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Sentences ending with size

The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
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]
I supposed he was at least an archbishop, from the retinue of priests who attended and served him, and also from his great size. [4]
I think I was a little surprised to find that the grand Sultan of Turkey was a man of only ordinary size. [5]
That night a warm heavy rain came on, and in the morning every stream and river was swollen to twice its size. [11]
There is the violet: all efforts of cultivation fail to make it as big as the peony, and it would be no more dear to the heart if it were quadrupled in size. [4]
Displayed on hooks upon the wall in all their terrors, were the cane and ruler; and near them, on a small shelf of its own, the dunce's cap, made of old newspapers and decorated with glaring wafers of the largest size. [12]
Of course, the tree must have some size. [4]
It was as tranquil as formerly, and apparently had neither grown nor diminished in size. [5]
About how do they run here as to size? [4]

Short sentences using size

Ain't size enough to it. [5]
The size of it. [5]

Sentences containing size two or more times

On one side of the house was a little stable, just the size for the pony, with a little room over it, just the size for Kit. [12]
When we do not know a person--and also when we do--we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business--there is no other way. [5]
I knew the cow, having often had her in my garden; knew her gait and the size of her feet, which struck me as a little large for the size of the body. [4]

More example sentences with the word size in them

When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head. [5]
If you're dealing with him, don't think him a fool because he chirrups, and don't size him up according to his looks. [11]
A Scientist out West has visited a bookseller--with intent to find fault with me--and has brought away the information that the price at which Mrs. Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. [5]
At night there were great stories of achievement told by the cavernous fireplace; great latitude was permitted in the estimation of the size of particular drifts, but never any agreement was reached as to the "depth on a level. [4]
The house itself was well-fitted by its unusually palatial size and antique splendor to be the residence of the emperor's viceroy, and the Mukaukas, to whom it all belonged, had in fact held the office for a long time. [10]
Manifestly the size was too small for me. [5]
From the scuffle-ground was the sign of something about the size of a man having been dragged to the edge of the thicket, where it joined the track of some small-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse, as shown by the road-tracks. [7]
He said he was hit by a stone from a catapult--a stone the size of a man's head. [5]
I knew it was bad, and persistent, but I was not aware of the full size of the matter. [5]
Instructions are not wanting as to the shape of the table and the size of the party; it is universally admitted that the number must be small. [4]
There was no use--he understood the whole size of the disaster. [5]
To have piled up a correspondence of that size in the time, and under the circumstances already noted, quality considered, may be counted a record in the history of travel letters. [5]
There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
The monuments are unpretending in size, but there are many fine designs, and many finely executed busts and statues and allegorical figures, in both marble and bronze. [4]
I remembered this tree well, as we measured the string which was to tell the size of its English rival. [6]
My father used to say that the world was only the size of four walls to a sick person. [11]
I was curious to know how the size of the trunk of this tree would compare with that of the trunks of some of our largest New England elms. [6]
I should like to know how much food it took at one time to make an impression on him; I should like to know what effect an idea of ordinary size had in his capacious head. [4]
He went on to describe the tract, its size and location. [9]
This edifice, which, though its exterior was almost wholly devoid of ornament, nevertheless presented a majestic aspect on account of its vast size, adjoined a splendid park, whose leafy groups of ancient trees merged into the forest of Soignies. [10]
Curiously enough, in this mental argument of justification, I left out all consideration of the size of the probable profits to Mr. Scherer and his friends. [9]
Nothing of all this had seemed noteworthy to Katharina but the quantity and size of the bags--full, no doubt, of gold--and the man, whom alone she cared to see. [10]
What funny newspapers they were, the size of a blanket! [9]
At the hotel they gave us rooms that were alarming, for size, and parlor to match. [5]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
Is it because there is a difference in size? [7]
The lilies are there by authority of the King--do you understand the size of that? [5]
The distance between them was very great, but the size of the animal caused him to be plainly seen. [5]
Three buildings in the village stood out insistently, more by the authority of their appearance and position than by their size. [11]
Let us double-column the twelve; then we shall see at a glance that each little reason is in turn answered by a retorting reason of a size to overshadow it and make it insignificant: 1. [5]
The Leith millionaire, the summer resident, was a new factor in politics, and the rumours of the size of his fortune had reached a high-water mark in the Pelican Hotel that evening. [9]
And think of the size of them, the majesty of them, the weird and outlandish character of the most of them! [5]
Now as to the size of the weather in New England--lengthways, I mean. [5]
Now as to the size of the weather in New England lengthways, I mean. [5]
They are twice the size of ordinary mortals. [10]
The gong was the size of a wash-bowl, and was placed above the head of our bed. [5]
An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me. [5]
They were about the same size, but science and civilization won the day. [4]
The substitute was the same size and shape, and I was not suspicious. [11]
The leaders of the Netherland nobility were figures very unlike in stature and size to Philip; but he could vie in haughty majesty with any of them. [10]
The warrior and the lawgiver, the blood-thirsty tyrant and the philanthropist are only distinguished from each other by a difference in size, by which the Egyptian sculptor expresses the idea of power and strength. [10]
Yet some of the lava blocks quarried out, brought over rough, broken ground, and built into this wall, six or seven feet from the ground, are of prodigious size and would weigh tons. [5]
Cambyses laughed at the large size of the target, weighted the bow with his right hand, challenged his subjects to try their fortune first, and handed the bow to the aged Hystaspes, as the highest in rank among the Achaemenidae. [10]
As compared with the landed estate of the British Empire, the landed estate dominated by any other Power except one --Russia--is not very impressive for size. [5]
The strength of the justification of the man who stands at the head of the movement grows with the increased size of the group. [2]
In this case, the jaws, together with the teeth, would become reduced in size, as we may feel almost sure from innumerable analogous cases. [1]
The vastness of the house, the width of the staircase, and the size of the second-story hall impressed our heroine. [9]
The size of the hole seemed to be determined by the reach of the roots of the tree. [4]
These horns, in the great family of the Lamellicorns, resemble those of various quadrupeds, such as stags, rhinoceroses, etc., and are wonderful both from their size and diversified shapes. [1]
In many species the chelae are of unequal size on the opposite side of the body, the right-hand one being, as I am informed by Mr. Bate, generally, though not invariably, the largest. [1]
It lies in the center of this platter, in a bordering bed of grease-soaked potatoes; it is the size, shape, and thickness of a man's hand with the thumb and fingers cut off. [5]
I soon saw that he was reducing my size. [5]
Very well; eyes that cannot see a house-fly that is a hundred yards away cannot see an ordinary nailhead at that distance, for the size of the two objects is the same. [5]
It was more than forty miles in circumference, and its walls enclosed buildings surpassing in size and grandeur even the Pyramids and the temples of Thebes. [10]
Part of a tail-covert of Polyplectron malaccense, with the two ocelli, partially confluent, of natural size. [1]
Part of a tail-covert of Polyplectron chinquis, with the two ocelli of natural size. [1]
The grave is surrounded by a low wall of loose stones, to which each visitor adds one, and in the course of ages the cairn may grow to a good size. [4]
Whereupon he became suddenly embarrassed, and pulled out a handkerchief the size of a table napkin. [9]
They are his subjects, and he needs money, and he puts a price on their heads--that's about the size of it. [11]
But mere bodily strength and size would do little for victory, unless associated with courage, perseverance, and determined energy. [1]
In the background stood a clay model of an Apollo of admirable workmanship; above, and near this, the wall was hung with lutes and lyres of various size and form. [10]
Nothing shows the splendor and wisdom of her military genius like her instant comprehension of the size of the change which has come about, and her instant perception of the right and only right way to take advantage of it. [5]
As I stand, sorting over the fruit, trying to please myself with size, color, and texture, a little crowd has gathered round; and I see, by a glance, that all the occupations in that neighborhood, including loafing, are temporarily suspended to witness the trade. [4]
She was built some thing on the plan of the mountains, and her ambition to explore was equal to her size. [4]
Bret Harte has sold his novel (same size as mine, I should say) to Scribner's Monthly for $6,500 (publication to begin in September, I think,) and he gets a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent from Bliss in book form afterwards. [5]
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]
It was a small ship, which, as the dark masses of clouds became bordered with golden edges, grew more distinct and appeared to be a Cilician pirate of the smallest size. [10]
It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob. [5]
In regard to size, M. Carbonnier (11. [1]
He's 'bout you size, but he ain' no mo' laik you den a Jack rabbit's laik an' owl. [9]
Its height and size would represent two of the Washington capitol set one on top of the other--if the capitol were wider; or two blocks or two blocks and a half of ordinary buildings set one on top of the other. [5]
Judging by the size of the talk which the Southern Cross had made, I supposed it would need a sky all to itself. [5]
From the small size of insects, we are apt to undervalue their appearance. [1]
It was the size of a sleigh, it had six seats and was so low that it seemed to rest on the ground. [5]
Bugs of every size and aspect met my eyes wherever they turned. [6]
I give our silent but most expressive entertainer half a franc, never more; and he always seems surprised at the size of the largesse. [4]
With this he shoves wooden disks the size of a saucer--he gives the disk a vigorous shove and sends it fifteen or twenty feet along the deck and lands it in one of the squares if he can. [5]
I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. [5]
The Judge was shaven, save for a shaggy fringe of gray beard around his chin, and the size of his nose was apparent even in the full face. [9]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. [5]
I have already seen the Empire of King Solomon diminish to the size of the State of Pennsylvania; I suppose I can bear the reduction of the seas and the river. [5]
And yet these sculptured blocks are trifles in size compared with the rough-hewn blocks that form the wide verandah or platform which surrounds the Great Temple. [5]
He tried the same experiment, in the open air, with a swallow and T. fimbria; but the large size of this moth probably interfered with its capture. [1]
Again the purple sage, magnified in color and size and wave, for long moments irritated her with its monotony. [13]
And even the ruins of this giant city, writes Lavard, are such as to allow a very fair conclusion of its enormous size. [10]
It's royal, man, royal--do you understand the size of that? [5]
He had a round body the size of a pea. [5]
They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, for defence against new enemies; or they must be reduced in size, so as to escape detection and danger. [1]
Blumenbach has also remarked on the large size of the nasal cavities in the skulls of the American aborigines, and connects this fact with their remarkably acute power of smell. [1]
An abundance of red and white roses stuck out from the front folds of his ample toga, and were held in their place by gold brooches, sparkling with precious stones of large size. [10]
The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid bouquets, of the general size and weight of prize cabbages, from the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensible. [5]
If one would realize how colossal it is, and of what dignity and majesty, let him contrast it with the purposes and objects of the Crusades, the siege of York, the War of the Roses, and other historic comedies of that sort and size. [5]
When a mere reader or lecturer has appeared 3 or 4 times in a town of Hartford's size, he is a good deal more than likely to get a very unpleasant snub if he shoves himself forward about once or twice more. [5]
A seed of rancour had been sown in his mind which had grown to a great size and must presently burst into a dark flower of vengeance. [11]
There are no provisions for foundations, thickness of walls, size of timbers and columns, and if these houses had been deliberately erected to make a bonfire they couldn't have answered the purpose better. [9]
After we have produced it, we find that the biggest rose even is not the most precious; and lovely as woman is, we instinctively in our admiration put a limit to her size. [4]
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]
In the terminal portion the vertabrae, constituting the os coccyx, are quite rudimentary, being much reduced in size and number. [1]

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