Comparatively

Examples

• The understanding of the place of theory in life is a comparatively new one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I will tell her all that is necessary to what may comparatively be called, your justification. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. Plato. The Republic.
• Comparatively speaking, such modes of influence may be regarded as personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lieutenant D'Arnot was in the lead and moving at a quick pace, for the trail was comparatively open. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If a soft iron nail (Fig. 212) or its equivalent is slipped within the coil, the lifting and attractive power of the coil is increased, and comparatively heavy weights can be lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But I had a hold over Skipp and Smalley which made my course in this matter a comparatively easy one. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the age of Pericles scarcely the first stone of our comparatively tremendous cairn of things recorded and proved had been put in place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How comparatively easy the task of amusing these people if he were present! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For instance, consider how few and comparatively awkward were the mechanical means before this century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fledgeby's mother's family had been very much offended with her for being poor, and broke with her for becoming comparatively rich. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• By this national devotion to a single trade and its sub-division of labour, the successful production of complicated watches became great and their prices comparatively low. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The application of steam to the direct propulsion of carriages was a comparatively slow process. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Some time before I had reduced our speed, for we had left the Valley Dor many miles astern, and I felt comparatively safe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• With it you and Esmeralda will be comparatively safe in this cabin while I am searching for your father and Mr. Philander. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The sleepers were laid upon the natural grade, and there was comparatively no effort made to ballast the road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Photo-engravings are a comparatively modern product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It then consisted of a comparatively thin shell filled with bullets, having a fuse lit by the firing of the gun, and adapted to explode the shell in front of the object fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the same manner, steam engine boilers might be constructed with a small portion comparatively weaker, so that if it gave way there would not be much damage done. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Thousands of comparatively pacific little village republics and chieftainships were spread over the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For that length of time at least they will be comparatively safe, he said, and we will at least know where to look for them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• An Indian puts his ear to the ground in order to detect distant footsteps, because sounds too faint to be heard through the air are comparatively clear when transmitted through the earth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The fact that the farms and ranches in this country, and especially in the west, have been of comparatively large area, has had a tendency to make American farm life particularly lonely. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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