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Example sentences for "compare"

Lexicographically close words:
comparable; comparaison; comparative; comparatively; comparatives; compared; comparee; compares; comparing; comparison
  1. There are, however, two little notes which you should compare in this connexion.

  2. Now it seems to me that in spiritual character we must have something by which we can measure and compare ourselves, and Peter gives us just such a standard when he says, 'As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy'.

  3. By the courtesy of the Council of the Royal Society, I have been able to compare these annotations with certain manuscript letters of Nehemiah Grew's preserved in the Society's Library.

  4. For instance, he seems to have held that to compare the effect of heat on a growing root to the action of the same cause on a thermometer[21] was a quite satisfactory proceeding.

  5. The simplest plan is to compare his results with those obtained by Sachs[32] in allowing plants to absorb solutions of lithium-salts.

  6. I beg of you to compare the first edition of his Methodus with the second and third, where he has learned to take everything from Tournefort.

  7. He longed to see a tropical Flora in a mountainous country, and to compare it at different levels with that of temperate and arctic zones.

  8. They take their own manners and customs for granted, and they cannot see them in their true relations or compare them with the similar manners and customs of other nationalities.

  9. Compare the earthworm's method of digging his subway with that of the armadillo.

  10. Look up the muskrat and compare his ways with those of the beaver.

  11. Try counting the rings of an earthworm and then compare your figures with those given in the article in the "International.

  12. How does the earthworm's method of pushing his way in the world with the end of his nose compare with the way a root works along in the ground?

  13. Not one of them is worth your little finger, not one of them has heart or head to compare with yours!

  14. You cannot help loving all, since you can compare with none, and are above all personal offence or anger.

  15. To compare the various joys we each enjoy.

  16. If the spirit of some observant sage were to return, after the absence of a century, and were to compare the most remarkable movements in the present world of culture, he would find much to interest him there.

  17. In point of fact, there is but one speedy way of convincing oneself of the vulgarity, weirdness, and confusion of our theatrical institutions, and that is to compare them with those which once flourished in ancient Greece.

  18. There is no enlivener of the imagination, no enabler of the judgment, no strengthener of the intellect, to compare with the belief in a live Ideal, at the heart of all personality, as of every law.

  19. Involuntarily, unconsciously, we shall compare with its perfection everything that comes before us for judgment.

  20. The second step was recovery, and it is sufficient for me to ask each and every one of you to compare the situation in agriculture and in industry today with what it was fifteen months ago.

  21. Still more so now because, when I compare him with his survivors, they seem measurable, he remains immeasurable.

  22. Accustomed by degrees to be overmatched and worsted in many engagements, they do not even compare themselves to the Germans in prowess.

  23. The Spanish Ben Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare everything with something else.

  24. Compare that with the orthodox idea, and send out your missionaries to the benighted Hindoos.

  25. Compare that religion with the orthodox tenets of the city of New York.

  26. Mimicry it cannot but appear, when we compare the overwhelming forces that rage in a tropical storm with our electric toys.

  27. With the idea of the verb, we may compare Ps.

  28. With the former, we may compare the prophet's words, chap.

  29. Compare a similar question and answer in an earlier discourse (v.

  30. To what will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?

  31. But perhaps we should rather compare another passage of the book of Isaiah, where it is said: "Iahvah, our God!

  32. Compare Australia in this respect with the English middle classes, and the fallacy will be manifest.

  33. Small as the collection at first seems to be, there is no zooelogical station in the world to compare with it.

  34. This bridge might well compare with the one at Rochester in England.

  35. She was a comely old woman of sixty years of age, tall, and of a majestic appearance, having never seen any one to compare with her in all India.

  36. When you counted up your votes at night, when the polls closed, did you compare your votes with the list?

  37. Compare the administration of female sovereigns of great kingdoms, from Semiramis to Victoria, with the average administration of male sovereigns, and which will suffer by the comparison?

  38. At the same time they do not quite compare with good class leathers, which are still always used for the best hats.

  39. I compare it to boxing, as opposed to the more beautiful science of fencing.

  40. They have their opportunity to compare the portrait with the original.

  41. My feelings were concentrated within the immediate ring where I stood: I can compare them only to those of a gambler determined to throw his largest stake and abide the issue.

  42. Ay, but compare yourself with him, Richie!

  43. Compare them with the two portraits of men in the Dutch Room at the other end of the building.

  44. The Mosaic work, though brought to a wonderful degree of improvement, and admirably calculated for churches, the dampness of which is pernicious to the colours of the pallet, I will not yet compare to the productions of the pencil.

  45. I know not whether I may be allowed to compare the Romish religion to comedy, and Calvinism to tragedy.

  46. I have in vain endeavoured to procure some pieces in the antient Provencal, that I might compare them with the modern Patois: but I can find no person to give me the least information on the subject.

  47. For the rich and varied colour of its landscapes I know no country to compare with Wales, though it has its dull days, of course, like most other lands.

  48. Only compare the sought-for picturesqueness of a model garden city with the natural unsought-for picturesqueness of such old towns as Abbot's Bromley, and oh, the difference!

  49. There is nothing with which to compare her," answered Svirski.

  50. And though, during Litka's illness and funeral, he could discover in himself unfathomable stores of selfishness, he seemed to her so good that she was simply unable to compare him with any one.

  51. Look around," said he, "think what is going on in the world; and to whom can I compare thee?

  52. He was indignant at the very thought that they dared to compare these men with him, especially to his disadvantage.

  53. More than once she stopped to compare him with others, and could not find any one to sustain the comparison.

  54. Never shall I compare them," answered Pani Emilia, "comparison is impossible in this case.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    compare the; compared with