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• In a certain measure he was right. (9)
• He must measure her by a special standard. (5)
• Yet actual internment was an extreme measure. (12)
• Elizabeth was, in fact, revolving a great measure. (4)
• A certain measure of astonishment moved him still. (10)
• He whistled mad waltzes to the measure of the wheels. (10)
• They ought in great measure to be for the father, too. (9)
• Perhaps they used rather low mountains to measure them by. (9)
• We measure everything by one yardstick, and that is money. (13)
• Melody enters in measure one with subordinate accompaniment. (3)
• The pendulum has swung in that direction out of all measure. (9)
• So, foot the measure, Roving Tim, And croak, my jolly raven! (10)
• The circus is in a measure at his mercy and he is insatiable. (21)
• Her first measure was to compel Sir Franks to put down his book. (10)
• They measure the same number of feet when stretched their length. (10)
• What eye or thought can measure now Thy grand dilating loftiness! (10)
• The measure of his talent and success was, of course, still in question. (12)
• In this he is a classic, and is worthy of treading a measure with Moliere. (10)
• Like the speaking of great Nature, what it means is implied by the measure. (10)
• The chorus chants to a muted measure of suspense, while Camillo dips pen in ink. (10)
• You seem to fancy elastic limbs bending to the measure of a solemn church-organ. (10)
• And on this day they who chance in the Park cannot escape some measure of possession. (8)
• In a great measure we may, and shall, eradicate this haunting flavour of the country. (2)
• Willoughby thought it just to himself that he should defend his measure of severity. (10)
• The blank spaces in the measure were filled in by an instrument, probably the cithara. (3)
• These units are built of sheet steel, strongly reinforced, and measure 2 feet square. (17)
• I can judge but poorly of anything while I measure it by no other standard than itself. (9)
• Do you think me so dull that I cannot measure his deeds or their heavy weight and cost? (12)
• He maintains that a story should not always flow, or, at least, not to a given measure. (10)
• He will have a wholesome contempt for facile success; he will measure by exacting standards. (16)
• If you are below the measure they have made of you, you will feel it in the fulness of time. (10)
• Miss Rebecca Lowell died in May, so that the household at Elmwood was in a measure dissolved. (14)
• These words of Barclugh in his delirium, though disconnected, agitated Segwuna beyond measure. (18)
• A Greek got his civilisation by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. (9)
• He weighed the wife by the measure of the sister, perhaps; or his military head had no room for either. (10)
• In his opinion they were in safe hands, and he was glad to register his support of the measure proposed. (8)
• Needs only his law on a sensible nerve: A law that to Measure invites, Forbidding the passions contend. (10)
• Adela silenced her suspicion, easily enough; but this did not prevent her taking a measure to satisfy it. (10)
• Without having a great brain, the measure of it possessed by Skepsey was alive under strong illumination. (10)
• In some measure the architect seemed to share his delusion, and freely said that Lapham was very suggestive. (9)
• Now the curse is on the whole country; the dollar is the measure of every value, the stamp of every success. (9)
• So that the plain sense of value insisted on more than one weighing of the gain in hand: a dubious measure. (10)
• There was that measure of truth in the words which silences; no one could find just the terms of refutation. (9)
• If the lights measure 9 inches by 12 inches, then the sash size will be 2 feet 7½ inches by 4 feet 6 inches. (17)
• The Republic by the way, small enough in the ring of empires and monarchies, if you measure it geometrically! (10)
• This simile says more than I mean it to say, but those who understand similes will know the measure due to them. (10)
• A man lived who could measure it from end to end; foretell its term; handle the young cherub as were he a shot owl! (10)
• Even Modestine was inspired by this purified nocturnal sunshine, and bestirred her little hoofs as to a livelier measure. (2)
• He did so, carelessly swaying his hand to the measure of the aria, with an increasing bitter comparison of the two voices. (10)
• The height of spires cannot be taken by trigonometry; they measure absurdly short, but how tall they are to the admiring eye! (2)
• He outlived the condemnation that this brought, and I think that no man ever came near him without in some measure loving him. (9)
• In the measure of that tendency it would gain the public confidence without which it can benefit no one—not even the publisher. (16)
• The marvel of his invention was still fresh in the minds of men, and time had not dulled in any measure the sense of its novelty. (9)
• His intensity of sensation launched him on an eternity of the swinging in ridiculous nakedness to the measure of time gone crazy. (10)
• Mrs. Waddy brought down a young man from London to measure me, so that my mourning attire might be in the perfect cut of fashion. (10)
• Is literature an amusement only, or is it a living force which on public grounds the critic has every right in all ways to measure? (16)
• Mrs. Berry was requested to drink some wine, which Ripton poured out for her, enabling Mrs. Berry thereby to measure his condition. (10)
• At these feasts, which were often of after-dinner-speaking measure, he could always be trusted for something of amazing delightfulness. (9)
• Like featherings hither and yon Of aery tree-twigs over marge, To the comb of the winds, untrimmed, Their measure is found in the vast. (10)
• Her social training and natural perception raised her to a height to measure the bombastical and distinguish it from the eloquently lofty. (10)
• They did not understand, that as a precautionary measure against just such accidents, the fiery animals are trained to run with the music. (21)
• The time is very slow; each measure represents a line of four syllables; between the lines one of the instruments gives a sort of interlude. (3)
• We loathe it the more, by the measure of our contempt for them, when we have made the people within the shadow-circle of our person slavish. (10)
• When at last she rejoined him on the towing-path a little beyond Caversham lock he had made an effort, and regained some measure of equanimity. (8)
• Subject (or melody) enters in measure one; again, transposed to the fourth below in measure three, and one octave below in measure ten. (3)

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