In accordance with the degree of poetry in the fibre of the people, so, in a certain degree, has the belief in stellar influence been manifest.
In a few minutes unaccustomed silence prevailed, and then it was noticed that the frog was distended to a degree which must have caused it infinite satisfaction, while the canary had vanished.
Then round and about the disc similar stuff was plastered, so as to form an irregular splash, imitative of a bird's droppings to the-degree of perfect deception.
This is a trifle: yesterday Florian was ill and required some tea; his servant tried the degree of heat by plunging his dirty black finger to the bottom.
Entertaining in the highest degreefrom beginning to end, and full of adventure which is all the livelier for its close connection with history.
Still, he, too, had got used to the society of Julius, who was the only living thing that clung to him, and probably would have felt a degree of regret at his loss.
The days of his adversity were over, and he now enjoyed a moderate degree of prosperity.
The point is, Simmons," the leader said, "can you handle the stuff with a degree of safety after you have read the formula?
Perhaps that accounted in a degree for the other's bared nerves.
See here, Nora," the inspector grumbled, "I usually give the third degree myself in this place.
Neither was it in any degree a mediocre "best"; and even Sir Edwin was a little surprised to find himself with a companion who attracted nearly as many admiring glances as various lady friends who were recognised beauties.
No, not exactly; though really I fail to see any difference in degree between one actress and another.
Her daily sojourn in the City, among the bread-winners, had made her large-hearted and generously tolerant, without hurting in any degree her own innate womanliness and charm.
As to this matter, one learns more from men's lives than from their books, but nowadays care as to matters of hygiene has become in a valuable degree the common wisdom of a large part of my profession.
It is fastened by a ribbon to the chest and thrown over the right shoulder, but has nothing which can stop or prevent in the smallest degree its resonance.
He was almost entirely self-taught and, notwithstanding, reached a high degree as a virtuoso on the Violoncello.
Concerning Dotzauer's violoncello compositions, Philipp Roth's "Guide to Violoncello Literature" may be consulted with special reference to their degree of difficulty.
And as these Studies were written according to the capacities of the latter instrument it is evident they can only be made available in a limited degree for the Violoncello.
His chief study, which he carried to no small degreeof perfection, was that of the law.
In 1875 he had reached such a degree of proficiency that he was engaged in the autumn of the same year as first Cellist for the Liebig Orchestra.
For the Violoncello, besides seven Concertos, he wrote a tolerable list of Drawing-room Pieces, which have received a considerable degree of favour.
By diligently prosecuted studies, Kummer gradually reached such a high degree of artistic cultivation that when Dotzauer was pensioned, he was appointed in his place as first violoncellist of the Royal band.
He made rapid progress, and soon attracted the attention of the Dresden musical circle to so great a degree that at the end of the same year he was appointed to the Hofkapelle there.
They are only so far interesting in that by them is shown to what degree of technique cello playing was developed by this master.
Then Niblack drank, being next of rank to Ligoun, and after him one chief and another in degree and order.
Eight thousand blankets did he give to them, as I well know, for who but I kept the tally and apportioned according to degree and rank?
As soon as we come to examine the other creatures even in the most cursory fashion, there is only one group which in any close degree resembles the human species.
The home seems so necessary a part of human life that it is almost impossible to think of an animal having nothing that in the faintest degree could be called a home.
Man himself possesses to a marked degree this impulse to keep quiet in danger.
In the neighborhood of man's home, unless he has become sanitary to a degree which has only been attained in recent years, there is usually more or less garbage, kitchen offal of one sort or another.
Prisons, almshouses, and houses of shame owe their population in no small degree to this bitter curse.
The weakest point of the position lies in the fact that it probably presupposes a higher degree of capacity for appreciation on the part of lower animals than they possess.
There is nothing in the egg that in the remotestdegree resembles its parent.
Perhaps the up-building of large financial schemes presupposes a certain degree of imagination.
People who could speak with any degree of familiarity of Hyde Park, the Champs Elysees, the Pincio, had gained a certain dignity.
He was of the order of man one looks at twice, having looked at him once, though one does not in the least know why, unless one finally reaches some degree of intimacy.
Day by day it had increased and gathered power, and she realised with a certain sense of impatience that she had not in any degree understood it when she had seen and wondered at its effect on other women.
As further protection, her husband had frankly asked her to content herself with a degree of limited information.
He pleased his host no more than he had pleased him at their first encounter; he, in fact, repelled him strongly, by suggesting a degree of abnormality of mood which was smoothed over by an attempt at entire normality of manner.
It took place when the house was full of its most interestingly distinguished guests, and, though other balls might be given at other times, this one was marked by a degree of greater state.
Her father, her mother, her relatives, and friends were all in some degree exactly the kind of persons whose speech, habits, and opinions she must conscientiously avoid.
He had given a degree of natural sympathy, and this was an English chap's idea of a joke.
A certaindegree of unreasoning madness possesses them.
Crude, uneducated, and slangy, the junior salesman was not in any degree a fool.
The water intended for bathing purposes is sometimes placed in the centre of the patio, or court-yard, where, under the powerful influence of the sun, it is soon warmed to any reasonable degree of temperature.
Captain-General Tacon established some degree of safety for the inhabitants by introducing new laws, and by severely punishing certain social offences which his predecessors had rather overlooked, if they did not themselves set the example.
From lake Michigan they proceeded up the Fox river nearly to its source; thence to Ouisconsin; down it to the Mississippi, in which river they sailed as far as to about the thirty-third degree of north latitude.
When this was exhausted, a degree of suffering ensued, often attended with consequences fatal to individuals, and destructive to the objects of the expedition.
An obedience to this order, produced a very considerabledegree of suffering, as well from extreme cold as from hunger.
Their success in many of these expeditions, is preserved in the traditions of the Delawares, who continue to regard them as having used in these wars, a degree of cunning and stratagem, to which other tribes have never approached.
It provoked us to such a degree that we could not get over it.
In painting the sentiments and the scenes of common life, to write English which Englishmen cannot read, is a degree of insolence hardly known till now, and seems to be nothing but the poor refuge of pedantic dullness.
We found a small church, clean to a degree unknown in any other part of Scotland[29]!
I cannot but have some degreeof parental fondness.
He very fairly denies every degree of merit, to every dramatic writer, of every age or nation, Shakespeare alone excepted.
The Doctor betrays a degree of inconsistency incompatible with his reputed abilities.
It shews us the depth of his learning, and the degree of attention which he thought proper to bestow on his great work.
Gibbs's saloon were exerting their smallest degree of dimness and the bar was doing a good business, the door opened and in staggered Busted Blake.
Mrs. Blake and the child lived in a fair degree of comfort upon the mother's wages, but often the mother shuddered at thought of what might happen should she ever lose her position at the photographer's.
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Both men and women among us loosen their hair and cut it according to the degree of relationship or of devotion.
In the degree in which that true order is asserted, and observed, the health of the State is preserved.
That is a sovereign act; and that act will differ in no degree from a similar act by any other sovereign people.
In the degree in which it is neglected, or frustrated, there is suspicion, irritation, discontent.
But to everydegree of dignity and privilege, there is attached an increase of responsibility.
And could it indeed be introduced in any better way than by pointing out, how even the lowest degreeof knowledge was followed by such a visitation?
The reason rather is, that those parts are here specially to be mentioned, in which the whoring nature openly manifests itself; so that the highest degree of impudence is thereby expressed.
But death is the transition to life; the uttermost degree of sufferings, the forerunner of deliverance and salvation.
That this was indeed considered as guilt, but only as a lower degreeof it, is clearly seen from 1 Kings xvi.
Just as the conversion was very superficial, so was the degree of the higher kind of possession but a very small one.
But the historical point of connection for the announcement of a personal Messiah, which here at once, like a flash of lightning, illuminates the darkness, is not at all wanting to such a degree as is commonly asserted.
His is a specially close relation to the Lord, a specially high degree of illumination.
Should Genesis become to such a degree inconsistent with itself as not to answer a question which itself has called forth?
After the colour has been once fixed on the leather or paper, it cannot be removed by the application of water, or water and soap, and it is in a highdegree permanent.
In publishing his first process, with its working details, Daguerre appears to have surrendered all that he knew, and to have been incapable of carrying his discovery to a higher degree of advancement.
Subsequently Mr. Goddard discovered that the vapour of bromine, added to that of iodine, imparted an extraordinarydegree of sensitiveness to the prepared plate, and reduced the time of sitting from minutes to seconds.
All within the sixth degree of relationship were originally prohibited from marriage, but later this was lowered to relatives of the fourth degree and when, in 49 A.
Though she could not have been persuaded to learn the terms at first, she now understands to some degree Linnaeus' characters--notwithstanding she does not understand Latin.
Persons of low degree are only puffed up by it, and rendered vain and arrogant.
At first the bachelor's degree meant only that the one receiving it was granted the privilege to enter upon the work leading to the other degrees, but later it became a separate degree.
Yet no more can be safely predicted than that this is a crime which to some extent everywhere prevails, and in some places to such a degreeas seriously to affect the proportion of the sexes.
This was not considered dishonorable on the part of the girl nor were her chances for marriage in any degree lessened by her having thus lived in a state of concubinage.
In the working of gold and silver they had reached a high degree of perfection, making most beautiful ornaments, which, in many instances, were superior to the work done in Europe.
They dovetailed and veneered and stained and painted and gilded and inlaid their woodwork, thus displaying a high degreeof skill in working with wood.
The early British matron, even of the highest rank, always nursed her infants, and would have resented in the greatest degree the delegation of this parental office to another woman.
But if women enjoy very little consideration in private life, they are in some degree compensated by the respect which is paid to them in public.
This is a degree of miracle at which my credulity must draw the line.
He was like the senior wrangler who has forgotten how to do quadratics, and has to solve equations of the second degree by the calculus.
As a whole the medical evidence tended to fix the time of death, with a high degree of probability, between the hours of six and half-past eight.
The gold chain was formerly a mark of rank and dignity, and a century before this it had been forbidden for any one under the degree of a gentleman of two hundred marks a year to wear one (Statutes of the Realm, 7 Henry VIII.
All the speeches of Satan are replete with the most biting satire, delivered with an appropriate degree of spirit.
Jonson’s character of Pug was certainly influenced in some degree both by the popular and the literary conception of this ‘lubber fiend’.
It is only, however, in a general way, where the devil stands for a principle, that Pug may be considered as in any degree satirical.
The oddly-named comedy of The Devil is an Ass, acted in 1616, seems already to exhibit a certain degree of decay in the dramatic powers which had so signally called forth its predecessor.
From among these vices we may distinguish in nearly every play a single character as in a preëminent degree the embodiment of evil.
The puzzles are of every degree of difficulty, and so varied in character that perhaps it is not too much to hope that every true puzzle lover will find ample material to interest--and possibly instruct.
The maxim that there are always a right way and a wrong way of doing anything applies in a very marked degree to the solving of puzzles.
He was incorporated master of arts in the university of Oxford, having before taken the same degree at Cambridge 1610.
By his writings, he appears a man of sense, and sometimes a poet, tho' he does not seem to possess any degree of invention.
Having mentioned the Scotch dialect, it will not be improper to observe, that it is at this time much in the same degreeof perfection, that the English language was, in the reigns of Henry VIII.
In 1553 he took a degree in Arts, and was immediately elected Probationer fellow of Merton College, where he gained a superiority over all his fellow students in disputations at the public school.
Perhaps every Colony was faulty in that matter in some degree but neither chose to take any of the Blame of it to its self, & to shift it off each cast the whole upon the others.
The extending the power of the Courts of Vice Admirality to so enormous a degree as deprives the people in the Colonies in a great measure of their inestimable right to tryals by Juries.
You will observe by the inclosd papers, to how great a degree ministerial Instructions are enforcd here.
Indeed the essential rights of all were involved in the question: A different determination would therefore have been to the last degree infamous and attended with fatal consequences.
Thomas Preston, or any other Paper of the like import can be deemed in the opinion of the sensible and impartial part of mankind as sufficient, in the least degree to prejudice the Character of the Town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
