Compared with the size of the black center, it was as naught; yet, in itself, stupendous.

Compared to these feeble strains, it is the crashing of Julien's hundred brazen instruments to the soft and sweet melody of Ole Bull's violin.

Here it is to be regretted that our materials for forming a judgment are nothing to be compared in point of extent or variety with those which are yielded by the Miocene strata.

But none of these discoveries could compare for a moment with those which took place within the newly constituted colony of Victoria.

"Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by er and est; and dyssyllables by more and most."Ib., p. 19.

Ah, what is mirth but turbulence unholy When with the charm compared of heavenly melancholy! LADY ANNE LINDSAY AULD ROBIN GRAY When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame, And a' the warld to rest are gane, The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e, While my gudeman lies sound by me.

Garrick and Foote compared as companions.

But if there is no stream line, does the contour bend show a valley or a ridge? First of all, there is a radical difference between the bend of a contour round the head of a valley and its bend round the nose of a ridge, Compare on the map the valleys V and the ridges

Then it was a beautiful walk in itself, with its short tacks in the precipitous pine-woods above, its sudden plunge into the sunken gorge below, its final sweep across the green valley beyond; and it was all so new to us both that there were impressions to exchange or to compare at every turn.

How did your family's life compare after Emancipation with it before?

In all the world, there is no country or township known that can ever compare against the beauty and magnitude of the Marvelous Land of Oz.

It is to be understood that we had one detached pendulum swinging in front of a clock pendulum above, and another similarly mounted below; and that the clocks were compared by chronometers compared above, carried down and compared, compared before leaving, and brought up and compared.

The heavenly bodies seem, indeed, to have been the first objects of consciously exact reasoning, because they were so distant that nothing could be known of them except position and movement, and their position and movement could be exactly compared from night to night.

"Dissyllables ending in y, e mute, or accented on the last syllable, may be sometimes compared like monosyllables.

They thought how they might plant a heaven on earth, Whereof they would be principal low-gods;[110] That heaven they called Contemplation: As much to say as a most pleasant sloth, Which better I cannot compare than this, That if a fellow, licensed to beg, Should all his lifetime go from fair to fair And buy gape-seed, having no business else.

It is, I think, matter of congratulation to the Observatory and to Astronomy, that there are now exhibited the results of uninterrupted Lunar Observations extending through more than a century, made at the same place, reduced under the same superintendence and on the same general principles, and compared throughout with the same theoretical Tables.

Quintus Metellus his felicity is infinitely admired amongst the Romans, insomuch that as Paterculus mentioneth of him, you can scarce find of any nation, order, age, sex, one for happiness to be compared unto him: he had, in a word, Bona animi, corporis et fortunae, goods of mind, body, and fortune, so had P. Mutianus, Crassus.

It can be compared without disadvantage to the best work, or all but the very best work, of Thomas Nelson Page, it seems to me.

For in the Apocryphatrue, noble, and good as most of it isyou do not find the same intense faith in the living God, or anything to be compared therewith; and that for the simple reason that the Jews, at the time the Apocrypha was written, were losing that faith very fast.

The various series of prices are compared within themselves, every year with the average of the prices for 1890-1899 in each country, respectively.

The most exquisite work of literary art exhibits a certain crudeness and coarseness, when we turn to it from Nature,as the smallest cambric needle appears rough and jagged, when compared through the magnifier with the tapering fineness of the insect's sting.