All 8 Uses of

contrast

in

The House of the Seven Gables

The young girl, so fresh, so unconventional, and yet so orderly and obedient to common rules, as you at once recognized her to be, was widely in contrast, at that moment, with everything about her.†
Chpt 4 *

in contrast = in a comparison that shows differences

In the aspect of this dark-arrayed, pale-faced, ladylike old figure there was a deeply tragic character that contrasted irreconcilably with the ludicrous pettiness of her employment.†
Chpt 2 *

This mighty contrast thrust itself forward as a fair expression of the odds against which she was to begin her struggle for a subsistence.†
Chpt 3

By the spell of contrast, another portrait rose up before her, painted with more daring flattery than any artist would have ventured upon, but yet so delicately touched that the likeness remained perfect.†
Chpt 4

Look at my face!" and, indeed, the contrast was very striking,—"you see how pale I am!†
Chpt 5

It was worth while to hear the croaking and hollow tones of the old lady, and the pleasant voice of Phoebe, mingling in one twisted thread of talk; and still better to contrast their figures,—so light and bloomy,—so decrepit and dusky,—with only the counter betwixt them, in one sense, but more than threescore years, in another.†
Chpt 5

The moonbeams have no longer so silvery a gleam, nor contrast so strongly with the blackness of the shadows among which they fall.†
Chpt 18

This contrast, or intermingling of tragedy with mirth, happens daily, hourly, momently.†
Chpt 19

Definitions:

(1) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles)
point to differences between; or compare to show differences
(2) (contrast as in: there is a contrast)
a difference -- especially a notable difference; or the side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable difference
(3) (contrast as in: sharpen the picture contrast)
the difference between tones of an image -- as in a photo or video -- such as the quality of brightness or the intensity of shades or colors
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)