Proportions

Examples

• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The proportions between the bank price, the mint price, and the market price of gold bullion, are nearly the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His features were very regular and, like the proportions of his graceful limbs and body, beautiful in the extreme. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Methought the apartment only was changed, being of different proportions and dimensions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Thus, there has been initiated the development of a new and important industry whose possible ultimate proportions are beyond the range of present calculation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is not practicable to give a full illustration of the state of the art in typewriters, as it has grown to an industry of large proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In modern times ring spinning has attained considerable proportions, especially in cotton manufactures. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The produce of the latter may, at different times, bear very different proportions to that value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The porous jar is then filled to the same height as the copper solution in the jar with diluted sulphuric acid, in the proportions of one of acid to twenty of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It takes the dimensions and proportions of figures justly; but roughly, and with some liberty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• That they were of goodly proportions I guessed from the fact that the eyes were on a level with my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Gunpowder consists of about 75 parts of saltpetre (nitrate of potash), 15 of charcoal, and 10 of sulphur, the proportions varying somewhat with the use to which it is to be applied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In fact, Boyle had sustained the hypothesis that supposes the pressures and expansions to be in reciprocal proportions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If it were attempted to offer here a detailed explanation of the varied and numerous operations of the quadruplex, this article would assume the proportions of a treatise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Made of larger proportions, this brush has been used for fresco painting, and for painting large objects, such as buildings, which it admits of doing with great rapidity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As to the proportions, 1 in 20 was the strongest he used, and 1 in 60 the weakest; for preserving meat 1 in 50 answered perfectly well--1?lb. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The first impression received as one enters on the main floor of the library and looks around is that of noble proportions and symmetry as a whole. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the course of the next two or three centuries the gladiatorial shows of Rome grew to immense proportions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An impression of the metal was obtained in fusible metal, which is an alloy composed of tin, lead, and bismuth, melted together in the proportions of two of the latter to one each of the former. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By compounding various colors in different proportions, new colors can be formed to give freshness and variety. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These, however, showed only the superiority of certain PROPORTIONS of the materials. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Formed in the best proportions of her sex, Rowena was tall in stature, yet not so much so as to attract observation on account of superior height. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The Confederate generals led their men in the repeated charges, and the loss among them was of unusual proportions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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