proportioned

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Proportioned to her gratitude, was her fidelity to her heavenly Spouse.

From The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation by Religious of the Ursuline Community, A

Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of youth, a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetness.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided,�a care pretermitted in no single case.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Certes it was not body; he was well Proportioned, as a poplar or a pole, A handsome man, that human miracle; And in each circumstance of Love or War Had still preserved his perpendicular.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Proportioned somewhat like a clothes-pin, he could not stand much lengthening of limb.

From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell