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Example sentences for "greater degree"

  • It is connected also with the principle of the feudal system, into which it would probably settle should it attain to a greater degree of refinement.

  • The arts in general are carried among these people to a greater degree of perfection than by the other natives of Sumatra.

  • Some gentlemen think, that the claims of this latter class merit a greater degree of attention, because by their actions, they seem to have evinced a greater degree of confidence in the Government than those who sold them.

  • He wished gentlemen were aware of what consequences these things lead to, that they might exert a greater degree of caution.

  • The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.

  • Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution.

  • The former, with a greater degree of activity, of common sense, of information, and of general aptitude, has the characteristic good and evil qualities of the middle classes.

  • The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants; and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.

  • I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me, and was ever on the watch to prevent artifice; and by these means gained a greater degree of tranquillity.

  • Their action is modified to a greater degree by idiosyncrasy and habit than that of, perhaps, any other class of medicines.

  • Oil of cassia is less limpid than oil of cinnamon, and it stands a greater degree of cold without becoming turbid or congealing.

  • It must be borne in mind, however, that in increasing the power of the eye-piece we do not magnify the object itself in a greater degree, but simply increase the image of the object formed by the object-glass.

  • The word "conscience," as it is more generally used, seems to emphasize the element of reflection in a greater degree than "moral sense.

  • In some of them this property occurs in a greater degree than in others, but is constant for the same substance under the same circumstances.

  • The object of all these implements and machines is to abridge human labour, and to perform the different operations to which they are applied with a greater degree of rapidity, and in a more perfect manner than before.

  • The disposition and education of females are such as tend to produce habits of sloth and indolence to a greater degree than in the other sex.

  • England, but generally to a greater degree, being almost black over the whole back; others are identical with the so-called C.

  • Hence it is evident that they must be able to produce a greater degree of heat, when surrounded by a cold medium; and on the contrary, that they must effect a diminution of the heat, when the surrounding medium is very hot.

  • In a greater degree of heat the dephlogisticated air will be recovered, and the mercury be revived; but the substance yields nitrous air after it becomes solid, and till it changes from yellow to red.

  • At a greater degree of heat it parts with that air, and is running mercury again.

  • In a greater degree of heat it becomes massicot again, having parted with its pure air.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    correlated variation; felt bound; good circumstances; good citizenship; greater amount; greater degree; greater depth; greater detail; greater evil; greater importance; greater length; greater numbers; greater pleasure; greater portion; greater quantity; greater share; greater than; greater value; home from; our king; said dolefully; scarcely audible; take some; things pertaining; walk home; wild shout