Productions

Examples

• Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are, we may note, some very striking resemblances between early Japanese pottery and so forth and similar Peruvian productions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The productions of the General Electric Company alone average annual sales of nearly $75,000,000, but they do not comprise the total of the country's manufactures in these lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And half a grain of reality, like the smallest portion of some other scarce natural productions, will flavour an enormous quantity of diluent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In exchanging, indeed, the different productions of different sorts of labour for one another, some allowance is commonly made for both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One of their productions shows that king surrounded by his family. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He argues with much force on general grounds that species are not immutable productions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Under this point of view, the productions of Great Britain stand much higher in the scale than those of New Zealand. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Then appeared the harpsichord, a still nearer approach to the piano, having a hand or knee-worked pedal, and on which Mozart and Handel and Haydn brought out their grand productions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This does not occur, or only in a very slight degree, with our domesticated productions, which have long been exposed to fluctuating conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Its productions and features may be without example, as the ph?nomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My schooling first impelled her towards books; and, if music had been the food of sorrow, the productions of the wise became its medicine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is scarcely anything that we can suppose to be a religious or mystical symbol at all in his productions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This separation, as far as the more temperate productions are concerned, must have taken place long ages ago. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thus, also, it is that continental productions have everywhere become so largely naturalised on islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• No one supposes that our choicest productions have been produced by a single variation from the aboriginal stock. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The productions of such distant coal mines can never be brought into competition with one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We see the same process of extermination among our domesticated productions, through the selection of improved forms by man. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Hence, after long intervals of time, the productions of the world appear to have changed simultaneously. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But as if to repress such vainglorious thoughts, there stood in the transept of the building, surrounded by and contrasting with the handiworks of man, one of the simplest productions of Nature. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As has always been my practice, I have sought light on this head from our domestic productions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The study of domestic productions will rise immensely in value. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He still continues to ply his craft with unabated skill and oversees the work of the mechanics as his productions are wrought into concrete shape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But we learn from the study of our domestic productions that the disuse of parts leads to their reduced size; and that the result is inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Notwithstanding this general parallelism in the conditions of Old and New Worlds, how widely different are their living productions! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• According to our experience, abrupt and strongly marked variations occur in our domesticated productions, singly and at rather long intervals of time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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