I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt an uneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to the occasion.
One wonders that men of five feet and some inches high should build, for their own use, rooms so disproportionate to their stature.
Madness is the disproportionate straining or excess of any one of them.
An erroneous impression had been conveyed to my brain through the ear; and by its disproportionate tenacity--disproportionate to my perceptive power at the moment--had prevented my receiving a new and truer impression through the eye.
It is idle to ignore in Mr. Gladstone's style an over-refining in words, an excess of qualifying propositions, a disproportionate impressiveness in verbal shadings without real difference.
I observed that some hutches possessed a disproportionate number of inmates.
The clear, bright moon showed eight well-armed men,--rather a disproportionate force for the attacking three.
The disproportionate part played by costume and decoration in the sex-governed activities of the dependent woman, has given a peculiar cant to her beauty-sense.
But what made these conditions so completely unsound was the disproportionate division of the treasure expended.
A sense of wrong in the past and distrust for the future was ever deepening in their minds, and preparing them to be suddenly thrown by any small provocation into an antagonism and hostility grossly disproportionate to the apparent cause.
A disproportionate amount of time and energy will not be devoted to this detail.
Therefore, although the number of college women in the United States is not great, their value eugenically is wholly disproportionate to their numbers.
These Whales resemble the Cachalots, both in the vastness of their bulk, and in the disproportionate size of their head, when compared with their entire length.
In consequence of their almost disproportionate spread of wing, they can sustain themselves in the air for lengthened periods, without taking or requiring rest.
It seems to be raised on legs of disproportionate height.
That these expenses have at times been extravagant and disproportionate is very probable.
In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction, and a wearisome train of circumlocution, and tells the incident imperfectly in many words, which might have been more plainly delivered in few.
Jane made one of her mighty protests, so infinitely disproportionate in size to her little ladyship, but the self-willed princess would not listen to her, and was for coming alone if Jane would not come with her.
