunition that had been contained in the prospector. But I was not prepared for what ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... shin up a tree if we wanted to, Fred, but that'd go against my grain. I feel like standing my ground, and trying to get a whack at that sheep-killing leader of the pack. Gee! wouldn't the farmers give us a vote of thanks if we did manage to put him ...
— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... of this one and that one only go against themselves, and not against religion. All ...
— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal
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