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Example sentences for "though less"

  • It is done not less marvellously, though less distinctly, in the individual parts of all his broken ground, as in examples like these of separate blocks.

  • Aristotle had rendered to the deceased Hermeias the same honours (though less magnificent in degree) as Alexander to the deceased Hephaestion, and the Amphipolitans to the deceased Brasidas (Thucyd.

  • The deceased person sees the misfortunes of his surviving friends with something of the same kind of sympathetic interest, though less in degree, as is felt by a living person in following the representation of a tragedy (i.

  • A share in the stock of the British Linen company of Edinburgh sells, at present, very much below par, though less so than it did some years ago.

  • Even the favouring country, therefore, may still gain by the trade, though less than if there was a free competition.

  • This is the taboo which rests on the eating of certain foods, particularly the flesh of certain animals, though less frequently it applies also to occasional plants.

  • But there is also a second form, which, though less frequent, is of greatest importance for an interpretation of group-marriage.

  • More recent studies have been made of the gestures of the North American Indian tribes, and similar, though less complete, observations have been reported concerning the Australians.

  • The emotions of Edgar, though less fearful, were not less violent nor painful.

  • Several other articles, as common salt, pearlash, and kitchen soda, act in the same way, though less effectively.

  • The former, though less economical, is the one more generally employed.

  • Woodcuts are also copied, though less frequently, by this process.

  • The changes which Weber and his followers effected, though less drastic, were in their results fully as important as those of Gluck.

  • Though less stirring in incident than 'Die Walküre,' it is certainly more sustained in power.

  • Intellectual habits and defects this way contracted, are not less frequent and powerful, though less observed.

  • In the Orthoptera, though less various, it is almost equally conspicuous, especially in Blatta.

  • There is something exquisitely beautiful and touching in the first of these similes: and the second, though less pleasing to the imagination, has the charm of propriety, and expresses the transition with equal force and liveliness.

  • After the Romans came the Goths, and they, too, have left evidence of appreciation (though less conspicuous) alike in city and country.

  • Plentiful, though less so than on San Cristobal in Sierra de Jerez (5000 feet).

  • Here, as generally in South America, though less in Chile than elsewhere, politics is mainly in the hands of the lawyers.

  • In many Catholic countries, severe, though less atrocious, measures were taken to grapple with the evil of mendicancy.

  • We can estimate, though less perfectly, the anguish which the bold enquirer must have undergone from the desertion of those he most dearly loved, from the hatred of mankind, from the malignant calumnies that were heaped upon his name.

  • Duties were imposed at a later period, though less strictly, upon the husband.

  • Though less emphasized, the training for sensual growth is becoming of ever increasing importance in the new education.

  • Though less dramatic in form, the rush toward technical high school courses is equally significant.

  • The thirty-nine articles, though less explicit, imply that which Leonard's creed has the boldness to state.

  • Of course, that was a day-dream, which he laughed at as easily as an older man might have done, though less scornfully.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    that matter; though afraid; though ever; though from; though much; though never; though not; though nothing had happened; though small; though somewhat; though their; though there; though very; though well; though what; though when; thought about; thought better; thought fit; thought only; thought proper; thought worthy; thoughtful pause; thoughtful voice; unequal length; widely known