Proportioned

Examples

• A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As we advanced we found a well-proportioned tunnel cut from the solid cliff. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This patent has at first an authority, proportioned to the present and immediate authority of reason, from which it is derived. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His daily subsistence would be proportioned to his daily necessities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He who hath proportioned and given proper quantities to all things, was not unmindful of this. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The produce of every part of the country must be proportioned to the consumption of the neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His well-proportioned figure was not to be mistaken, for I doubt whether there was another in that assemblage his equal. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But what a very good-proportioned yard it is! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These organs are so proportioned in length to each other that half the stamens in two of the forms stand on a level with the stigma of the third form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Taxes which are proportioned, not in the Rent, but to the Produce of Land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a large, well proportioned room, handsomely fitted up. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Was Yeobright's mind well-proportioned? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Every object is attended with some emotion proportioned to it; a great object with a great emotion, a small object with a small emotion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His imagination runs away with its object, and excites a passion proportioned to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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