The Just, then, is a certain proportionable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Guns, with a proportionable number of Swivells and. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
A proportionable part of the hill was included in the grant. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
St. Cleeve a space proportionable to that occupied by his year with. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
The cypress grows very straight and tall, with a proportionable thickness. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
The wolf is not above fifteen inches high, and of a proportionable length. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
MRS. RICH: I spoke to her with a mien and tone proportionable to my equipage. From Wordnik.com. [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference
Delicacy, nor is the manner of their Writing proportionable to the dignity of the Subject. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)] Reference
When, as we may suppose, they have run a length proportionable to their width, they compose. From Wordnik.com. [The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath] Reference
The father appropriates a proportionable extent of ground, without rent, for their pasturage. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Upon small offences he bestowed pardon; for such as were great he exercised proportionable severity. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
But those towers, are not to be of the height of the front, but rather proportionable to the lower building. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
The inhabitants of Magnesia, under Mount Sipylus, were held the next in sufferings, and had proportionable relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
These sentences have, I hear, given offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
Provided nevertheless the Said District Shall pay their proportionable part of all such Town County Parish and Province. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884] Reference
He was of Stature somewhat Tall, exceeding the meane, with a proportionable bigness to become it, but no way inclining to. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
Douer, were increased to an hundred and thirtie, being notwithstanding of no proportionable bignesse to encounter with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
But if he should say, Behold, I vow wood; he shall not offer less than two pieces of a cubit long, and breadth proportionable. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
By the proceedings of the synod in accommodating a suitable and proportionable remedy to every malady at that time distempering the. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
Importation of so much Saltpetre, with a proportionable quantity of Sulphur, as with the Powder procured will make five hundred tons. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
Always choose a hive proportionable to the size of your swarm, and prepare to hive them as soon as possible, lest they should rise again. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year] Reference
Take heed of despising "the day of small things," by looking after some great visitation, proportionable to thy distress, according to thy eye. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
It contenteth wise artificers to have their instruments proportionable to their work, rather fit for use than huge and goodly to please the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Is it for want of wisdom to choose suitable and proportionable means to the end proposed? or is it for want of power to effect what he intendeth?. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
Being brought to a proper degree of fermentation and consistency, it is rolled up into balls proportionable to the intended largeness of the cakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827] Reference
Carriage Guns, and a proportionable Number of Swivells, with Eighty Men, be fitted with all possible dispatch, for a Cruize of three months, and that the. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
For they strive not to bestow labour proportionable to the fertility and compass of their lands, by planting orchards, by enclosing meadows, by watering gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
He was proportionable in all parts, and had strength equal to height, valour to his strength, temper to his valour, so that he disdained to do an injury to any single person. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850] Reference
But from the south coast of Gennesaret to the springs of Jordan, were about forty miles; which to assign to the land of Nephthali alone, is neither proportionable nor congruous. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Well-water with eight; and so are all River-waters in a proportionable degree, and where they can be obtain'd clean and pure, Drink may be drawn fine in a few Days after Tunning. From Wordnik.com. [The London and Country Brewer] Reference
The means employed to bring it about were in no degree proportionable. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope] Reference
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