Which preposition to use with size
Compared with the size of the black center, it was as naught; yet, in itself, stupendous.
When he mounted the rock, about eleven o'clock, the sky was overcast, and he caught three or four trout of good size in the course of half an hour; but the sun coming out bright and clear, the fish altered their minds, and refused to have anything more to do with his hook.
In each room is a high narrow cupboard about one quarter of the necessary size for all that education demands; most education authorities provide some good pictures, but the best are usually hung on the class-room wall behind the children, and all are above the children's eye level.
Below it we entered an open cleft of some size to another squarer cave.
A few miles farther north lies Lake Independence, about the same size as Donner.
The first is of the animal kingdom, and varyin in size from a 3 yeer old snappin' turtle, to a lode of hay.
The stomach is subject to greater variations in size than any other organ of the body, depending on its contents.
It increased in size with amazing rapidity, till, in a very few seconds after its first appearance, it had a very perceptible disc.
Coming again to the surface, I noticed boulders of every size on their journeys to the terminal morainejourneys of more than a hundred years, without a single stop, night or day, winter or summer.
The larger size at 5s. is the more convenient for ordinary use.
Then cover the basin with a cloth, put it in a warm place, and when the dough has nicely risen, knead it into small balls; butter the bottom of a deep sauté-pan, strew over some pounded sugar, and let the dampfnudeln be laid in, but do not let them touch one another; then pour over sufficient milk to cover them, put on the lid, and let them rise to twice their original size by the side of the fire.
In the morning of the next day, being October 13th, many of the natives returned on board the ships in their boats or canoes, which were all of one piece hollowed like a tray from the trunk of a tree; some of these were so large as to contain forty or forty-five men, while others were so small as only to hold one person, with many intermediate sizes between these extremes.
Both Daggett and Gardiner were of opinion that the fall of a berg of equal size within a cable's length of the schooners might seriously endanger the vessels by dashing them against some wall of ice, if in no other manner.
" Some one had told them that moonstones were to be found on the beach at the base of the cliff; so they all climbed down the steep path, followed by Mumbles, who had not perceptibly grown in size during the trip but had acquired an adventurous disposition which, coupled with his native inquisitiveness, frequently led him into trouble.
The specimens before me, which are small, differ materially from some of the same size among the American species.
Already men had begun to hollow it and to carve human figures life-size along its sides.
with a narrow black ban', jes' about the size ob a sheet of mo'nin' paper!
The briquettes were broken up to convenient sizes before being put in the bunkers.
Birch bark canoes can be secured of any size up to the big ones manned by ten Indians that carry three tons.
These gradually increase in size until, finally, they rupture the skin and appear as rootlets.
And indeed the moon, a quarter full and sinking in the west, was in its apparent size beyond comparison, but scarcely in all its breadth had it as much brightness now as the little circle of the strange new star.
Take this packet," he continued, placing a sealed letter of more than usual size into the hand of the gondolier, and drawing from his finger a signet ring, "with this token of thy authority.
Dredge lightly with flour over the top, and roll out gently to the required size without turning.
In every particular is she a ship a size above your own.
A loaf should nearly double its size after being placed in a pan, before baking; when perfectly risen, the bread feels light when lifted and weighed upon the hand.