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Sentences ending with scale

But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. [4]
Like my grapes which the spies bore out of the Promised Land, I have got every thing in Palestine on too large a scale. [5]
My idea was to strike you for the necessary funds, and do the thing on a handsome scale. [8]
Besides, there was the yard to cross and the outer wall to scale. [11]
You have just the same situation in Elkington, on a smaller scale. [9]
The denudation of the land was upon a grand scale. [5]
It was he, the fanatic, who saw things in the larger scale! [9]
This had been the extent of Nathan's religion; Jethro had none at all, and was, for this and other reasons, somewhere near the bottom of the social scale. [9]
The ships containing the advance guard of the colonists destined for the new Louisiana lay in the roads at Dunkirk, their anchors ready to weigh,--three thousand men, three thousand horses, for the Man did things on a large scale. [9]
For it meant that the bishop, too, must enter into a conflict with the first layman of his diocese, of whose hospitality he had so often partaken, whose contributions had been on so lordly a scale. [9]

Short sentences using scale

The whole scale has altered. [4]

Sentences containing scale two or more times

He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
This experiment on the great scale has since been repeated on the small scale by the aid of other contrivances. [6]
Annapolis might be said to be London on a small scale, --but on a very small scale. [9]
Everything "contra" is carefully placed in one scale of the balance, and it is always satisfactory and convincing to see how quickly it kicks the beam when love is placed in the other scale. [4]

More example sentences with the word scale in them

We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
Here was a young gentleman who never heard of the Lord Mayor's scale of charges. [9]
This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
The garrison replied with yells of defiance and well-directed shots, hurling back the invaders when they attempted to scale the walls. [4]
He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business. [8]
Look at what we've worked out in large scale production and distribution in this war! [9]
If my plan were carried out, and another series of a dozen English trees photographed on the same scale the comparison would be charming. [6]
But there are weighty matters 'twixt France and England, and De la Foret may turn the scale one way or another. [11]
It has been urged against the views here maintained that it is impossible to say at what point in the ascending scale animals become capable of abstraction, etc. [1]
The Titans have tried to scale the heavens, and have fallen into the most degrading materialism. [4]
You were born to power in a small way; I have won mine myself, and shall not rest until I am permitted to exercise it on a great scale, nay, the grandest. [10]
It would appeal to him on some grand scale, with real danger and, say, a few scores of thousands of pounds at stake--not unless. [11]
The wax began to display in a much reduced scale the whole figure of the beautiful youth and in the very same attitude which the young Dionysus carried off by the pirates, had assumed the day before. [10]
When you ascend the scale of being, and come to an animal that is, like ourselves, inedible, you have arrived at a result where you can rest. [4]
Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
Organization may reduce the power of the will to nothing, as in some idiots; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards by slight gradations. [6]
Gradations, also, in the muscles leading to structures found in animals still lower in the scale, are numerous in the Lemuroidea. [1]
I have seen the Mantis religiosa on a larger scale than this, now and then. [6]
When I beheld the first Persians scale the walls of Sardis, I execrated myself and the gods, life appeared odious to me, existence a curse. [10]
Wildcats might scale the fence, but no coyote could come in to search for prey, and no rabbits or other small game could escape from the valley. [13]
I am satisfied, that, much higher up in the scale of life, character is distinctly shown at the age of--2 or--3 months. [6]
It looks like that, for the legends are built on so vast a scale that it does not seem reasonable that plodding priests would happen upon such colossal fancies when awake. [5]
The trouble was that every thing in it and about it was on such a scale of uniform vastness that there were no contrasts to judge by--none but the people, and I had not noticed them. [5]
I trust the tariff of Heaven has an ad valorem scale for them--and all of us. [6]
Then they make such fools of us by copying on a small scale what we do in the grand manner. [6]
He conceived every subject on so grand a scale that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it. [4]
In a second species of the same genus a terminal scale forms a minute horn on the summit of the flexible appendage; and in a third species (C. Stoddartii, fig. [1]
Crack after crack sounded from the forest--from here and there and everywhere, it seemed--and with a song that like a hurtling insect ran the scale of notes, the bullets buried themselves in the trunk of our oak with a chug. [9]
Parental affection, or some feeling which replaces it, has been developed in certain animals extremely low in the scale, for example, in star-fishes and spiders. [1]
Everything is on so gigantic a scale. [5]
I have never since ventured to undertake anything on so grand a scale. [10]
It is very significant that the criminal class adapted itself readily to the parole system with its sliding scale. [4]
A proposition to sell that by itself to a big house could be made without embarrassment we merely confess that we cannot spare capital from the rest of the business to run it on the huge scale necessary to make it an opulent success. [5]
In the diplomatic scale Washington still ranks below the Sublime Porte, but this anomaly is due to tradition, and does not represent England's real estimate of the status of the republic. [4]
Denny prepared to scale it, and we got ready to follow. [5]
The difference of scale does not stop here; it runs through a great part of the objects of thought and conversation. [6]
They have the same scale, the same fixed points, the same record: no wonder they prefer each other's company! [6]
But he suddenly remembered that he had on his best trousers, and the idea of carrying the marks of his devotion in the shape of two dusty impressions on his most valued article of apparel turned the scale against the demonstration. [6]
I dislike to refer to what I have already done in the matter of charities, but I hinted to you awhile ago of a project I have conceived and almost perfected of gifts on a much larger scale than I have ever attempted. [9]
The pyramid is rarely seen, perhaps because it takes up so much room; and when built on a small scale seems insignificant as we think of it, dwarfed by the vast structures of antiquity. [6]
We are also quite ignorant at how rapid a rate organisms, whether high or low in the scale, may be modified under favourable circumstances; we know, however, that some have retained the same form during an enormous lapse of time. [1]
The matter in question was a statue of Urania, which must be completed in eight days by the same method which Papias had introduced at the last festival of Adonis, and to the scale which he, Pontius, indicated, in the palace of Lochias itself. [10]
Whether a great poet or not will depend on the scale we use and the meaning we affix to the term. [6]
No church or organization, looked out for these frowsy, blear-eyed and ragged wanderers who had failed to find a place in the scale of efficiency. [9]
Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other. [7]
Nain is Magdala on a small scale. [5]
But everything was on a scale so vast that it was difficult to localize these petty incidents (big as they were in consequences), and the party soon abandoned history and geography for the enjoyment of the moment. [4]
What a spectacle of youth on a grand scale is this! [4]
The infamous words of Theodotus, 'Dead dogs no longer bite,' had turned the scale. [10]
A sliding scale of reduction of 10 per cent a year has a sort of plausible look, and I am willing to try that if three other powers will join. [5]
Another experience was of a different sort, and illustrates the Italian love of bargaining, and their notion of a sliding scale of prices. [4]
When, on many occasions, pros and tons were equal in weight, she brought out the cards, and this oracle generally turned the scale. [10]
She was perplexed now and then by her husband's business, but did it differ from that of other men she had known, except that it was on a larger scale? [4]
If this be not running the full scale of life's enjoyment, pray you what is? [11]
Now I am not preaching at this moment; I may read you one of my sermons some other morning; but I maintain that gambling, on the great scale, is not republican. [6]
Neither mental bias nor interest gained by any searching examination of the science to which I wished to devote myself, turned the scale. [10]
We cannot answer; nor can we answer in regard to the ascending organic scale. [1]
It was of no more weight than chaff, and its whole mass was like a heap of straw, which flew up as soon as Polykarp laid his love--a hundredweight of pure gold, in the other scale. [10]
Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours. [1]
Didn't one of my teachers split a Gunter's scale into three pieces over the palm of my hand? [6]
His requirements raised mountain after mountain in my path, but the thought of being compelled to scale these heights not only did not repel me, but seemed extremely attractive. [10]
The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. [5]
He needed no more aid to scale that place. [13]
There was nothing mean about him; even his rascalities, if you chose to call his transactions by that name, were on a grand scale. [4]
Everything, everything in me is by halves, for I, if the scale were to turn in my favor"--and here he struck his chest and his forehead, "I should be twice the man I am. [10]
He sees the little coxswain leaning forward at every stroke, as if her trivial weight were of such mighty consequence,--but a few ounces might turn the scale of victory. [6]
In one scale lies the heart of the dead man, in the other the image of the goddess of Truth, who introduces the soul into the hall of justice Toth writs the record. [10]
There are some large factories here, and manufacturing, of many sorts, is done on a great scale. [5]
The town is laid out on a generous scale, and it is to be regretted that we could not have seen it when it enjoyed the glory of a governor and court and ministers of state, and all the paraphernalia of a royal parliament. [4]
The walls around it were so gigantic, and everything about it was on so mighty a scale that it was belittled, by contrast, to what I have likened it to--a cozy and carpeted parlor. [5]
But never mind, it was sufficient unto itself, the grand occasion had moved on an ascending scale from the start, and was a noble and memorable success. [5]
The same thing is seen on a larger scale in a whole nation, like the Japanese, who have been trained into what seems an art instinct. [4]
But anyway, he is obliged to do a duke's part; he puts his hand in his pocket and does his benevolences on as big a scale as he can stand, and that benefits the community. [5]
Almost always there is a preparation made by Nature for unearthing a soul, just as on the smaller scale there is for the removal of a milktooth. [6]
To Mrs. Campbell Irving expressed his regret that her husband did not attempt something on a grand scale. [4]
The murder of infants has prevailed on the largest scale throughout the world (32. [1]
Maybe we're higher in the scale of human beings--in intelligence. [13]
Lives perhaps were in the balance, but she was a woman, and who could tell what slight influences might turn the scale! [11]
This floral gift imitated, on an immense scale, the little bouquet which the famous young general had taken from her father's hand before the gate of the garden of Epicurus to present to her as his first gift. [10]
It seemed as if the game "Holland against Spain" was to be continued in earnest, and on a grand scale. [10]
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]
He had a hobby almost amounting to an obsession, not uncommon amongst Americans who have slipped downward in the social scale. [9]
Besides, Big Tom himself weighed in the scale more than Mount Mitchell, and not to see him was to miss one of the most characteristic productions of the country, the typical backwoodsman, hunter, guide. [4]
It seemed to him that if he could once do something that was thoroughly distasteful to himself, he might make a beginning in the right direction; but when he tried this on a small scale, it failed, and it seemed stupid. [8]
My attitude forced him back into business, although we had enough to live on very comfortably, and then the scale of life began to increase, luxuries formerly unthought of seemed to become necessities. [9]
The Dutch captain here put his foot into the conversation, as his ancestors used to put theirs into the scale, when they were buying furs of the Indians by weight,--so much for the weight of a hand, so much for the weight of a foot. [6]
One of us held the iron drill in its place and another would strike with an eight-pound sledge--it was like driving nails on a large scale. [5]
Dion, the former head of the society, had been welcomed like a beloved brother risen from the dead, and he had the gratification, after so long a time, of turning the scale as speaker in a debate. [10]
Even small dominions have, as you doubtless know by what you have seen of the matter on a small scale in the Wart. [5]
Some of them have a scale of your whole nervous system, and can play all the gamut of your sensibilities in semitones, --touching the naked nerve-pulps as a pianist strikes the keys of his instrument. [6]
And since politics has become inextricably involved in financial speculations (as it has in real war), the excitement and danger of business on a large scale increase. [4]
Much as I had heard of the fertile regions of Pennsylvania, the vast scale and the uniform luxuriance of this region astonished me. [6]
I have a great desire to scale them. [4]
There is a great deal of sympathy afloat in the world, but it is especially shown downward in the social scale. [4]
Dryfoos tried to grasp the idea of commercialism as the colonel seemed to hold it; he conceived of it as something like the dry-goods business on a vast scale, and he knew he had never been in that. [8]
He placed goodness--the Good--at the top of the great scale of Ideas which he constructed. [10]
It takes a good deal of tact to handle such a little assembly as ours, which is a republic on a small scale, for all that they give me the title of Dictator, and Number Five is a great help in every social emergency. [6]
Ah the poor Fishwife, it is stuck fast in the Mire; it has dropped its Basket of Fishes; and its Hands have been cut by the Scales as it seized some of the falling Creatures; and one Scale has even got into its Eye. [5]
I can take Fischer's plates, and lecturing on that scale fill up my whole course and not finish the nerves alone. [3]
Anything over twenty feet of clear girth, five feet above the ground, and with a spread of branches a hundred feet across, may claim that title, according to my scale. [6]

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