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Sentences ending with comparison

Of course it would be a dull world if we could not criticise our friends, but the most unprofitable and unsatisfactory criticism is that by comparison. [4]
The poetry of Wordsworth may have suggested the prose of Emerson, but the prose loses nothing by the comparison. [6]
Everything else that was on show in the embalmers' hall was mere trash by comparison. [10]
Then she looked up at the two men as they stood side by side, and perhaps swept them both in an instant's comparison. [9]
Everything else appeared trivial in comparison. [10]
I am going to illustrate what I mean by a comparison. [6]
I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison. [4]
Everything else in the garden seemed to him worthless by comparison. [10]
The anguish and the fright which this thought gave me made my previous sufferings seem trifling by comparison. [5]
Then we will stick to the comparison. [10]

Short sentences using comparison

Aryans, comparison, 312. [6]

More example sentences with the word comparison in them

In comparison with you, Baron, I am but an insignificant man, but noble blood flows in my veins as well as in yours, and I, too, am no coward. [10]
And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity? [2]
Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to. [5]
There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
But if he will not point out anything erroneous in the evidence, is it not rather for him to show, by a comparison of the evidence, that I have reasoned falsely, than to call the "kind, amiable, intelligent gentleman" a liar? [7]
If any gentleman will have the kindness to stop this run-away comparison, I shall be much obliged to him. [6]
Finally, the dowry which Els was to bring bore no comparison to the large sums Ernst Ortlieb had lavished upon the erection of the St. Clare Convent, and hence it was inferred that the wealth of the firm had sustained considerable losses. [10]
I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
Besides, his debts were small in comparison with the vast sums Herr Casper had lavished in maintaining the impoverished estates of the Rotterbach kindred. [10]
But these sounds were hardly heard in comparison with the noise of the firing outside the town and attracted little attention from the inhabitants. [2]
If my plan were carried out, and another series of a dozen English trees photographed on the same scale the comparison would be charming. [6]
By comparison, music was to him a sensuous enjoyment. [4]
The inevitable comparison was come, and Stephen's hero was shrunk once more. [9]
Austen apparently cared very little for him or his opinions in comparison with his own estimate of right and wrong. [9]
He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. [2]
I cannot dwell upon this feature; but I suggest a comparison with the correspondence of some of the German, and with that especially of the London journals, from the various capitals of Europe, and from the occasional seats of war. [4]
It is when two shades of the same color are brought side by side that comparison makes them odious to each other. [6]
How small and trivial was the former in comparison with the latter, which had no termination! [10]
The scholar's mind, to use a similar comparison, is furnished with shelves, like his library. [3]
It is impossible to tell, in a great many cases, whether a comparison which suddenly suggests itself is a new conception or a recollection. [6]
This you ought to set down to his credit: You ought to give him full credit for this much; little though it be, in comparison to the whole which he does for you. [7]
The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, or illustration, generally when something in the scene suggests them, but legal phrases flow from his pen as part of his vocabulary and parcel of his thought. [5]
I will return to my comparison of the lakes. [5]
He was trying to give his impressions of Silverdale, in comparison to country places abroad, while Mrs. Robert regarded him enigmatically, and Susan sympathetically. [9]
She rather tended to depreciate her own gifts, in comparison with those of her friend, Miss Lurida Vincent. [6]
He tried equally to avoid thinking about his wife, and about Natasha and Prince Andrew; and again everything seemed to him insignificant in comparison with eternity; again the question: for what? [2]
In comparison with those days, Phryxus, I may be called a poor man now, but Cambyses does not leave me to famish, and I can still raise a talent for your temple. [10]
In speaking of this, I mean no odious comparison between the lion-hearted Whigs and the Democrats who fought there. [7]
They knew that this would suggest the comparison between Caesar and the sanguinary wretch whose name had been applied to him, and all who were eager to give expression to their vexation or dissatisfaction took the hint and joined in the outcry. [10]
We might pursue this general subject of progress by a comparison of the society of this country now with that of fifty years ago. [4]
When you compare these achievements of his with the achievements of really great men who exist in history, the comparison, I believe, is in his favor. [5]
In succeeding chapters the mental powers of man, in comparison with those of the lower animals, will be considered. [1]
She pointed out the little faults of construction and of language, and then minimized them in comparison with the noble motive and the unity and beauty of the whole. [4]
Our eminent classmate, the late Professor Benjamin Peirce, showed by numerical comparison that the men of superior ability outlasted the average of their fellow-graduates. [6]
Within its compass the comparison in her mind was all complete. [9]
Whether this is the case with the migratory in comparison with the maternal instinct, may be doubted. [1]
Only he had the air of a man who praises his neighbor without stint, with a calm consciousness that he himself is out of reach of comparison in the possessions or qualities which he is admiring in the other. [6]
Happy by comparison, that is, with what they both had suffered, and a haven of rest after the struggle and despair of the wilderness. [9]
Well, a man that is packed away like that is a nut that isn't worth the cracking, there is so little of the meat, when you get down to it, by comparison with the shell. [5]
But there was surely no comparison between the situations of the master of the Belle of the Wye and an officer in the Royal Navy. [9]
This comparison naturally suggests the recollection of that other source of danger which was an element in the every-day life of the Rockland people. [6]
Thanks to the strictness and assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. [2]
The four great square piers or pillars that stand equidistant from each other in the church, and support the roof, I could not work up to their real dimensions by any method of comparison. [5]
His voice was sharp and hard, and his movements, in comparison with the deliberation of the other members of the Egyptian court, appeared almost morbidly active. [10]
I have a sense of the unimportance of everything else in comparison with this business in hand. [4]
Her own worth seemed clearer to her than ever before, from a comparison with these miserable creatures, and a wonderful certainty of ultimate victory stole into her heart, for Nitetis was a firm believer in the magic power of virtue. [10]
Presently the drooping roses raised their heads, from pearl to silver grew the light, and comparison ended. [9]
It is well remarked, on the twenty-third page of this article, that "the comparison of bills of mortality among an equal number of sick, treated by divers methods, is a most poor and lame way to get at conclusions touching principles of the healing art. [3]
There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine. [5]
His figure might perhaps once have been tall and slender, but it was now so bent and shrunk by age, privation and suffering, as to look unnatural and dwarfish, in comparison with the size of his head. [10]
There is a parallelism without identity in the animal and vegetable life of the two continents, which favors the task of comparison in an extraordinary manner. [6]
The joys of Paradise shall be no better than a rap on the skull with an olive-wood log in comparison! [10]
Her face was oval, her features not quite regular,--giving them a certain charm; her colour was fresh, her eyes blue, the lighter blue one sees on Chinese ware: not a poetic comparison, but so I thought of them. [9]
So, to carry out, with another comparison, my remark about the layers of thought, we may consider the mind as it moves among thoughts or events, like a circus-rider whirling round with a great troop of horses. [6]
But within ten or a dozen years I have seen this very same comparison going the round of the papers, and credited to a Welsh poet, David Ap Gwyllym, or something like that, by name. [6]
His satrapy was one of the most important and profitable in the entire kingdom, and his household could bear a comparison with that of Cambyses in richness and splendor. [10]
In the ashes on the hearth, side by side with my own bare footprint, was another, so vast that in comparison mine was but an infant's! [5]
The practical effect of this is more aptly shown by a comparison of the States of South Carolina and Maine. [7]
By the side of this dignified, but impetuous and warm-hearted man they appeared like the old, rigid idols of his ancestors in comparison with the freely-wrought works of Greek art. [10]
My former comparison of the organization of our city to a picture puzzle wherein the dominating figures become visible only after long study is rather inadequate. [9]
By careful comparison of many prescriptions, and by the aid of Schroder, Salmon, Culpeper, and other old compilers, I have deciphered many of his difficult paragraphs with their mysterious recipes. [3]
Bulkeley, Peter: minister of Concord, 4-7, 71; comparison of sermons, 57; patriotism, 72; landowner, 327. [6]
Money was as nothing in comparison with life; besides, Anne had a small legacy left to her by her godmother, and they felt that she could not better employ this than in obtaining what might prolong life, if not restore health. [14]
The difference would, no doubt, still remain immense, even if one of the higher apes had been improved or civilised as much as a dog has been in comparison with its parent-form, the wolf or jackal. [1]
Though he himself never wrote verses, he had some qualities which his friend the poet may have undervalued in comparison with the talent of modelling the symmetries of verse and adjusting the correspondences of rhyme. [6]
It was a much subtler comparison than that of the ordinary guide, who rates his traveler by his ability to endure on a march, to carry a pack, use an oar, hit a mark, or sing a song. [4]
It was a miraculous fact, for which she did not attempt to account, that she was almost happy: happy, indeed, in comparison to that which had been her state since the afternoon before. [9]
There were three men in the State--and perhaps only three--who realized from the first that all former political combats would pale in comparison to this one to come. [9]
With birds and many other animals, it seems to follow from the comparison of allied species that circular spots are often generated by the breaking up and contraction of stripes. [1]
Now, when we make this comparison, we are not drawn towards the gods of any other nation. [5]
This brick house, magnificent by comparison with other dwellings in this country, seemed to us, on nearer acquaintance, only a thin, crude shell of a house, half unfinished, with bare rooms, the plastering already discolored. [4]
This was the letter which was rendered so peculiarly offensive by a most undignified comparison which startled every well-bred reader. [6]
Now that the ladies of the present are coming to dress as ladies dressed a hundred years ago, we can make an adequate comparison of beauty. [4]
No, for a just comparison we shall have to reach back to history and fable: David and Goliath; Theseus and the Minotaur; or, better still, Cadmus and the Dragon! [9]
I didn't borrow it, for all that.--I made a comparison at table some time since, which has often been quoted and received many compliments. [6]
This melancholy reflection is thrown in here in order to make dog-days seem cheerful in comparison. [4]
Criticism by comparison is the refuge of incapables, and especially is this true in literature. [4]
By comparison, tiger-hunting is a colorless poor thing, for all it has been so bragged about. [5]
At supper, for instance, lately, before his mind was clouded by the influence of wine, he asked us what the Persians thought of him in comparison with his father. [10]
But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and wrong. [7]
I think that in respect for judicial authority my humble history would not suffer in comparison with that of Judge Douglas. [7]
She was right in regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. [2]
But what comparison, in numbers have such bands ever borne to the insurgent sympathizers even in many of the loyal States? [7]
What was that in comparison to the certainty that to the last Charles did not forget her! [10]
Indeed, I believe if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. [7]
But I confess I never suspected the above comparison of being old, except from the fact of its obviousness. [6]
I rather think I must own to the "Rock of Ages" comparison. [6]
These transitional cases, however, are few, or at least are not strongly pronounced, in comparison with those which come strictly under the present class. [1]
What annual the horticulturist can show will bear comparison with this product of auricultural industry, which has flowered in midsummer and midwinter for twenty successive seasons? [6]
The comparison roused his forgotten anxiety afresh, and after a few brief, tender words of farewell he left the object of his love. [10]
He argues from his comparison of texts in a perfectly sober, old-fashioned way, as his ancestor Peter Bulkeley might have done. [6]
The troops at his command were few in number in comparison with the heathen population of the city, and it was a very important matter to keep a large proportion of the worshippers of Serapis occupied elsewhere at the moment of the decisive onset. [10]
The governor's residence here--for I think nothing of mere size--is a peasant's hut--a wretched barn by comparison! [10]
She could not help thinking of this comparison, and what entirely different things from those she had anticipated, the union with him had offered to this day. [10]
These strikers were helots, unorganized scum; the regular unions--by comparison respectable--held aloof from them. [9]
As we never heard an angel sing, that comparison is not worth much. [4]
March hung his head; he knew it would be useless to protest that his share of the calamity was, by comparison, infinitesimally small. [8]
But I think he would have now and then recognized a sound idea, a just comparison, a suggestive hint, a practical notion, which redeemed a page of extravagances and crotchety whims. [6]
Thus it may have been with man, who has undergone a great amount of modification in certain characters in comparison with the higher apes. [1]
This strange comparison had entered her head as Iras stood rigidly erect, reading aloud in a shrill, high voice the Queen's command. [10]

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