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As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. [6]
We took our way carefully and cautiously across the great Glacier des Bossons, over yawning and terrific crevices and among imposing crags and buttresses of ice which were fringed with icicles of gigantic proportions. [5]
The crowds continued to come, prices of land rose high, then higher and still higher, everybody was prosperous and happy, the boom swelled into gigantic proportions. [5]
And it needs to be pretty broad to support a traffic of such enormous proportions. [4]
Out of the three hundred there are not half a dozen well-conditioned, filled out physically in comfortable proportions. [4]
The shapes of those who pass into the dimness are outlined in monstrous proportions. [4]
The result of this modern investigation has been to discredit much of the romance gathered about Smith and Pocahontas, and a good deal to reduce his heroic proportions. [4]
Small wonder that the way in front of it was blocked by a crowd lost in admiration of its Gothic proportions! [9]
Instead of winning the credit and commendation he had expected, he now found himself pursued by claims of considerable proportions. [5]
Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions? [7]

More example sentences with the word proportions in them

The colored divisions will smartly show to the eye the difference in the length of the reigns and impress the proportions on the memory and the understanding. [5]
Simple as it was, an architect would have said that its proportions were nearly perfect. [9]
The obelisk is very common, and when in just proportions and of respectable dimensions is unobjectionable. [6]
His great height, vast proportions, and silent ways gave him a place apart, and added to the superstitious feeling by which he was surrounded. [11]
Necessarily, then, these various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,--so vaguely and indefinitely, that its course, proportions, and locality were hardly even guessable. [5]
Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual. [10]
Now, I wish to know what the Judge can charge upon me, with respect to decisions of the Supreme Court, which does not lie in all its length, breadth, and proportions at his own door. [7]
We come now to an incident which assumes the proportions of an episode-even of a catastrophe--in Mark Twain's career. [5]
And presently, near to a lake, there was a great gateway, and perched upon a rock near it a chateau of divine proportions, on which was written above the perfect doorway: "The Keeper of the House awaits thee. [11]
Mark Twain's response this time assumed the proportions of a letter. [5]
Her feelings towards this thing did not assume the proportions of jealousy or fear; they were merely alert, vaguely disquieting. [9]
From these observations, there can, I think, be no doubt that residence during many generations at a great elevation tends, both directly and indirectly, to induce inherited modifications in the proportions of the body. [1]
The pupil impresses the proportions on his mind. [10]
Behind us, on the opposite shore, set round about with a wealth of foliage, was the Castle of Rheinstein, a fortress more pleasing in its proportions and situation than any other. [4]
Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
Do you realize the gigantic proportions of it? [5]
The fact is, the freighting business had grown to such important proportions that there was nearly as much excitement over suddenly acquired toll-road fortunes as over the wonderful silver mines. [5]
And a holiday that takes on such proportions that the Express companies and the Post-office cannot handle it is in danger of a collapse. [4]
These vagaries of taste, which disfigure or destroy correct proportions or hide deformities, are nowhere more evident than in the illustrations of works of fiction. [4]
I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round. [6]
It is a subject of congratulation and laudable pride to our countrymen that a Navy of such vast proportions has been organized in so brief a period and conducted with so much efficiency and success. [7]
They can go straight ahead, but their huge proportions are not adapted for rapid movement. [11]
Yet slowly, surely, steadily, in the course of my fifteen visits, the proportions adjusted themselves to the facts, and I came at last to realize that a waterfall a hundred and sixty-five feet high and a quarter of a mile wide was an impressive thing. [5]
Even in this state it reached from floor to ceiling; and thrusting itself forward, with that excessively wide-awake aspect, and air of somewhat obtrusive politeness, by which figure-heads are usually characterised, seemed to reduce everything else to mere pigmy proportions. [12]
It reminded me, somehow, of one of those colossal billows which swells suddenly up beside one's ship, at sea, sometimes, with its crest and shoulders snowy white, and the rest of its noble proportions streaked downward with creamy foam. [5]
Five weeks of soaking --five uninterrupted hours of it every day--had accomplished her purpose and reduced her to the right proportions. [5]
In its innumerable shades and enlarging proportions, it is a triumph of the gardener. [4]
He was a river-driver of stalwart proportions, with a red handkerchief round his neck, and with loose corded trousers tucked into his boots. [11]
The shape is right, the attitude is right, the proportions are right, but that indescribable something which makes the Lion of Lucerne the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world, is wanting. [5]
I not only renewed it, but added to its proportions. [5]
A controversy in regard to it rapidly grew into almost unmanageable proportions. [7]
It was only reasonable in the vast proportions of eternity. [11]
For the foregoing proportions, I am indebted to Mr. Salvin for a table of his results. [1]
The canyon assumed proportions that dwarfed those of its first ten miles. [13]
These are the proportions of a candle; and fair and fairylike candles these are. [5]
Stripped, Iberville's splendid proportions could be seen at advantage. [11]
There is no presumption against any of this class of substances, any more than against water or salt, provided they are used in fitting combinations, proportions, and forms. [3]
There sat down opposite to us a fat man whose noble proportions occupied at the board the space of three ordinary men. [4]
After the death of William the Silent, the history assumes world-wide proportions. [6]
The wild horse of the Falkland Islands and of the Western States of N. America is polygamous, but, except in his greater size and in the proportions of his body, differs but little from the mare. [1]
On a platform of rocks and mighty masonry rose a structure of wonderful magnificence and beauty, so brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun that its noble proportions and gorgeous colors showed in dazzling splendor and relief. [10]
But the hopelessness of explaining this took on, now, the proportions of a tragedy. [9]
The painter had never conceived that a New England conscience and a temper of no mean proportions could dwell together in the body of a wood nymph. [9]
Within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions that I could have used it as a crutch. [5]
We never saw Mont Blanc at his best until we were many miles away; then he lifted his majestic proportions high into the heavens, all white and cold and solemn, and made the rest of the world seem little and plebeian, and cheap and trivial. [5]
Since that agonizing moment when her eyes had met his own among the curiously vulgar at the Fair, Stephen's fear of meeting Virginia had grown to the proportions of a terror. [9]
For he had managed, in the course of a long political career, to combine in exact proportions these elements which, in the public mind, should up the personality of a chief executive. [9]
We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it. [2]
Gradually the home life and every-day interests began to assume their natural aspect and proportions. [4]
Where the temperament is two-thirds happy, or two-thirds unhappy, no political or religious beliefs can change the proportions. [5]
And to Austen, in the twilight in front of Jabe Jenney's, the affair might well have assumed the proportions of an intimacy of long standing rather than that of the chance acquaintance of an hour. [9]
I have been in the Doge's palace and I saw several acres of very bad drawing, very bad perspective, and very incorrect proportions. [5]
The Virginian expanded in Kentucky is not the same man he was at home, and the New England Yankee let loose in the West takes on proportions that would astonish his grandfather. [4]
Vast as are his physical proportions, I knew that the thirst for revenge would penetrate to the remotest frontiers of his person. [5]
It is necessary here to present several accounts, just as they stand, and in the order in which they were written, that the reader may see for himself how the story of Pocahontas grew to its final proportions. [4]
Presently, however, as he watched Orpheus gazing in speechless delight at its magnificent proportions he could not forbear. [10]
He rose as he spoke, until his stature seemed to swell into the fair human proportions. [6]
So much had happened in the past three years; there had been so much adulation and worship and daring assault upon her heart--or emotions--from quarters of unusual distinction, that the finest sense of her was blunted, and true proportions were lost. [11]
Henderson, who certainly had excitement enough without seeking it at home, was pleased that his wife should be a leader in society, as he was in the great enterprises in which his fortune waxed to enormous proportions. [4]
He had the gift of looking at a thing in its true proportions, perhaps because he had little emotion and a strong brain, or perhaps because early in life his emotions were rationalised. [11]
To the younger generation Abraham Lincoln has already become a half-mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows to more and more heroic proportions, but also loses in distinctness of outline and feature. [7]
He built his foundation so large that it needed the full age of man to make evident the plan and proportions of his character. [6]
Well, when my fort was built to such proportions that a small ladder must be used to fix new mud and mortar in place upon it, something happened. [11]
Heinz usually soon forgot any such trivial disappointment, but the difficulty threatening himself and Katterle was far worse--nay, might even assume terrible proportions. [10]
Presently they stood, face to face, across a table reduced to its smallest proportions, in the tempered light of a vast dining-room, an apartment that seemed to symbolize the fortress-like properties of wealth. [9]
There is an equally great amount of diversity in the proportions and dimensions of the various parts of the body; the length of the legs being one of the most variable points. [1]
This is an encampment on the edge of a continent, the proportions of which are unknown, the form of which is only conjectured. [4]
The proportions of each arm and the details of enrollment and organization will be made known through the Department of War. [7]
Certainly he never dreamed of undertaking anything of the proportions of the Grant book. [5]
Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold. [9]
Nevertheless, in the cases of some few wild animals, as shewn in the supplement, the proportions seem to fluctuate either during different seasons or in different localities in a sufficient degree to lead to such selection. [1]
Nothing now remains but to weigh it; then the proportions of the several metals contained in the brick are known, and the assayer stamps the value of the brick upon its surface. [5]
She had a broad, low forehead, Greek in its proportions and lines. [11]
Their language well beseemed their proportions, "sounding from them as it were a great voice in a vault or cave, as an ecco. [4]
In the space before the parish church it stands--a broken shaft, with an unwound wreath straying down its sides; a monument of fine proportions, a white figure of beaten valour and erring ardour of youth and beautiful bad ambition. [11]
Iberville had never before seen this lake, and, with all his knowledge of great proportions, he was not prepared for its splendid vastness. [11]
Yet the task, at this nearer view, took on proportions overwhelming--so dense was that curtain at which he gazed. [9]
New and formidable aspects, hitherto unthought of, rose in his mind, and the figure of Eldon Parr loomed to Brobdingnagian proportions as he approached it. [9]
Laurillard remarks, that as he has found a complete similarity in the form, proportions, and connection of the two malar bones in several human subjects and in certain apes, he cannot consider this disposition of the parts as simply accidental. [1]
As the proportions are known with certainty only in mankind, I will first give them as a standard of comparison. [1]
I grant that after saying these strong things, it is necessary that I offer some details calculated to satisfactorily demonstrate the proportions which I have claimed for her. [5]
In spite of a tremulous effort to govern herself and see the situation as it really was--an effort of one who desired her good to bring her and Rudyard together, the ruse itself became magnified to monstrous proportions, and her spirit suddenly revolted. [11]
But he had a perverse sense of her beauty, and he knew a sort of life in which her power to molest him with her temper could be reduced to the smallest proportions, and even broken to pieces. [8]
From our bricks a little corner was chipped off for the "fire-assay"--a method used to determine the proportions of gold, silver and base metals in the mass. [5]
These returns exhibit a curious annual uniformity in results; the sort of uniformity which you find in the annual output of suicides in the world's capitals, and the proportions of deaths by this, that, and the other disease. [5]

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