Gradations

Examples

• If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The plate shows all gradations of intensity--the tidy is dark, the black tie is light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And all these gradations can be actually traced. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• That is to say, that the color changes imperceptibly in subtle gradations of light and shade. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many subsequent improvements have been made, one type of which employs a succession of rolls which act in pairs on the grain one after the other and reduce it by successive gradations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The _nothing_ of conversation has its gradations, I hope, as well as the _never_. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Gradations of structure, with each stage beneficial to a changing species, will be favoured only under certain peculiar conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He was so old and his face was very wrinkled, so that a smile used so many lines that all gradations were lost. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The gradations from leaf-climbers to tendril bearers are wonderfully close, and certain plants may be differently placed in either class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So that I think there is little in the advice of making those changes by easy gradations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We should be extremely cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by transitional gradations of some kind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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