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Sentences starting with smaller

Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
Smaller feathers when thus denuded appear like bristles, as on the breast of the turkey-cock. [1]

Sentences ending with smaller

He took a turn up and down the room, stopped suddenly, and stared at her with eyes that had grown smaller. [9]
His face seemed to have shriveled or melted; his features had grown smaller. [2]
There they stood for a while in silence, watching the broad stern of the Barbara growing smaller. [9]

Sentences containing smaller two or more times

The circle of the sun get smaller and smaller, till he only tramp along the high edge of the north-west. [11]
But as he takes off layer after layer, the truth seems to grow smaller and smaller, and some of its outlines begin to look like something we have seen before. [6]
I can still see the trees and bushes growing smaller and smaller as I followed them up its huge slant with my eye, till they became a feathery fringe on the distant summit. [5]
He calls the rich men together, the highest bidder gets the speculation, pays the Pacha on the spot, and then sells out to smaller fry, who sell in turn to a piratical horde of still smaller fry. [5]
The prefect and Pontius had intended a quite different room to serve for smaller assemblies, and had fitted it up suitably for the purpose, but the Empress had preferred the great hall to the smaller room. [10]
Historical science in its endeavor to draw nearer to truth continually takes smaller and smaller units for examination. [2]
By adopting smaller and smaller elements of motion we only approach a solution of the problem, but never reach it. [2]

More example sentences with the word smaller in them

There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
Still, she for whom he waited was surely smaller than the woman, who now came near to him. [10]
The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
If its increase was small its temptations were smaller, and that is no little recommendation in this world of temptations. [4]
At which there was rejoicing at Lebanon, followed by dismay and indignation at Manitou, for one of the smaller merged railways had its offices there, and it was now removed to Lebanon; while several of the staff, having proved cantankerous, were promptly retired. [11]
Adjoining the studio was a smaller apartment, separated from the former room by a corridor, that could be closed, and by a heavy curtain. [10]
Both frequently glanced up at the lighted bow-window and the smaller one on the second story, behind which Eva lay half asleep. [10]
Well, I have tried before perhaps fifty audiences, some larger and some smaller than this, to find one such Democrat, and never yet have I found one who said I did not place him right in that. [7]
But to Nature's tricks with boughs and roots and smaller vegetable growths there is no end. [6]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
Presently he turned towards the Cure, and shrank so that he looked smaller still. [11]
The man on top, looking at the view, is apparently too large, but I found he could not be made smaller, conveniently. [5]
I therefore concluded to tell you the plain truth, being satisfied the matter would thus appear much smaller than it would if seen by mere glimpses. [7]
This is not to say that the smaller work was immature. [11]
The Ten decided to remain and watch a game which was pronounced little short of phenomenal, and my client gave orders for the smaller brake and requested the Celebrity to drive. [9]
If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
Yet his offer to have it made smaller was not accepted, because had it been lower the devout supplicants who stood there to pray could not have raised their eyes to it. [10]
I suggest it to be so framed as for us to accept a smaller force--even a company--if we cannot get a regiment or more. [7]
I remember when they used to stay at one of the smaller hotels. [4]
Philip noticed, as they fronted each other for an instant and the stranger raised his hat, that his hands and feet were smaller than usually accompany such a large frame. [4]
On one of these occasions, "suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore. [5]
Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined. [2]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
Do you know, the world seems much smaller here than at home. [4]
In fact, while the temporo-occipital is one of the most constant of sulci in the Catarrhine, or Old World, apes, it is never very strongly developed in the New World apes; it is absent in the smaller Platyrrhini; rudimentary in Pithecia (73. [1]
Honora sat in the straight-backed seat of the smaller train with parted lips and beating heart, gazing now and again at the pearly mists rising from the little river valley they were climbing. [9]
West of Cincinnati the smallest coin in use was the silver five-cent piece and no smaller quantity of an article could be bought than "five cents' worth. [5]
Never mind about the smaller waves, let us come to the largest one of all, the wave that swept us small fry quite off our feet and almost drowned us with joy. [5]
The shopkeepers of the smaller sort, in Geneva, are as troublesome and persistent as are the salesmen of that monster hive in Paris, the Grands Magasins du Louvre--an establishment where ill-mannered pestering, pursuing, and insistence have been reduced to a science. [5]
Besides, some of the smaller cities are charming. [6]
Take pains over the smaller cases, and the larger cases will come of themselves, eh? [9]
You have just the same situation in Elkington, on a smaller scale. [9]
The light illuminated the red and white bars of the ensign, upheld by the standard bearer of the regiment, the smaller flags flaunted by the strikers--each side clinging hardily to the emblem of human liberty. [9]
At that hour the merchantmen had all scuttled to safety behind the head, and from the deck a great yellow King's frigate could be plainly seen standing south to meet us, followed by her smaller consort. [9]
I have seen the hull of a steamboat that was smaller than one of those stones. [5]
Yet she dreaded the great temptation of centring all her thoughts upon this one time, and losing her interest in the smaller hopes and employments of the remaining hours. [14]
Every portion of the building blazed with gold and vivid coloring; the painter's hand had added life to the marble groups in high relief that filled the pediments and the smaller figures in the long row of metopes. [10]
In smaller towns the average is $400 to $500. [5]
Quetelet has shewn that woman is born smaller than man; see Dr. Duncan, 'Fecundity, Fertility, and Sterility,' 1871, p. [1]
It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; but it is truer still that it has perils, events which try the soul as it is never tried in the smaller life--unless, indeed, the soul be that of the Epicurean. [11]
It is said that the first thing an Islander learns is how to swim; learning to walk being a matter of smaller consequence, comes afterward. [5]
I should add that on the secondary wing-feather farthest from the body all the ocelli are smaller and less perfect than on the other feathers, and have the upper part of the ring deficient, as in the case just mentioned. [1]
Which reminds me that last week I sent down and got Susie a vast pair of shoes of a most villainous pattern, for I discovered that her feet were being twisted and cramped out of shape by a smaller and prettier article. [5]
Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit. [2]
It is said that a smaller and ruder horse stood here from time immemorial, and was made to commemorate a victory of Alfred over the Danes. [6]
This wound the surgeon bound carefully, and likewise two smaller ones. [9]
The smaller man stands swinging his arms for warmth; the smack of the leather in the clear air like the report of a gun. [11]
In an outer space swung Mr. Parr; then came the scarcely less rarefied atmosphere of the Constables and Atterburys, Fergusons, Plimptons, Langmaids, Prestons, Larrabbees, Greys, and Gores, and then a smaller sphere which claims but a passing mention. [9]
Now, when he sought for subjects, beside the smaller and more simple ones appeared mighty and manifold ones, often of superhuman grandeur. [10]
There are few smaller, meaner men in this region than Hugh Thompson. [5]
Her head seemed smaller, her features had become more delicate and, in spite of the straw hat which protected her from the dazzling sunshine, he perceived that her severe illness had cost her her magnificent golden hair. [10]
That was unaccountably smaller, and glowed with a sea-coal fire. [9]
Mr. Holt was smaller than his wife, neat in dress and unobtrusive in appearance. [9]
Star Island is smaller than Appledore and more barren, but it has the big hotel (and a different class of guests from those on Appledore), and several monuments of romantic interest. [4]
He appeared much smaller off the boards than on, and his actions and speech were quick and nervous. [9]
Slender dragon-flies and smaller busy insects flitted buzzing from flower to flower, sucking honey from the brimming calyxes and bearing to others the seeds needed to form fruit. [10]
She was so small (though she was larger than the majority of the inter-island coasters) that when I stood on her deck I felt but little smaller than the Colossus of Rhodes must have felt when he had a man-of-war under him. [5]
There is a shell-fish which builds all manner of smaller shells into the walls of its own. [6]
But, in fact, she selected a reclining posture particularly for the sake of showing her feet; not a woman in Egypt or Greece had a smaller or more finely formed foot than she. [10]
In the garden she had been struck by the superiority of a nature which set at naught what had been, to some smaller spirits, a difficult situation. [9]
And thus we see that as each flea "has smaller fleas that on him prey," even the critic himself cannot escape the common lot of being bitten. [6]
He owned the Scimitar and several smaller boats. [9]
They were perfectly round white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. [5]
The high, arched room was only dimly lighted by a hanging-lamp, but when Frau Schimmel heard his steps she shrank together till, as she fancied, she must have become smaller and less easily discoverable. [10]
Nevertheless, as he rode on, the water-wagtail's little figure dwelt in his mind; not alone, however, for that of Paula immediately rose by her side; and the smaller Katharina's seemed, the more ample and noble did the other appear. [10]
Then the earth rocked, huge economic structures tottered and fell, and much dust arose to obscure the vision of smaller creatures, who were bewildered and terrified. [9]
These teeth are rather smaller than the other molars, as is likewise the case with the corresponding teeth in the chimpanzee and orang; and they have only two separate fangs. [1]
Unfortunately this can rarely be done: for the larger genera generally include closely- allied forms, which can be distinguished only with much difficulty, whilst the smaller genera within the same family include forms that are perfectly distinct; yet all must be ranked equally as species. [1]
Mr. Barbour, the president of our Railroad, was present, and nodded to me kindly; also a president of a smaller road. [9]
The woods contain partridge, or ruffed grouse, and other game in smaller quantities. [9]
Her heart shrunk painfully within her, and she would have wished to grow smaller, and, instead of shining in splendor, to have found herself wrapped in a beggar's robe. [10]
An archway led out of the sitting-room into a smaller room, once the boudoir of a marquise, now Honora's library. [9]
You have seen our blue sea and our sky, young sir, and I yearn for them, but even more for other, smaller things. [10]
The way lay open for the Ariadne to bear down upon the French ship, engaged with the admiral's smaller ship, and help to end the struggle successfully for the British cause. [11]
Not that for one moment I would have exchanged it for the smaller house we had left. [9]
Now the carpet on the stage was drawn tighter by lackeys in magnificent liveries, and the final touches were given to its decorations; now priests entered the smaller building at the left of the courtyard. [10]
Animals inhabiting deserts offer the most striking cases, for the bare surface affords no concealment, and nearly all the smaller quadrupeds, reptiles, and birds depend for safety on their colours. [1]
Toward the center of this circle the sage-brush grew smaller and farther apart He was about to sheer off to the right, where thickets and jumbles of fallen rock would afford him cover, when he ran right upon a broad cattle trail. [13]
Within two weeks of the time that Phips in his Bridgwater Merchant, manned by a full crew, twenty fighting men, and twelve guns, with Gering in command of the Swallow, a smaller ship, got away to the south, Iberville also sailed in the same direction. [11]
The great Temple of the Sun, the Temple of Jupiter, and several smaller temples, are clustered together in the midst of one of these miserable Syrian villages, and look strangely enough in such plebeian company. [5]
The huge dome of the Serapeum on the Rhakotis, covered with lamps, towered above the flat roofs of the city like the starry firmament of a smaller world which had descended to earth. [10]
By the side of the river towards the north, rose the hanging-gardens, and the smaller palace lay toward the east on the other bank of the Euphrates, connected with the larger one by the wondrous erection, a firm bridge of stone. [10]
By the wall of China-Town a smaller group of people were gathered round a man in a frieze coat who held a paper in his hand. [2]
Two other galleys, not much inferior in size, were behind, and probably fifty smaller vessels were moving about the mouth of the Nile and the whole dreary tongue of land. [10]
If I did not know how strong the enemy is, we might try to overthrow him with smaller means. [10]
It is merely necessary to select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation--as criticism has every right to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected. [2]
Having small expectations myself, and having wedded Polly when they were smaller, I have come to feel the full force, the crushing weight, of her lightest remark about "My Uncle in India. [4]
The Emperor of Morocco is a soulless despot, and the great officers under him are despots on a smaller scale. [5]
It is to me a far smaller pleasure to be surprised by something new and unexpected than to make myself more closely acquainted with something I know already sufficiently to deem it worthy to be known better. [10]
The smaller discoveries made in the colony of New South Wales three months before had already started emigrants toward Australia; they had been coming as a stream, but they came as a flood, now. [5]
If the good Lord had but made you smaller, now," and he sighed, "how well this skyblue frock had set you off. [9]
Crime would be less also; for while there would, doubtless, be some old sinners, the criminal class, which is very largely under thirty, would be much smaller than it is now. [4]
Pollux at once led the favorite into a side room of the little house, with a northern aspect; here on a table lay the wax and the smaller implements which belonged to himself and which he had brought home last evening. [10]
Those who have known pain and affliction enjoy ease and pleasure with double satisfaction; sufferers learn to be grateful for even the smaller joys of life. [10]
The Temple of Jupiter is a smaller ruin than the one I have been speaking of, and yet is immense. [5]
Windpipe, food-pipe, carotid, jugular, half a dozen smaller, but still formidable vessels, a great braid of nerves, each as big as a lamp-wick, spinal cord,--ought to kill at once, if at all. [6]
So precipitous are its sides of rock, that there are only two fit boat-landings, the marina on the north side, and a smaller place opposite. [4]
You can try it, and go away if you don't like it a good deal easier than you could from a smaller place. [8]
Futty Khan's number is smaller than Ramzam's, but he is placed at the head because his average is the best in Oude-Thug history per year of service. [5]

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