38 examples of in scale in sentences

My concluding notes are, I suppose, ample in scale: if they are excessive, that is an involuntary error on my part.

The trouble today with nearly all schemes of reform and regeneration is that they are infected with the very imperialism in scale that has produced the conditions they would redeem.

The doors, from Brunelleschi's own hand, in a doorway perfect in scale, are noble and worthy.

It can do no harm, then, if the playwright should ask himself: "Can I, without any undue sacrifice, so develop my theme as to entail upon my leading characters, naturally and probably, an experience of this order?" The peripeties of real life are frequent, though they are apt to be too small in scale, or else too fatally conclusive, to provide material for drama.

Mr. Britton, in his valuable work on York Cathedral, gives a minute description of that part of the Minster which has been destroyed; from which the following is extracted: "After passing through the screen, the visiter is introduced to the choir, which is grand in scale and rich in adornment.

Roulette was O.K., but it seemed too mechanical and small in scale.

As Poetry delights in cloathing abstracted Ideas in Allegories and sensible Images, we find a magnificent Description of the Creation form'd after the same manner in one of the Prophets, wherein he describes the Almighty Architect as measuring the Waters in the Hollow of his Hand, meting out the Heavens with his Span, comprehending the Dust of the Earth in a Measure, weighing the Mountains in Scales, and the Hills in a Balance.

Reduced in scale, and treated with the arid touch of a feeble craftsman, the linear composition suggests no large aesthetic charm.

The labour bestowed upon this point must have been very great; the tone and quantity of words seem weighed in scales of gold.

We do not believe that a Miltonor, in other words, the writer of a "Paradise Lost"could ever be so great as a Shakespeare or a Homer, because (setting aside all other questions) his chief characters are neither human, nor can they be legitimately founded upon humanity; and, moreover, what he has to represent of man is, by the very law of its being, limited in scale and development.

He did not know whether this was a ceremonial to propitiate the god of fishes or to ward off evil spirits in scales.

There were local variations also in scale and intensity; but in general the system in each area tended to be steady and fairly uniform.

It is only another step upward in scale to plan out new, more tolerable conditions of employment for every sort of worker and to organise the transition from our present disorder.

The apparatus, so far as it has been described with any detail, and ignoring what was said about an eye-hole, is little else than a modified copying-camera, by which an image of the transparency could be thrown on the ordinary focusing-screen, and be altered in scale and position until it was adjusted to fiducial lines drawn on the screen.

Good composites cannot be made without very careful adjustment in scale and position.

The particular object of this work is "to exhibit such a number of examples of foliage and other ornamental details of the different styles as clearly to elucidate the characteristic features peculiar to each period; and drawn sufficiently large in scale to be practically useful in facilitating the labours of the Architect and Artist.

The general aspect of the various species which compose this genus of labiate plants, although presenting very characteristic differences, merges gradually from one species to another; all are, in their native habitat, small ligneous undershrubs of from one to two feet in height, with a thin bark, which detaches itself in scales; the leaves are linear, persistent, and covered with numerous hairs, which give the plant a hoary appearance.

The particular object of this work is "to exhibit such a number of examples of foliage and other ornamental details of the different styles as clearly to elucidate the characteristic features peculiar to each period; and drawn sufficiently large in scale to be practically useful in facilitating the labours of the architect and artist.

Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, And ruled off the heavens with a span, Or enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in a balance?

The armour of the horses and the men is terribly alive, and charger and knight make but one monster, clothed in scales of steel.

But in my own adventure, here at home, Of my chast love, to keep me worthy of her, It shall be put in scale 'gainst all ill fortunes: I am not broken yet: nor should I fall, Me thinks with less than that, that ruins all.

SW. of Brieg, a great centre of tourists and the starting-point in particular for the ascent of the Matterhorn. ZERO, a word of Arab origin signifying a cipher, and employed to denote a neutral point in scale between an ascending and descending series, or between positive and negative.

To thee, unblinded by these formal arts, 220 The unity of all hath been revealed, And thou wilt doubt, with me less aptly skilled Than many are to range the faculties In scale and order, class the cabinet Of their sensations, and in voluble phrase 225 Run through the history and birth of each As of a single independent thing.

Gold-pieces and Genius weighed in scales would send poor Genius kicking!

In regard to these men, my fancy and my judgment are in scales; sometimes one preponderates, sometimes the other; which will finally prevail, time alone can reveal."

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