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Examples

• Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is of no use trying him with anything less than a full-sized bread or proposing to him any joint in cut unless it is in the very best cut. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Both stood on one side, the tall junior behind the under-sized senior, looking forth carefully, so that they might not be visible from without. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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.
• The overcoat extended nearly to his feet, and was so large that it gave him the appearance of being an average-sized man. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was a middle-sized, strongly built man--square jaw, thick neck, moustache, a mask over his eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a good-sized room, but now a cell would have been lovelier. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His person was pretty good; strait, stout, and middle-sized, with a good, fair, Irish allowance of leg. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This Apollo, for instance, he said, as they paused before a life-sized nude figure holding a lyre, was found at Delos and brought to me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At the same instant I saw that the thing that had struck us was the trailing anchor of a rather fair-sized air vessel; possibly a ten man cruiser. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In he walked, a middle-sized, dark-haired, dark-eyed, black-bearded man, with a touch of the Sheeny about his nose. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his tattered coat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• For the original it is best to use smooth, well-sized writing paper, allowing the ink to dry without using a blotter. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing back a little from the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Average physical properties shown in United States Standard test bar taken from full-sized prolongation of end of forging: Elastic limit, 53,560 pounds per square inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the lard packing room there is much automatic machinery, with which the various sized packages of lard are weighed out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is then sized, dried and tallowed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We came into Lausanne and went into a medium-sized hotel to stay. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The lake-dwellers, on the other hand, had, in addition to the dog, which was of a medium-sized breed, oxen, goats, and sheep. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The stage faced the mountain, and had an altar beautifully sculptured in front of it, and life-sized statues of Dionysius and Ph?bus on either side. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There's a dreadful Secondly, and a dreadful Thirdly to come--as I used to say to myself in sermon-time when I was a very small-sized sinner at church. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I found myself in a good-sized apartment, scrupulously clean, though bare, compared with those I had hitherto seen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At length they halted within a fair-sized chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Fill a medium-sized bottle with water, cover it with a glass plate, invert the bottle in the trough, and then remove the glass plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A quart of the preparation used in this manner will clean the walls of a good-sized room. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• And as to smaller-sized rooms than I had been used to, I really could not give it a thought. Jane Austen. Emma.

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