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Sentences ending with proportion

The insertion of that account would swell this book, already too long, out of all proportion. [9]
It had the pinkish look of a wax doll, but lacked the doll's roundness of limb and approximation to correctness of form and justness of proportion. [5]
When you get over there and take command of your men you'll see things in a truer proportion. [9]
But not at once, not for ten years, and in instalments of which Orion himself was to determine the proportion. [10]
In India their number is beyond estimate, and their noise is in proportion. [5]
He was not massively made, but from crown to heel there was perfect muscular proportion. [11]
According to the load the vehicle is expected to carry, they are few or many, stout or slender, but they share their joint labor with absolute justice,--not one does more, not one does less, than its just proportion. [6]
Other things were in proportion. [5]
Gervase Markham in his "English Housewife," after treating of the ordering of great feasts, gives directions for "a more humble feast of an ordinary proportion. [4]
I do not hesitate to say, however, that the expenses of this campaign, at this early stage, seem to me out of all proportion. [9]

Sentences containing proportion two or more times

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 suppose it gives one proportion, though I've been told by Donovan Pasha and the Consul that I have no sense of proportion. [11]

More example sentences with the word proportion in them

What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
But her mind, which was, after all, vastly larger in proportion than the body enshrining it, felt suddenly that both were lost in a universe. [11]
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]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
His trouble now was in proportion to the force of his character. [11]
These two had vowed never to let each other sleep, that so their time for repentance might be doubled, and their bliss in the next world enhanced in proportion to their mortifications in this. [10]
And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
It is a very expensive country, especially so in the matter of education, and one cannot but reflect whether the result is in proportion to the outlay. [4]
Many things are uncertain in this world, and among them the effect of a large proportion of the remedies prescribed by physicians. [6]
It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape and grow and thrive in the South, and in precisely the same proportion it is important to us that it shall. [7]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
So true is this, that I have doubts whether a large proportion of them would not have been rather pleased than offended, if they could have overheard our, talk. [6]
In proportion as their fortunes and their popularity declined, and their once notable position as an old family became scarce a memory even, the pride of the Lavilettes increased. [11]
His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. [5]
The results of the vast crime of the 13th January have been in just proportion to the magnitude of the set itself. [5]
The results of the vast crime of the 13th January have been in just proportion to the magnitude of the act itself. [5]
Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented. [7]
But according to the records of the medical profession, as they have been hitherto interpreted, this is true of only a very small proportion of useful remedies. [3]
But just in the proportion that she gets them, and because she has them, will be the need of higher education. [4]
To speak technically, the masterpiece of literature is characterized by the same knowledge of proportion and perspective as the masterpiece in art. [4]
Upon the instant the great Earl was incensed out of all proportion to the affront of the Seigneur's existence. [11]
In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase. [2]
Of course in the beginning there is a good deal of revenue from this source, but the revenue diminishes as the club improves, so that we have the anomaly of its failure to be self-supporting in proportion to its excellence. [4]
Paragraph 14 of the ausgleich fixes the proportion each country must pay to the support of the army. [5]
It strikes me that these expenses are out of all proportion to the simplicity of the task involved. [9]
I am told that the proportion of Etonians of killed to wounded is greater than that of any other public school--which is saying a great deal. [9]
Is it true that in England, where a great proportion of the fiction we describe and loathe is produced; is it true that in our New England society there is nothing but frivolity, sordidness, decay of purity and faith, ignoble ambition and ignoble living? [4]
Shame seized him that he had let passion be his master, that he had lost his self-control, had taken a revenge out of all proportion to the injury and insult to himself. [11]
She admired his talent in proportion as she learned more of artists, and perceived how uncommon it was; but she said to herself that if she were going to devote herself to art, she would do it at first-hand. [8]
It began to take on the aspect of a great lottery, in which one class expected to draw in reverse proportion to what it put in, and another class knew that it would only reap as it had sowed. [4]
An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated. [2]
Reverses did not subdue Mr. Willett's spirits, and the fascination modern "business" had for him seemed to grow in proportion to the misfortunes it had caused him. [9]
But in Dey Street she gained calmness, was able to renew something of that sense of proportion the lack of which, in the chaos in which she was engulfed, often brought her to the verge of madness. [9]
From this fact spring a great proportion of the errors of medical practice. [6]
They've got ever so much more sense, and brains, and brightness, in proportion to their size, than any other cretur in the world. [5]
I have long since learned that the perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambition to our capacities; we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. [5]
His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer-barrel on skids. [4]
But with domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly fixed character; for a certain proportion of the merino ewes bear small horns, and some of the rams are hornless; and in most breeds hornless ewes are occasionally produced. [1]
She maintained that she had never understood Victoria, and it was characteristic of Mrs. Pomfret that her respect increased in direct proportion to her lack of understanding. [9]
In proportion as Richard's interest in Lali had grown, the universal quality of his sympathy had declined. [11]
She had a repute for good works which was out of proportion to the works, as it always is, but she was really active in that way, under the vague obligation, which we now all feel, to be helpful. [8]
And thus, in proportion to her true, firm regard for Miss Martineau, did Miss Bronte suffer under what she considered her misjudgment not merely of writing, but of character. [14]
And a large proportion of the descendants of those who have governed England for centuries are apparently imbued with the spirit of this adventure, even though it may spell the end of their exclusive rule. [9]
Eseldorf had its proportion of such people, and ordinarily their good and gentle influence was felt, but these were not ordinary times--on account of the witch-dread--and so we did not seem to have any gentle and compassionate hearts left, to speak of. [5]
But a vast proportion of it is the product of immature minds, and of a yearning for experience rather than a knowledge of life. [4]
The above average proportion of 110.1 to 100 is probably nearly correct in the case of the greyhound, but whether it would hold with other domesticated breeds is in some degree doubtful. [1]
That was the proportion among the Apostles, at any rate. [6]
He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. [5]
He had a prodigious length of face, the nose long in proportion, but not prominent. [9]
Poorly as her prodigal labors were repaid in proportion to the waste of life they cost, her value was too well established to leave her without what, under other circumstances, would have been a more than sufficient compensation. [6]
There is a prejudice against the spoken lie, but none against any other, and by examination and mathematical computation I find that the proportion of the spoken lie to the other varieties is as 1 to 22,894. [5]
A few Moorish pillars, brought from Algiers for the decoration of the entrance, had necessitated the raising of the roof, and then all had to be in proportion, and the cottage became like an appanage to a palace. [11]
During the early part of his purely literary career a large proportion of Warner's collected writings, which then appeared, were first published in the Atlantic Monthly. [4]
The reaction from pain was in proportion to her splendid natural health. [11]
As to those other coopers, they found their position curiously changed--they were important people, or unimportant, now, in proportion as to how large or how small had been their intercourse with the new celebrity. [5]
The proportion of opposition to that measure is about five to one. [7]
Hence, the beginning of their great industries, which made England rich in proportion as her authority and chance of trade expanded over distant islands and continents. [4]
A large proportion of the assembly being residents for the summer, there was so much of the family content that the transient tourists could little disturb it by the introduction of their element of worry and haste. [4]
At the time of the ancient kingdom the forms were compressed and stunted; under Seti I. beauty of proportion reached its highest point. [10]
A large number of substances commonly thought to be inert develop great medicinal powers when prepared in the manner already described; and a great proportion of them are ascertained to have specific antidotes in case their excessive effects require to be neutralized. [3]
But the honey of sensuous description is spread so deeply over the surface of the goblet that a large proportion of its readers never think of its holding anything else. [6]
When the quantity of money shall be reduced, and consequently everything under individual control brought down in proportion, the price of those lands, being fixed by law, will remain as now. [7]
That was part of Margaret's originality, which pleased her aunt in proportion to her own conventionality; she was really a timid person, and she liked the show of courage which Margaret's magnanimity often reflected upon her. [8]
Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements. [2]
I have a notion that the State of Maine breeds the natural nobility in a larger proportion than some other States, but they spring up in all sorts of out-of-the-way places. [6]
The Towers are not tall, but are low in proportion to their circumference, like a gasometer. [5]
Are not these newspapers a fair index of the proportion of the votes? [7]
It was but natural, perhaps, in the situation in which our heroine found herself, that she should have lost her sense of proportion to the extent of regarding this lady in the light of a remorseless dragon barring her only path to peace. [9]
The young wives must find their lords wofully ignorant, in a large proportion of cases. [6]
Our reverence becomes more worthy, or, if you will, less unworthy of its Infinite Object in proportion as our intelligence is lifted and expanded to a higher and broader understanding of the Divine methods of action. [3]
Supposing that not more than one cure in three hundred which the Tractors have performed has been published, and the proportion is probably much greater, it will be seen that the number, to March last, will have exceeded one million five hundred thousand! [3]
His reluctance irritated March in proportion to his insincerity in proposing to look at it at all. [8]
He was a man whose image time with difficulty obliterates, whose presence was a shining thing: so she had grown to value it in proportion as she had had less of it. [9]
Form--there is nothing like form and proportion in life. [11]
He is just like any other rabbit, except that he is from one third to twice as large, has longer legs in proportion to his size, and has the most preposterous ears that ever were mounted on any creature but a jackass. [5]
It was a larger proportion than would afterward be allowed, but for once in a way it was allowed. [8]
President Allen of Jefferson College says that his instruction has been successful in proportion as it has been elementary. [3]
It is because it seems evident that a fair statement of the facts must produce its proper influence on a very large proportion of well-constituted and unprejudiced minds. [3]
If we had it in a ship in the same proportion, we could spin from Liverpool to New York in the space of an hour--the time it takes to eat luncheon. [5]
The mosaic pictures in the dome were huge, and were made of thousands and thousands of cubes of glass as large as the end of my little finger, but those pictures looked smooth, and gaudy of color, and in good proportion to the dome. [5]
When one is in one of those villages it seems spacious, and its houses seem high and not out of proportion to the mountain that overhands them--but from our altitude, what a change! [5]
A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. [6]
Some years ago I ventured to show in an introductory Lecture how very small a proportion of the anatomical facts taught in a regular course, as delivered by myself and others, had any practical bearing whatever on the treatment of disease. [3]
In proportion as I lost poise she seemed to gain it. [9]
Well, of course I don't mean that, exactly; but it don't pay in proportion to the regular thing. [5]
Without disparaging any, I affirm with confidence that no commander of that department has, in proportion to his means, done better than General Schofield. [7]
There were a hundred and seventeen assessments to one dividend, and the proportion of income to outlay was a little against me. [5]
You know exactly how low people must bow before the princess in proportion to their rank, and have no idea how a back-bone is made. [10]
Rivington called upon Honora in vehicles of all descriptions, in proportion to the improvidence or prosperity of the owners. [9]
It took a hold on him out of all proportion to its importance. [11]
Her tragedy was his tragedy; not in the same proportion, perhaps; nevertheless, he had the air of one who would die of it. [9]
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]
This man before him had the duplicity or evasion of the Oriental; delicately in proportion to his great ability, yet it was there--though in less degree than in any Arab he had ever known. [11]
The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. [2]
Once or twice he had stolen a glance at her as she sat, perfectly at ease, and asked himself whether she had beauty, and it dawned upon him little by little that the very proportion she possessed made for physical unobtrusiveness. [9]
When the artist has arranged his materials with an eye to just proportion --the small and the large flakes in alternate rows, and separated by carefully-considered intervals--I know of nothing more cheerful to look upon than a spirited Syrian fresco. [5]

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