...The great breast and heavyfore legs were no more than in proportion with the rest of the body, where themuscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin...
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
... “Sancho, my friend,” replied Don Quixote, “sometimes proportion may be as good as promotion...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
..., proportion...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...In proportion as the tale advanced, the king became agitated, devouring the narrator’s words, and drumming with his finger-nails upon the table...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... A very large proportion of King's stores consisted of morphia and cocaine...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Very nearly always it is an apparently little mistake that does most damage in the end, something unnoticeable at the time, that grows in geometrical proportion, minus instead of plus...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... in proportion to the white inhabitantsof the same...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...A large proportion of the Balonda, indeed, have heads somewhat elongated backward and upward, thick lips, flat noses, elongated 'ossa calces', etc...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The spokesman being a slender man, and the chief six feet high, and stout in proportion, there would have been a break-down had he not been accustomed to it...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The latter has been well roasted in the operations of nature, and contains a large proportion of the metal...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
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