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Sentences ending with degrees

In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]
Day by day Venters watched the white of her face slowly change to brown, and the wasted cheeks fill out by imperceptible degrees. [13]
I didn't want to break him in suddenly, but do it by degrees. [5]
No--one at a time; break it to him by degrees. [5]
The next day the mercury stands at eighty degrees. [4]
Yet let me say here that pie, often foolishly abused, is a good creature, at the right time and in angles of thirty or forty degrees. [6]
Yet she was quiet and unmoving, now and then saying an encouraging word to Lapierre, who smacked his lips for miles afterwards, and took out of his horses their strength and paces by masterly degrees. [11]
Her shyness wore off by degrees. [4]
In one island of the Pacific he would find a small population of mingled Polynesian and English blood; and in the Fiji Archipelago a population of Polynesian and Negritos crossed in all degrees. [1]
The mercury then mounts to ninety degrees. [4]

Short sentences using degrees

By degrees I succeeded. [9]
Latitude 18 degrees 9 minutes. [5]
Latitude 17 degrees 54 minutes. [5]
Latitude 17 degrees 53 minutes. [5]

Sentences containing degrees two or more times

Computed position of the ship 112 degrees 10 minutes longitude, latitude 2 degrees above the equator; no wind, no sea--dead calm; temperature of the atmosphere, tropical, blistering, unimaginable by one who has not been roasted in it. [5]
The degrees of sterility do not coincide strictly with the degrees of difference between the parents in external structure or habits of life. [1]
Then came carryalls of all ages and degrees, wagons from this county and that county, giddily draped, drawn by horses from one to six, or by mules, their inscriptions addressing their senatorial candidate in all degrees of familiarity, but not contempt. [9]
Look at the map and see where the boat is: latitude 16 degrees 44 minutes, longitude 119 degrees 20 minutes. [5]
Even Fahrenheit's contrivance joins in the upward movement: the mercury has suddenly gone up from thirty degrees to sixty-five degrees. [4]
This tub is full of water which is as clear as crystal, and is tempered to 28 degrees Re'aumur (about 95 degrees Fahrenheit). [5]
The heat at eighty degrees of Fahrenheit is one thing and the heat at eighty degrees of Reaumur is a very different matter. [6]
Latitude 17 degrees 6 minutes, longitude 131 degrees 30 minutes. [5]
Latitude 18 degrees 40 minutes, longitude 142 degrees 34 minutes. [5]
Latitude 16 degrees 35 minutes N., longitude 136 degrees 30 minutes W. Night wet and uncomfortable. [5]

More example sentences with the word degrees in them

When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
This morning we were in longitude 178 west from Greenwich, and 57 degrees west from San Francisco. [5]
Then came a week of what the Muncheners call hot weather, with the thermometer up to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, and the white wide streets and gray buildings in a glare of light; since then, weather of the most uncertain sort. [4]
And hereafter it was to be slow, one turn at a time of the screws, squeezing by infinitesimal degrees the life out of her soul. [9]
Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature. [9]
Her eyes leaped up to brighter degrees of light, her face shone with a joy it had never reflected before, her blood rushed to her finger-tips. [11]
By gradual and unexplained degrees, the constitution of the State has been changed until there are only twenty senators. [9]
How was he to tell her the degrees by which he had been led into his present situation? [9]
I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
They were permitted to settle anywhere in territory between the 34th and 41st degrees of latitude. [4]
The king seemed to have forgotten the presence of strangers, and to be wholly absorbed in thought, but by degrees a change came over his face, it cleared, as a landscape is cleared from the morning mists under the influence of the spring sunshine. [10]
They can't seem to get north of 7 degrees N.; they are still there the next day: [Diary entry] May 12. [5]
When he came to form governments for the Territories north of the line of 36 degrees 30 minutes, why could he not have let that matter stand as it was standing? [7]
How was he to explain that these degrees had been so gradual that his conscience had had but a passing wrench here and there? [9]
For a long time she could not help clinging desperately to her faithful Betta, and it was only by degrees that she so far recovered herself as to be able to speak to the bishop, and thank him. [10]
We are all theological students, and more of us qualified as doctors of divinity than have received degrees at any of the universities. [6]
They disputed amongst themselves in various degrees of English as to the manner of treating the red man,--now gesticulating, now threatening, now seizing a rolled parchment treaty from the table. [9]
As a consequence the workers in the field were increasing by degrees, and the reform was steadily spreading. [5]
I next boiled the thermometer, and got a most excellent result; the mercury went up to about 200 degrees Fahrenheit. [5]
Thus, by degrees, the temple of the idol of Sinope degenerated into a stronghold of deceit and bloodshed, of the basest superstition, the pleasures of the flesh, and abominations that cried to Heaven. [10]
Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation of his fellows; his corps are ashamed of him: they call him "hare foot," which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted. [5]
Thus by degrees the sense of belonging to a special priesthood had grown on me. [9]
Mechanically he did the same: his pulses beat more calmly, by degrees the visions faded from his senses, he saw and heard once more, and his brain recovered its balance. [10]
At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
So by degrees the man who serves as model approaches. [6]
In January, 1880, the heat at Adelaide, South Australia, was 172 degrees in the sun. [5]
First they found the great sycamore-chest which you had told me to take great care of too, then the papyrus-rolls on your writing-table, and so by degrees every written paper in the house. [10]
Thirty-two degrees marks the freezing point. [6]
By infinitesimal degrees the dark cloud-line merged upward into the golden-red haze of the afterglow of sunset. [13]
Thus, by degrees, the city emerges the banners of the haughty chiefs of Spain, and flaunted in triumph through these Moslem halls. [4]
Bluff is at the bottom of the middle island, and is away down south, nearly forty-seven degrees below the equator. [5]
Here we see, that, even among berries, there are degrees of breeding. [4]
The choice of terms is only so far important in that it is desirable to use, as far as possible, the same terms for the same degrees of difference. [1]
For action he takes special degrees, capacity, skill, trustworthiness; for perception, consciousness, insight, clearness. [10]
Even now its strings gave forth a glorious tone; by degrees he began to rejoice in his own playing, and music soothed his excitement, as it had often done before. [10]
She had for some minutes heard a murmuring sound which reached her from an inner chamber; but it was only by degrees that she collected herself so far as to listen more closely, to ascertain whence it came and what it could mean. [10]
The door slammed so that the house shook, and by degrees the smith's heavy tread died away in the vestibule. [10]
We have got so far east, now--a hundred and fifty-five degrees of longitude from San Francisco--that my watch can not "keep the hang" of the time any more. [5]
As soon as she felt one hand was hot, she put the other in its place; and it must have relieved the patient, for his moans ceased by degrees, and he finally said, gratefully: "What good that does me! [10]
By degrees, the sense of authority and power to heal passed out from the consciousness of the Church. [5]
Those who are seated in the carriage do not observe that they are doing down a declivity of twenty to twenty-five degrees (their seats being adapted to this course of proceeding and being bent down at their backs). [5]
Now, if on Saturday night at a moment before midnight we could fly in an instant to a point fifteen degrees west of here, he would hold possession of the power another hour, for the change observes local time and no other. [5]
The thermometer then registered 117 degrees in the shade. [5]
By degrees she regained composure, and she was rising, sensible of being relieved of a weighty burden, when a sudden start on Lassiter's part alarmed her. [13]
The worshipper is received into an ample court, but by degrees the walls on either side approach one another, the halls become less lofty, all is gradually tending towards one point. [10]
The Vicomtesse sat quietly watching him, the wonted look of repressed laughter on her face, and by degrees his Excellency grew calm again. [9]
There is no question that certain persons who are born among us find themselves many degrees too far north. [6]
We have our own social degrees, and choose our own associates. [4]
At eleven o'clock on the following day we who were to receive degrees met at Balliol College, whence we proceeded in solemn procession to the Sheldonian Theatre. [6]
This happened so often, that Mr Swiveller by degrees began to feel strange influences creeping over him--horrible desires to annihilate this Sally Brass--mysterious promptings to knock her head-dress off and try how she looked without it. [12]
In the course of his talk he rambled into a criticism upon New England degrees of merit in ship building. [5]
There were wounds of all degrees of severity, but I heard no groans or murmurs. [6]
By degrees the nuns ventured out on deck again. [10]
Your sister must not at present hear of your father's death; when your future lot is to some extent secure we will tell her by degrees all that has occurred. [10]
Mr. Cooke was not a person who made any great distinction between the three degrees, acquaintance, friendship, and intimacy. [9]
By degrees the noise drew most of the inmates of the castle out of doors, and among them Frau Lerch. [10]
As we have no record of the lines of descent, the pedigree can be discovered only by observing the degrees of resemblance between the beings which are to be classed. [1]
The artist and Miss Lamont, in search of the picturesque, had the courage, although the thermometer was in the humor to climb up to ninety degrees, to explore the Baptist encampment. [4]
By degrees it lulled and died away, and then it came on to snow. [12]
Sure enough "the Lord" was just turning a point a short distance up the river, and while they looked the lights winked out and the coughing diminished by degrees and presently ceased altogether. [5]
When the soft light was in his eye it meant approval, and delivered a benediction; when he came with a frown he lowered the temperature ten degrees. [5]
By degrees they let him know that doubts have arisen, that inquiries are to be made, and perhaps he may be pardoned after all. [12]
By degrees Florette learned to meet his discontent with a shrug of her shoulders, and to arrange her life in her own way. [10]
Forty-two degrees, north latitude, Rome, Sir, Boston, Sir! [6]
Twenty degrees of latitude lay between his birthplace and Manuel's, and fifteen hundred between their ways and characters and dispositions. [5]
The corporators named in the second colony were Thomas Hankam, Raleigh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Popham, representing Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth, and the west counties, who were authorized to make a settlement anywhere between the 38th and 48th degrees of latitude. [4]
But the angle if measured at the pier is seven degrees; that is, we would have to move the pier seven degrees to make it exactly straight with the current. [7]
Even you and I, philosophers and philanthropists as we may think ourselves, have a dislike for the enforced economies, proper and honorable though they certainly are, of those who are two or three degrees below us in the scale of agreeable living. [6]
It is proper, however, to inform them, that some of the positions maintained in these pages have been unsparingly attacked, with various degrees of ability, scholarship, and good-breeding. [6]
By slow degrees, however, he was reconciled to him in the end; and even went so far as to honour him with his patronage, as one who had in some measure reformed, and was therefore to be forgiven. [12]
Genealogy--his own--had become his religion, and instead of going to church he spent his Sunday mornings poring over papers of various degrees of discolouration, making careful notes on the ruled block. [9]
The throbbing in his head yielded to her gentle touch, and by degrees exhaustion gave way to the comfortable languor of convalesence. [10]
By slower degrees his friendship for Jane Withersteen and his contrition drifted from the active preoccupation of his present thought to a place in memory, with more and more infrequent recalls. [13]
By degrees, however, her smooth brow contracted in an anxious frown, and she gasped in low tones: "Well, all is well . [10]
Now she dried her eyes, and her eased heart felt the beneficial relief of tears; by degrees she could compose herself and think calmly. [10]
By slow degrees he resumed his sitting posture after that lapse of time, and inquired: 'And where do you live, Marchioness? [12]
But, by degrees, he grasped the purport of whole sentences, and now he understood all that they said, not a word of their further conversation escaped him, and it was absorbing enough, though it revealed a gulf from which he shrank shuddering. [10]
By degrees we have drifted into more spiritual latitudes of thought, and experimented as we advanced until demonstrating fully the power of mind over the body. [5]
No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope--a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude. [5]
The piloting material has been uncovering itself by degrees, until it has exposed such a huge hoard to my view that a whole book will be required to contain it if I use it. [5]
On the other hand there were signs that modern science, by infinitesimal degrees, might be aiding in the solution of the Mystery . [9]
By degrees he had reduced these questionings to a system. [10]
To-day we have had it very variable, and hope we are on the northern edge, thought we are not much above 7 degrees. [5]
Others of the group were of varying degrees of ability and interest and importance. [11]
A vague consciousness grew upon me by degrees, and then came a gathering anguish of pain in my limbs and through all my body. [5]
Like every other gift, no doubt that of religious sensibility is bestowed in different degrees on different natures. [10]
I have not forgotten my very cordial reception, which made me feel almost as much at home in the old Cambridge as in the new, where I was born and took my degrees, academic, professional, and honorary. [6]
Away down here fifty-five degrees south of the Equator this sea seems to murmur in an unfamiliar tongue--a foreign tongue--tongue bred among the ice-fields of the Antarctic--a murmur with a note of melancholy in it proper to the vast unvisited solitudes it has come from. [5]
We've covered about fifteen degrees of longitude since we left St. Louis yesterday afternoon, and them clocks are right. [5]
By degrees the fever vanished; consciousness returned, his pain lessened, he could move himself again, and began to feel stronger. [10]
Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. [2]
Then it soon falls, at first slowly, but by degrees quicker and quicker. [10]
We are within eight degrees of it. [5]
The farm of Egger produces corn, wheat, grass, and sheep; it is a good enough farm, but most of it lies at an angle of thirty-five to forty degrees. [4]
By degrees, these dwindled away and disappeared or were replaced, here and there, by a feeble rush-candle which was to burn all night. [12]
We overcame by degrees the distastefulness of the discussion of ways and means.... We spent an unforgettable Sunday among the distant high hills, beside a little lake of our own discovery, its glinting waters sapphire and chrysoprase. [9]

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