It is true that the respect which he pays to wild beasts is in some measure proportioned to their strength and ferocity.
Also they offer it sacrifices, but these sacrifices are proportioned to the size and strength of the animal.
Their noses had full round points, turned up at the tip; and their eyes, though not small, were scarcely proportioned to the largeness of their faces.
Their mean height and breadth are larger than those of any other known people and the excess is especially apparent when proportioned to stature.
Good to moderate stature, wellproportioned though not fat body, medium to somewhat lighter brown color, physiognomies less typical Eskimo than hitherto and often strongly like Indian.
So Mr Samuel having given large orders to the English houses for goods, at a pretty long credit, got himself in debt to an amount proportioned to the sum he wished to make by his failure.
The ornament it assumes is dignified; no grinning faces, or unmeaning notched planks, but well-proportioned arches, or tastefully sculptured columns.
The architect must be left to his own taste for laying on, sparingly and carefully, a few dispositions of well proportioned line, which are all that can ever be required.
Then we are sure of a beautifully proportioned form.
A number of power purchases, attached to the barrel of a gun constructed to project harpoons, will exert a power, if suddenly relieved, proportioned to their aggregate forces.
The prevention of the effects of cold consists in the use of ample food and clothing proportioned to the inclemency of the weather, the exposure to be endured, and the habits of the wearer.
The temperature of the water should be therefore proportioned to the nature of the vegetable matter operated on.
Prescribers ought not to forget that the action of medicines is not simply proportioned to the amount, but that each remedy has a dose below which it either produces no effect or one contrary to that which we desire it to produce.
Executors, unless relieved by the provisions of the will, are required to file bonds, proportioned to the value of the estate, for the faithful performance of their duties.
Every depositor is liable for a personal property tax proportioned to the amount of his credit.
The church of Belem may be ill-proportioned and unsatisfactory outside, but within it is so solemn and vast as to fill one with surprise.
Another at Guimarães given by Fernando Alvares is less well proportioned and less beautiful.
Though much of the detail of the outside is far from being classical or correct, the whole is well proportioned and well put together, but the same cannot be said of the inside.
The central aisle is over 40 feet wide, and has two very well-proportioned Corinthian pilasters between each bay.
Below, there are in front four well-proportioned and well-designed Doric columns; beyond them and next the outer columns are large projecting pilasters forming buttresses, not unlike the buttresses in some of the earlier cloisters.
Outside, the church as a whole is neither well proportioned nor graceful.
Each party to a dispute had been required to produce oath- helpers or compurgators and each compurgator's oath was valued according to his property, just as the number of a man's votes is still proportioned to some extent to his possessions.
Like all Bennett-Built Homes, the Richard has well-lighted and well-proportioned rooms without an exception.
The rooms are fairly proportionedand well lighted.
You can see that the pretty exterior effect is obtained by the use of a well proportioned porch, large built-up porch columns, broad overhanging roof, clapboards for side walls with shingles and panels for gables.
The bedrooms are large-sized and amply proportioned with good light.
Coming to the upstairs we will find three thoughtfullyproportioned bedrooms, with spacious closet or wardrobe space.
They must have had some knowledge of engineering, or they never could have reared such enduring, well-proportioned structures.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength!
Musaeus and Orpheus are semi-mythical bards, to whom is ascribed a greatness proportioned to their obscurity.
To my proportioned strength: make my trial proportionate to my strength.
The aisles are cut off from the nave by a flat wall with square pillars and ill-proportioned pointed arches.
The entrance archway to this gem of the East, an intricate and well-proportioned feature, rests on two green and two dark coloured columns.
The Casa de Miranda, with a noble courtyard and well-proportioned fluted columns, near which is the Casa de Angulo a strong fortress-like building.
On the north rises the Torre de Comares, the approach to which is through a beautifully proportioned chamber, the roof of which was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1890.
Juan Gil de Hontañon, who designed this and the sister Cathedral at Segovia, surpassed himself with the Great Tower and its finely-proportioned dome, the top of which is 360 feet high.
They treated him with a warmth and kindness, studiously proportioned to the ill-treatment of his superior.
In the too sanguine hope of reaching France, with a speed proportioned to their eager desires, they laid in no adequate provision for a long voyage.
The problem of justice is that of according to each a degree of recognition proportioned to his intelligence, that is, treat others as ends so far as they are intelligent; so far as they are ignorant treat them as means.
The caloric produces a second effect, by means of the repulsive force exerted between its particles; it causes the gasses, disengaged at the moment of deflagration, to expand with a degree of force proportioned to the temperature produced.
Fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just bias; P: Who created thee, then fashioned, then proportioned thee?
It will generally be found sufficient to preserve this spirit of their laws alone, to which our ideas may be proportioned and accommodated.
The church has a fine tower and well-proportioned spire of the 13th cent.
That on the north is admirably proportioned with spire and angle spirelets of the period, 1365, when Jean de Montfort laid the first stone.
It more resembles that of Pleyben, and is remarkably well proportioned and dignified.
The parish church at Carnac was rebuilt in 1639 and has a well proportioned tower and spire, with spirelets at the angles.
The walls are coated with stucco, which detracts considerably from the beauty of this handsomely proportioned building.
The twin-towered Priory Church, a gatehouse of singular interest, and some slight, gracefully proportioned ecclesiastical ruins are the main features of interest.
All true and well-proportioned living must begin in well-proportioned thought.
