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While normal dwarves looked much like humans, only differently propor - tioned, derro dwarves tended toward the grotesque.

Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

A man-especially a government official-dressing up in women's clothes would cause a scandal of epic propor - tions if it hit the news media.

Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

"Whether it should be a one-member constituency or a propor - tional representation system and if proportional representation, what kind of proportional representation you would like," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

While normal dwarves looked much like humans, only differently propor - tioned, derro dwarves tended toward the grotesque.

Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

Just as Tome had to master only seven of the basic sixteen choices of the primary grid, and a propor - tionate number of each subgrid.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

Just as Tome had to master only seven of the basic sixteen choices of the primary grid, and a propor - tionate number of each subgrid.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

Barbara, not quite as tall - five feet seven, perhaps-was equally beautifully propor - tioned, and even more striking-looking.

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

These terms were not accidental: the Greeks used them because they were convinced that beauty — particularly of the visible and audible kind — consists in an arrangement and propor -

Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

It became a cardinal principle to propor - tion assent to evidence: to each kind of evidence there corresponds a kind or degree of assent, and as the evidence is greater or less so should be one's certainty.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN 1968

And for architects and builders, he set forth in his famous De re aedificatoria (1452) the engineering knowledge of antiquity and his own day, the rules of classical architecture, and a theory of universal Harmony which formed the aesthetic out - look of his age and fostered its quest for propor - tionality.

UNIVERSAL MAN JOAN KELLY GADOL 1968