Yet in spite of this comparative culture the Battas have long been notorious for the most revolting forms of cannibalism.
The comparative inactivity of Bayezid in the direction of Europe was partly due to preoccupation elsewhere.
He took the blow with composure, and sank easily into a comparative retirement.
This is the comparative development of stock breeding on large estates and on peasant farms, in the district of Voronezh: Dessiatines To 1 head of big cattle.
The method of treatment will be historical, comparative and statistical; and it will be the aim of the writers to present the latest results of institutional development and of scientific thought in Europe and America.
In this table, land and stock, the principal instruments of production in Russian agriculture, give the comparative standard of the peasant’s life.
The series will consist of the following nine works: =Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics.
Thus we can avail ourselves of the opportunity for comparative study.
Comparative ease of circumstances had restored to the realist his ordinary indoor garment--a morning coat of the cloth called diagonal, rather large for him, but in better preservation than the other articles of his attire.
No doubt the visitors wondered at his comparative shabbiness, and asked themselves how he ventured to make a call without the regulation chimney-pot hat.
The following table gives the comparative figures of the League and the Association in their Championship contests in 1888: Clubs |Vic.
We mean, of course, comparative quiet, as much as is possible amid the din and endless rattle of a train speeding at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Comparative Size of the Sun as seen from the Planets Named 17 5.
This consideration of the comparative lightness of the Sun (though in his day the Sun was thought to be lighter than it is now supposed to be) led Sir J.
Comparative size of the Sun as seen from the Planets named.
Suppose it could be made palatable and eaten by man, littlecomparative saving would be effected.
Memling: **Portrait of an unknown man, which may be contrasted for its comparative softness of execution with the harder work of his master beside it.
The De Crayers, close by, contrast in the comparative crudity of their colour with the splendid harmonies of the master.
The two towns which earliest rose to greatness in the Belgian area were thus =Bruges= and =Ghent=; they possessed in the highest degree the combined advantages of easy access to the sea and comparative inland security.
The order in which the stories in this volume are printed is not intended as an indication of their comparative excellence; the arrangement is alphabetical by authors.
One great peculiarity in Newera Ellia is the comparative freedom from poisonous vermin.
The remains of these cities sufficiently attest the former amount of population and the comparative civilization which existed at that remote era among the progenitors of the present degraded race of barbarians.
I toiled on, however, and once in the settlement, walked with comparative ease.
I was struck with thecomparative elegance pervading so primitive an establishment.
To see or hear that the leader is dead, foretells severe strains, and trials will eventually end in comparative good.
For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.
To employ one, signifies comparative comfort will be possible for your obtaining.
To dream of a virgin, denotes that you will have comparative luck in your speculations.
Colburne was a better conversationalist than Carter, except in the way of small talk with comparative strangers, wherein the latter's confidence in himself, strengthened by habits of authority, gave him an easy freedom.
Proud of his own biceps, the young man had to acknowledge its comparative inferiority in volume and texture.
In her moral grammar there is no positive or comparative degree.
The comparative cheapness of the acquisition holds out the powerful temptation of more credit with less labor.
It is at least as creditable to discuss the comparative merits of Sophocles and Shakspeare, as the rival ingredients of a soup or a sauce.
Thus the bounty being made to flow in partial channels, the woman's relations and favorites almost entirely engrossing it, it did little comparative good.
Barlow, "that a strong reason why the younger part of a clergyman's life should be in a good measure devoted to learning is, that he may afterward discover its comparative vanity.
Barlow, "I will not presume to determine between the exact comparative proportions of two ingredients, both of which are so indispensable in the composition of a Christian.
We felt that our share in warfare was as nothing to the blaze of fury on the battle-fronts, our sea-life was comparative comfort in contrast to the grisly horrors of the trenches.
The sheer relief of passing over the hundred-fathom line to the comparative safety of the deeps of ocean is never experienced by the cross-channel captain.
Sir Walter Raleigh, in a treatise on thecomparative commerce of England and Holland, endeavoured to draw the attention of James I.
All other events, however, sank into comparative insignificance before one which now occurred.
So soon as Nature had time to do her part and to ripen her crops, there would be once more comparative plenty, and there was an animating prospect of a secure permanence of peace and order.
Comparative Hierology; the methodical application of principles insisted on by all the deists, and formulated in the interests of deism by Lessing, but latterly freed of his implications.
With Hume and Francklin, he insisted that facts incredible in themselves could not be established by any amount or kind of testimony; and he suggested no measure of comparative credibility as between the two orders of miracle.
By making them large, therefore, we enable a large current to pass, and consequently permit electrolysis to take place with great comparative rapidity.
From what I have seen of the tea on the plains, I am disposed to believe that the comparative want of soil, due to the great inclination of all the eminences, is an insuperable objection to its existence.
The intestines are in longitudinal folds of extremely small comparative diameter, and enormous length; in a large specimen it is twenty-three times the length of the body.
Altogether the vegetation is different from that of Oonnoo, in the comparative absence of Statice, Dianthoid, and Astragali.
The most marked peculiarity is the comparativeabsence of A.
The exterior is of the same construction as all Khasya houses, but the lawns and the comparativecleanliness of the front makes them look much better.
The most common evidence of this dependence of many persons' courage on habit is in the comparative timidity of brave men against novel dangers,--as of sailors on horseback, and mountaineers at sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comparative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
