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- Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
- And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep. [13]
- He had sat up till morning, had rested scarcely three hours, and now, with knitted brows, was comparing the results of his night's observation of the starry sky with certain astronomical tables which lay spread out before him. [10]
- Mentally she took to comparing this room with Adrian Fellowes' sitting-room overlooking the Thames Embankment, where everything was in perfect taste and order, where all was modulated, harmonious, soigne and artistic. [11]
- From time to time she found herself watching them furtively, comparing them unconsciously with her Quicksands friends. [9]
- I am afraid there are some who have no natural turn for it, as there are persons without an ear for music, to which, if I remember right, I heard one of you comparing what you called religious genius. [6]
- He got on the scales at Cheyenne, on his trip to California, comparing his weight with that of a lady of the party. [6]
- But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
- The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead. [5]
- While Barine was telling Helena and Gorgias, also, why all this plan had been formed so hastily, Gorgias was silently comparing the two sisters. [10]
- What a pretty simile it is, comparing life to a river, because rivers are so different! [4]
- He asked her secretary if he had heard aright when the telegram was dictated to him; the secretary said he had, and took the filed copy of it and verified its authenticity by comparing it with the stenographic notes. [5]
- Having reached his room, which had been splendidly decorated for his predecessor, Pentaur laid aside his new insignia, comparing sorrowfully the past and the present. [10]
- I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure. [7]
- In the hurry of my imagination I commanded rain to fall, and by comparing the time of my command with that of the inundation I found that the clouds had listened to my lips. [6]
- When she and Martina returned home she looked so cast down and distracted that no stranger now would ever have dreamed of comparing her with a brisk little bird. [10]
- By comparing the known works of his own gods with the works of those others; there is no other way. [5]
- What is the justice of damning a meritorious novelist by comparing him with Dickens, and smothering him with thoughtless and good-natured eulogy? [4]
- I note with joy that you say: "If you are lazy about comparing, (which I most certainly am), I can make you a complete set of what the authorities say, and of what this amazing novelist says that they say. [5]
- A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. [1]
- I could not help comparing some of the ancient cathedrals and abbey churches to so many old cheeses. [6]
- He could not help comparing her with the wretched Neforis; what was it that enabled one to bear the equal loss with so much more dignity than the other? [10]
- Next Day I have been comparing the new one with the old one, and it is perfectly plain that they are the same breed. [5]
- What mysterious fire had this night kindled in those calm eyes, which Alexander was fond of comparing to those of a gazelle? [10]
- There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics: that, namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. [6]
- Sometimes the party drove, extending their explorations miles among the hills, exhilarated by the sparkling air, excited by the succession of lovely changing prospects, bestowing their compassion upon the summer boarders in the smartly painted boarding-houses, and comparing the other big hotels with their own. [4]
- He did not disturb her, for it seemed as if he could never weary of comparing her features with the fadeless image his memory had treasured during all the vicissitudes of life. [10]
- Owing to this condition of mind, man cannot avoid looking both backwards and forwards, and comparing past impressions. [1]
- Could she be comparing the Londoner with the handsome American who sat by her side at the opera last night? [4]
- The most illustrious chiefs of the church wrote to the King extolling the Maid, comparing her to the saints and heroes of the Bible, and warning him not to let "unbelief, ingratitude, or other injustice" hinder or impair the divine help sent through her. [5]
- Friends are ever at hand to comfort every job; but few are they who come to share his heaviness, all the more so because all men take pleasure in comparing their own fair lot with the evil lot of others. [10]
- The Magians and astrologers had retired with knots of followers into the adjoining studies, where they were comparing registers, making calculations, reading signs, devising new formulas and defending them against their opponents. [10]
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