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Sentences starting with compared

Compared with the wretched attempts of London to light that city, New York may fairly be said to be a well-lighted city. [5]
Compared with them, the King was worthy and virtuous. [10]
Compared to what preoccupied him, was it not a matter of indifference whether he lived with his wife or not? [2]
Compared with some other subjects, even your bill is a pleasant topic to discuss. [5]
Compared with the freedom of action in such a government as ours, any form of communism is an iniquitous and meddlesome despotism. [4]
Compared with that, even standing in the pillory was not specially grievous. [10]
Compared with superior dwelling-houses and first-class hotels in the Valley, they were indubitably magnificent, they were 'palaces. [5]
Compared with such blasphemy as this, Lindau's declaration that there was not equality of opportunity in America, and that fully one-half the people were debarred their right to the pursuit of happiness by the hopeless conditions of their lives, was flattering praise. [8]
Compared with this all others are mere fluttering feathers. [10]

Sentences ending with compared

Nothing in life is either great or small--the one may be transformed to the other, according to the things with which it is compared. [10]
Yet no, Isabella and I cannot be compared. [10]

Sentences containing compared two or more times

For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
Specific gravity is the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume of or that is the weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal volume. [5]
And compared to the duration of life it did not seem to him slower than an awakening from sleep compared to the duration of a dream. [2]
If Solomon in all his glory was not to be compared to a lily, a whole bed of lilies could not be compared to this garden-bed of youthful womanhood. [6]

More example sentences with the word compared in them

How dull we writers, famous or obscure, are in the acquisition of knowledge as compared with them! [6]
What is the world, what am I to her, compared with the Queen, the idol of her heart? [10]
Aristomachus had a wooden leg, but his step was so firm, even when compared with that of the light-footed Phanes, that it might have been thought to be his own limb. [10]
The two people whom he cursed were in Elysium compared to the place where he tortured himself. [11]
I now ask whether he is able to find in anything that Judge Trumbull, for instance, has said, or in anything that I have said, a justification at all compared with what we have, in this instance, for that sort of vulgarity. [7]
He dressed well when in the city,--even elegantly,--he had many of the lesser social accomplishments, was a good dancer, and compared favorably in all such matters with the more dashing young fellows in society. [6]
So felt Alexander when he compared even his adored Homer with the hero the poet had sung. [3]
Compared, indeed, to what it had twenty years ago? [9]
Had I said what I thought, I should have said: even if he had to go on dying, to die continually before my eyes, I should have been happy compared with what I am now. [2]
But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
Of what consequence were the listeners before whom she had hitherto sung compared with those whose footsteps were now echoing on the lowest stairs? [10]
I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. [5]
Toward evening he went off at a tangent far up-town, so as to be able to tell his wife how utterly preposterous the best there would be as compared even with this ridiculous Grosvenor Green gimcrackery. [8]
It is a well-known law that widely-ranging species are much more variable than species with restricted ranges; and the variability of man may with more truth be compared with that of widely- ranging species, than with that of domesticated animals. [1]
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size. [5]
Because Mavick was weak--and she had always secretly despised him for yielding to her--weak as compared with her own indomitable spirit, she generalized wildly. [4]
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! [4]
This morning I was told, by a gentleman who I have no doubt believes what he says, that in one case of assessments for $10,000 the different persons who paid compared receipts, and found they had paid $30,000. [7]
He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. [2]
I thought I was lazy, but I am a steam-engine compared to a Constantinople dog. [5]
What stuff it was compared to the reality of her own life! [4]
Its first boss was Clive, a sufficiently crooked person sometimes, but straight as a yard stick when compared with the corkscrew crookedness of the second boss, Warren Hastings. [5]
The Egyptian army was by no means contemptible, even when compared with the immense Persian hosts. [10]
Her own boudoir was a cheap affair compared with that in the new house. [4]
His full clear voice sounded like pure song when compared with the shrill tones of Amasis. [10]
It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical documents, pretending to show a great proportional mortality among the patients of the Medical Profession, as compared with those treated according to its own rules. [3]
These may be useful in prudent hands, but how insignificant compared to the great hygienic conditions! [3]
There is no use in denying it,--a company without the possibility of a love-match between two of its circle is like a champagne bottle with the cork out for some hours as compared to one with its pop yet in reserve. [6]
As Talbott afterwards told me, he went to the General's, but not finding him at home, got the deed from his son, which, when compared with the record, proved what we had discovered was merely an error of the recorder. [7]
The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. [5]
I, who compared to you, am like a faun with pointed ears beside the handsome Ares, nevertheless know by experience how easily the glowing eyes of that country kindle conflagrations. [10]
She compared herself to the ostrich hiding its head in the sand; and says that she still buries hers in the heath of Haworth moors; but "the concealment is but self-delusion. [14]
Then she stopped to take pleasure in her own image displayed in a large mirror which stood on a dressing-table, and between whiles she compared the couch, on which she lay clown again at full length, with those in Paulina's house. [10]
Mr. Lincoln referred to some official documents emanating from Indiana, and compared the progressive population of the two States. [7]
She compared him to our moulting hawk. [10]
She compared him to Ditmar, on whose dust-grey face she was quick to detect a look she had seen before--a contraction of the eyes, a tightening of the muscles of the jaw. [9]
I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. [5]
The name applied to both shows that each has long been compared to a ship, as you may see more fully in Webster's Dictionary, or the "Encyclopedia," to which he refers. [6]
King had heard this lake compared with Como and Maggiore, and as a patriot he endeavored to think that its wild and sylvan loveliness was more pleasing than the romantic beauty of the Italian lakes. [4]
And you see this book is either going to be compared with the Innocents Abroad, or contrasted with it, to my disadvantage. [5]
If any one thinks meanly of Penelope for counting upon the heroism of Irene to effect her unhappiness, let him reflect of how little consequence is the temporary happiness of one or two individuals compared with the peace and comfort of a whole social order. [4]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
They browse on them, as the animal to which they would not like to be compared browses on his thistles. [6]
The people compared them with what they had seen; and, thus measured, thus judged, the boats were magnificent--the term was the correct one, it was not at all too strong. [5]
I will have them set with the most precious stones; even diamonds will seem worthless to me compared with this gift from you. [10]
We smile at their little vanities, as if they were very trivial things compared with the last Congressman's speech or the great Election Sermon; but Nature knows well what she is about. [6]
The conflict in the young man's mind between the desire for fame and the sense of its emptiness as compared with nobler aims has set me thinking about the subject from a somewhat humbler point of view. [6]
Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?--death which ends all and must come today or tomorrow--at any rate, in an instant as compared with eternity. [2]
But dark as the Widow looked in her half-concealed pet, she was but as a pale shadow, compared to Elsie in her silent concentration of shame and anger. [6]
What were all the shocks life had dealt him compared to the thought of such loyal and generous friendship? [13]
What was all the power in the world compared to this priceless treasure he had lost? [9]
He involuntarily compared the old capital of the Pharaohs to a time-eaten mummy, and Amru's new city to a vigorous youth. [10]
He had won the last and the greatest of his victories there, compared to which the others had indeed been as vanities. [9]
As compared with the landed estate of the British Empire, the landed estate dominated by any other Power except one --Russia--is not very impressive for size. [5]
The cucumbers cumber the ground,--great yellow, over-ripe objects, no more to be compared to the crisp beauty of their youth than is the fat swine of the sty to the clean little pig. [4]
The speed of the fastest steamer afloat is poor compared to his. [5]
The cigar-box which the European calls a "lift" needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. [5]
The shedding of the deciduary margins may be compared with the shedding of their down by very young birds; for the down in most cases arises from the summits of the first true feathers. [1]
I have noted the dates of his achievements, because his development was somewhat tardy compared that of many of his contemporaries; but he had the "staying" qualities. [4]
Add to this that Kunz was a well-favored, slender youth; but as compared with Herdegen's splendid looks and stalwart frame he looked no more than common. [10]
I've just been telling her that there wasn't a woman at my tea who compared with her, and the men were crazy about her. [9]
She repudiated the suggestion, yet it persisted as she glanced at Rolfe's red lips and compared him with Ditmar. [9]
I considered $100,000 sufficient to go home with decently, though it was but a small amount compared to what I had been expecting to return with. [5]
She--what did she suffer, compared with her who wrote this revelation of a lifetime of pain, of bitter and torturing knowledge! [11]
It won't be standing,--the Master said.---We are poor bunglers compared to those old Egyptians. [6]
It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people. [4]
Presently he turned slowly, came to the portrait on the wall, and compared it with that in his hand. [11]
Yet, no; she should not be compared to the sun. [10]
He said that she had always been the queenliest creature in the land, but that she was only commonplace before, compared to what she was now, so extraordinary was the improvement wrought by rich fashionable attire. [5]
I know who sent them the segment of melon, which in her riotous fancy one of them compared to those huge barges to which we give the ungracious name of mudscows. [6]
And yet these sculptured blocks are trifles in size compared with the rough-hewn blocks that form the wide verandah or platform which surrounds the Great Temple. [5]
What was that scrap compared to my lord's business, his great establishment, his equipages in the Park, his position in society, his weight in the House of Lords, his influence in Europe? [4]
And yet I say: the bulwarks raised by men However strong, compared to Thy great works Are but vain shadows, and no human aid Avails against the foe--but Thy strong hand. [10]
To do something, say something, see something, before any body else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. [5]
Our passage was rough, as compared to the former one, and some of the passengers were seasick. [6]
Death is no riddle, compared to this. [6]
Man in many respects may be compared with those animals which have long been domesticated, and a large body of evidence can be advanced in favour of the Pallasian doctrine (14. [1]
The presence and remarks of Willarski who continually deplored the ignorance and poverty of Russia and its backwardness compared with Europe only heightened Pierre's pleasure. [2]
He began by referring to the hope with which he had come to St. John's, and the gradual realization that the church was a failure--a dismal failure when compared to the high ideal of her Master. [9]
Let this terrible record of lack of employment and misery be compared with the prosperity under Republican rule. [9]
Indeed, although he recognized the symptoms she betrayed as feminine, as having been registered--though feebly compared to this! [9]
What kind of railroad service was Kingston getting compared to what it should have? [9]
Indeed, no; his punishment is trivial compared with theirs. [5]
The sound thus produced is compared by some to distant thunder, and by others to the quick roll of a drum. [1]
What were these privations compared to that magic word Change? [9]
Still, nothing ever printed about him could be compared with those articles. [9]
No one, I presume, doubts that the large proportion which the size of man's brain bears to his body, compared to the same proportion in the gorilla or orang, is closely connected with his higher mental powers. [1]
I compared the present with the past: What were the priests? [10]
Women have a power of investing simple ordinary things with a charm; men are bungling narrators compared with them. [4]
The selfishness in politics, the jealousy in letters, the bickering in art, the bitterness in theology, are all as nothing compared to the sweet charities, sacrifices, and deferences of private life. [4]
I think the poets have an advantage and a disadvantage as compared with the steadier-going people. [6]
It gives me pleasure to report a decided improvement in the financial condition of the Post-Office Department as compared with several preceding years. [7]
There were some others, however, who, believing the public to labor under a delusion, thought it worth while to see whether the charm would be broken by an open trial of its virtue, as compared with that of some less hallowed formula. [3]
Everything which legend or history had recorded of similar deeds was compared with this day's work, and it was agreed that it transcended them all. [10]
Can the party opinion of a party President on a law question, as this purely is, be at all compared or set in opposition to that of such a man, in such an attitude, as Chancellor Kent? [7]
You are hanging on my arm, and I have hold of your hand; compared with this, all is as nought. [10]
For Uncle Tom on a summer's day to hire a surrey at Braintree's Livery Stable and drive thither was like--to what shall that bliss be compared in these days when we go to Europe with indifference? [9]
At this time of year everything was moist and well-watered, and Pentaur compared the country with Egypt, and observed how the same results were attained here as there, but by different agencies. [10]
By this standard of measurement, this nation, two or three generations ago, consisted of mere cripples, paralytics, dead men, as compared with the men of to-day. [5]
Having a cake of ice slipped down one's back is placid comfort compared to it. [5]

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