Which preposition to use with larges
At a tremendous distance below, the arena showed, dimly; with the mighty House looking no larger than a tiny spot of green.
" "But, father," said I, "the diameter of the earth being but four times as large as that of the moon, how can the violent separation of so large a portion of our planet be accounted for?
And because an ax, and saw, and frow are all the capital required for the business, many of that drifting, unsteady class of men so large in California engage in it for a few months in the year.
My industrial plan is the largest of historyit is also the most simple.
Should he refuse, it will be my melancholy duty to cleave the diamond into a number of smaller stones, as it is too large for my use.
Threatened with the phenomenon known to political economists under the name of "oliganthropy," or lack of men, she had founded a colonial empire which may be regarded as the largest on earth.
As the same part of the moon is always turned to the earth, one half of her surface is perpetually illuminated by a moon ten times as large to the eye as the sun; the other hemisphere is without a moon.
Huge surges were racing in from seaward, growing larger with each successive billow.
The horns are so large at the base that they cover the upper portion of the head down nearly to a level with the eyes, and the skull is exceedingly strong.
He was a huge man, and he bulked larger by reason of the heavy furs that enveloped him.
During the previous spring the government herd had stampeded from Fort Leavenworth, and between two and three hundred of the horses were running at large over the Kansas prairies, and had become quite wild.
"But those who are found to have lived an eminently holy life, these are they who, being freed and set at large from these regions in the earth, as from a prison, arrive at the pure abode above, and dwell on the upper parts of the earth.
Without entering at large into any invidious discussion on the causes of the natural jealousy which they felt toward Holland, it may suffice to state that such did exist, and in no very moderate degree.
If, however, I am aware of the medium and its nature, then I am not deceived, and what I see is "reality," since it is as natural and real for the fly to look larger through the optician's lense, as to look smaller through the optic lense.
Walker's actions, words, and correspondence all proved him a dangerous rebel whom no governor could possibly leave at large without breaking his oath of office.
They were big promises and they required time and careful study for their successful undertaking and the cooperation of the people at large against the public enemies, whereas Madero was not given time nor favorable circumstances nor the intelligent cooperation of any but a small proportion of the population.
The woodland, or cock of the wood, is the largest among the bird tribes which pass under the denomination of game.
Her little nose becomes large like yours: oval face, square face; really the resemblances are astonishing in certain families.
There was no light, except a glimmer of stars through a large after port, but against this faint radiance she stood vaguely revealed.
Bark will do it, which accounts for the fact that the blood of dogs has a large per centage of iron.
A boy ought to be playing cricket with other boys, not wandering at large about the country, probably smoking and going into low public houses.
If you had understood" And as I spoke, the enormity of the thing loomed still larger before me.
to find myself larger around the waist than a boy a whole year my senior!
Towards noon, however, we passed the first chain, and saw, across a strip of rolling land intervening, the grand ramparts of the second, looming dark and large under the clouds.
The complete British loss in killed and wounded was wonderfully small, only thirty, just one-tenth of the corresponding American loss, which was large out of all proportion.