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Example sentences for "comparison with"

  • So that as far as can be judged from so few capsules, the self-fertility of the self-fertilised plants had not decreased in comparison with that of the plants which had been intercrossed during the three previous generations.

  • In comparison with her, a woman, I might have been called erudite and well-informed.

  • His pupil then caught a glimpse himself of the grotesqueness of wishing to endure for millions of centuries, which time even then was nothing in comparison with eternity.

  • Her nature was tropical in comparison with Mrs. Charite Paludan-Müller's North Pole nature.

  • In comparison with them, the older ones, profile soldiers, so small that you could only look at them sideways, sank into utter insignificance.

  • Twas not Phil's way to speak ill of people, but when one considered men in comparison with Margaret, they looked indeed very crude and unworthy.

  • In its general character the book invites comparison with Scott's "Waverley.

  • That also meant in fact nothing, but it was explained in a sense by a comparison with shapes: for that of a statue is produced only by removal of the superfluous marble.

  • The Middle Ages were indifferent to national distinctions, as to everything earthly, and naught was of value in comparison with man's transcendent destiny.

  • In comparison with reason (as the faculty of Ideas, the faculty of thinking the infinite) even the greatest thing that can be given in the sense-world appears small; reason is the absolutely great.

  • The historical influence exercised by Comte through his later writings is extremely small in comparison with that of his chief work.

  • In itself a benevolent impulse is never too strong; it can become so only in comparison with self-love, or in respect to the constitution of the individual in question, and conversely.

  • She rather tended to depreciate her own gifts, in comparison with those of her friend, Miss Lurida Vincent.

  • The Snow-Storm" naturally enough brings to mind the descriptions of Thomson and of Cowper, and fragment as it is, it will not suffer by comparison with either.

  • To this cause the "Times" attributes the falling off of English workmen in comparison with those of the Continent.

  • For my own part, I hold life as little in comparison with my duty to my prince.

  • This suggests a comparison with Sadu, 'the hunter,' in the Gilgamesh epic.

  • No," said one of the women: "what is our life in comparison with that of a priest?

  • God, but secondarily in certain bodily signs of humility; thus when we genuflect we signify our weakness in comparison with God, and when we prostrate ourselves we profess that we are nothing of ourselves.

  • In comparison with blasphemy, every sin is slight.

  • Moreover charity may be compared with this subject, both from the general point of view of form in comparison with matter, and from the specific point of view of habit as compared with power.

  • The two hundred pictures in Rivington's edition made it, of course, high priced in comparison with Newbery's books: but New York then contained many families well able to afford this outlay to secure such an acquisition to the family library.

  • The illustrations, in comparison with others of the time, are very well engraved, although the choice of subjects is somewhat singular.

  • France has produced numerous writers of fables since the time of La Fontaine, but none worthy of comparison with him.

  • The younger Edda repeats in prose the sublime poetry of the elder Edda, mixed with many extravagances and absurdities; and in point of literary and philosophical value it bears no comparison with it.

  • In this respect a phrenologist is a pure quack in comparison with a lady in a trance.

  • Although money has no influence in politics, or as little as well may be, even the successful politician is but a secondary man in ordinary society in comparison with the millionnaire.

  • But as for the others; there is such a plague of lawyers, petty attornies, and scribes, that the locusts of Egypt bore light upon the country, in comparison with them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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