Sentence:  Of Sally Brass, <WSD>conflicting</WSD> rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.