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  • Pitched arguments were made for or against the importance of gait, hocks, flanks, the function of the tail; the optimum angle of the pasterns, how much this might vary between the Fortunate Fields lines and the Sawtelle dogs;   (source)
    vary = be different
  • There's Batman, Superman, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, all to varying degrees of effort.   (source)
    varying = differing
  • We had to list the highest grade level we'd completed, which could vary immensely, since only Sixes and Sevens went to the public schools and had actual grade levels.   (source)
    vary = differ (be different)
  • It's easy to allocate resources when everyone gets the same thing, but everything is more varied at the Dauntless compound.   (source)
    varied = different (not all the same)
  • The rhythm of the gesture never varied.   (source)
    varied = changed
  • I jerked awake and made an honest effort to remain so, by looking down and concentrating on the heads below: there were sixteen bald ones, fourteen men that could pass for redheads, forty heads varying between brown and black,   (source)
    varying = differing
  • Though the languages in which it was told varied as widely as the terrain he covered-ranging from Afrikaans to Hindi to Japanese to Welsh-and the details of the story often changed, its basic premise was the same:   (source)
    varied = differed
  • Whatever disappears must be replaced by new products, more numerous and varied than before.   (source)
    varied = differing (having a variety)
  • There were, I considered, amongst my guests, varying degrees of guilt.   (source)
    varying = differing
  • We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is a cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible.   (source)
    varied = differing (from a variety of causes)
  • But, as respects the majority of my corps of veterans, there will be no wrong done if I characterize them generally as a set of wearisome old souls, who had gathered nothing worth preservation from their varied experience of life.   (source)
    varied = differing
  • After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.   (source)
    varied = variety of
  • Each has a thick coat, some with fur that is straight and sleek, others curly, and the colors vary from jet black to what I can only describe as blond.†   (source)
  • He had simply got up to teach one day and left his body behind him in an armchair in front of the staff room fire; his routine had not varied in the slightest since.†   (source)
  • Not only would the results vary if different accelerators were used, but even with the same accelerator, experiments performed at different times would give different results.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the Count wondered if the height of the balcony was sufficient to measure the influence of mass on the descent of varying objects.†   (source)
  • Mamaw, Aunt Wee, Lindsay, and Mom all told varying degrees of the same story: that Dad was mean.†   (source)
  • There's church, school, tons of homework, my exercise routine, babysitting, and other things; it varies each week ….†   (source)
  • There had to be at least fifty of them, their clothes smudged and sweaty as if they'd been hard at work, all shapes and sizes and races, their hair of varying lengths.†   (source)
  • A dozen immersion rigs were available, of varying quality and price.†   (source)
  • He kept twitching his ears and varying the sideways turn of his head.†   (source)
  • A laser-tooled varying matrix.†   (source)
  • Juvenile justice systems vary across the United States, but most states would have kept Trina, Ian, or Antonio in juvenile custody until they turned eighteen or twentyone.†   (source)
  • I was let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old.†   (source)
  • In general, then, they talked about the other news stories, those that varied day to day, and afterward they amused themselves by reading the advertisements.†   (source)
  • Colonel Jim Atwood was a man of varied interests.†   (source)
  • They had been using it all summer with varying results.†   (source)
  • That one meal never varied: hot water with a little salt or pepper, and if we were lucky, bits of potato skin and slivers of other vegetables.†   (source)
  • There would be, as the brochure said, "several comfort zones to accommodate varying sizes of hogs."†   (source)
  • Most of the court, Dorian included, wore masks of varying sizes, shapes, and colors—some of simple design, others elaborate and animal-shaped.†   (source)
  • After a search that transported me through widely varying degrees of air-conditioned coolness, I found a makeshift men's room, which was labeled "Men's Temporary Facilities."†   (source)
  • Once she learned a pattern, she never varied.†   (source)
  • Interaction between the male species and the female species was varied and intense and highly unpredictable.†   (source)
  • Ominously, she did not vary her tone.†   (source)
  • All 25 of the courses take 414 days, and vary only slightly in thrust duration and angle.†   (source)
  • The rumors about them vary, but it boils down to something simple and chilling: they can enter your head, read your thoughts, and control your mind.†   (source)
  • He liked the fast pace and variety of that department, where cases could vary from gunshot wounds to dog bites to upset stomachs.†   (source)
  • "Susie," my mother said, bracing up under the weight of it, a weight that she naively hoped might lighten someday, not knowing that it would only go on to hurt in new and varied ways for the rest of her life.†   (source)
  • The kids come from varying backgrounds and challenges, and I feel that with what we can offer them they can learn to overcome many challenges in their lives.†   (source)
  • The letter was handwritten on fine, unlined paper in looping script so ornate it was almost calligraphy, the black ink varying in tone like that of an old fountain pen.†   (source)
  • The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.†   (source)
  • Sources of information vary, but it is estimated that one in five children are physically, emotionally or sexually abused in our country.†   (source)
  • As it turns out, the average number of items answered on that questionnaire varies from country to country.†   (source)
  • Lysa's policies varied with her moods, and her moods changed hourly.†   (source)
  • He now took twenty steps and saw seven, all at varying ranges, none close enough to shoot, all standing out like sore thumbs because they were brown against the white snow.†   (source)
  • Cinder ignored her, selecting an assortment of varying tools and arranging them on Iko's magnetic torso.†   (source)
  • It varies from person to person.†   (source)
  • The house slanted, its corners resting on piles of rocks of varying sizes that had been holding it above ground for more than two hundred years, its base high enough off the ground for a small child to crawl under.†   (source)
  • It was the Blagulon Kappa policecraft, a bulbous sharklike affair, slate-green in color and smothered with black stenciled letters of varying degrees of size and unfriendliness.†   (source)
  • But since none of us are alike and are all plagued by varying degrees of modesty, each member of the family has selected a different place to wash.†   (source)
  • Sickly house plants; signed black-and-white photo of John and Yoko; bulletin board shaggy with leaflets and flyers for satsangs and yoga classes and varied holistic modalities.†   (source)
  • Zoologists think the koala once ate a more varied diet than it does now.†   (source)
  • Their underlying motives were no less varied than the motives of Western climbers, but at least part of the incentive was job security: as Lopsang explained, 'After Sherpa climbs Everest, easy to find work.†   (source)
  • She and Jack had discussed ways they might handle just such a question from Danny, ways that had varied from evasion to the plain truth with no varnish on it.†   (source)
  • The color varies from person to person.†   (source)
  • Distance can be adjusted by varying the amount of cheese used to fire the projectile.†   (source)
  • Neither chronological nor alphabetical but it rarely varies, unless Ruth May gets distracted and falls out of line.†   (source)
  • Well, it varies quite a lot, actually.†   (source)
  • It varies from Garde to Garde.†   (source)
  • He knew that time had not stopped-any more than it stopped while a ship was under Hawking drive-it was merely a matter of varying rates.†   (source)
  • The walls, the high-beamed ceiling, the wooden floors, and the thick carpets were all varying shades of white.†   (source)
  • Points of view vary, but slightly.†   (source)
  • They're made of bamboo, or fake bamboo, and between each stick are varying amounts of space.†   (source)
  • This was to be accomplished, Olmsted wrote, "through the mingling intricately together of many forms of foliage, the alternation and complicated crossing of salient leaves and stalks of varying green tints in high lights with other leaves and stalks, behind and under them, and therefore less defined and more shaded, yet partly illumined by light reflected from the water."†   (source)
  • Tasks of varying nobility, to be sure, but structurally all the same.†   (source)
  • The work was demanding, and the flow did not stop, but it varied just enough, and the validation was frequent enough, that she settled into a comfortable rhythm.†   (source)
  • What they carried varied by mission.†   (source)
  • He was immortal, yet his visible age seemed to vary from century to century.†   (source)
  • To quote Kramer and Maier again, '[They believed in] the existence from time primordial of a fundamental, unalterable, comprehensive assortment of powers and duties, norms and standards, rules and regulations, known as me, relating to the cosmos and its components, to gods and humans, to cities and countries, and to the varied aspects of civilized life.'†   (source)
  • But cattle still come in all sizes and shapes, varying in weight by hundreds of pounds.†   (source)
  • Of course, the servants' hall at Darlington Hall, like any servants' hall anywhere, was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception, and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee and at times, I regret to say, members of my own staff - excitedly eulogized the likes of, say, Mr Jack Neighbours.†   (source)
  • He locked the door and shuttered the wide windows of the inn, as if to distance himself from the stars and all their varied names.†   (source)
  • The older women—Maureen's friends—present varying food items in plastic, dishwasher-safe containers they will later ask to be returned.†   (source)
  • She kept looking from face to face, marking the differences between them—they varied widely in age and race and overall appearance, and yet they all gave the same impression of immense, contained power.†   (source)
  • An illustrious traveler of the period described the market as one of the most varied in the world.†   (source)
  • As the seizures worsened, Maranda's parents took her from specialist to specialist and received varying diagnoses.†   (source)
  • Two weeks later I paid their bill for 140 dollars, rode the cycle carefully at varying low speeds to wear it in and then after one thousand miles opened it up.†   (source)
  • For all things were a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water, but in varying proportions.†   (source)
  • Though the methods varied, the pain was as consistent as it was deep.†   (source)
  • …and evoked emotions from her own childhood, and jagged musings on the fate of her parents and her sister, and Saeed, for his part, was inhabiting a chamber that had been his only briefly, years ago, when relatives from afar or abroad used to come to visit, and being billeted here again conjured up for him echoes of a better era, and so in these several ways these three people sharing this one apartment splashed and intersected with each other across varied and multiple streams of time.†   (source)
  • People do it all the time—with varying degrees of success, sure, but they do.†   (source)
  • You have to compromise with your sister, your mother has to compromise with your father, the sea and land have to compromise about a shoreline, and it varies from time to time.†   (source)
  • Some years before, I had established a code which never varied.†   (source)
  • Certainly it is varied.†   (source)
  • The group consisted of about thirty available individuals, men and women of varying ages.†   (source)
  • On the counter were knives of varying sizes, each with its own use, and she watched as he etched the pumpkin's grin by carving away the outer shell only, forming what appeared to be lips and teeth.†   (source)
  • They were made in varying sizes, and the Prince's looked to be one of the largest, being wrist thick where it joined the handle.†   (source)
  • The blocks varied.†   (source)
  • Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock-German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese.†   (source)
  • As a Christian can be a Baptist, a Catholic, or a Lutheran, one Moslem's individual set of principles can vary widely from another's.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to be able to-- Oh my God, I need to-- I turn my head and hurl the unfortunately varied contents of my stomach onto Nell.†   (source)
  • My mom gave a detailed run-down of his varied bad habits.†   (source)
  • Around the room, the kids from the jazz ensemble and choir stood up f with varying degrees of willingness and shyness.†   (source)
  • All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world.†   (source)
  • The refugees were assimilating, to varying degrees, into American culture, and the natives—at least those who dared to interact meaningfully with the newcomers—were changing as well.†   (source)
  • They'd been arriving for years, bearing cash in varying amounts and a note with a single scrawled sentence.†   (source)
  • Owslas vary.†   (source)
  • He turned to the other boys, who were staring at me with varying degrees of interest and curiosity.†   (source)
  • Whatever else varied, the ending was the same, a finish line I could never reach, no matter how many miles I put behind me.†   (source)
  • They were bunched against the fence at the far side of the enclosure and they were a mixed lot, roans and duns and bays and a few paints and they were of varied size and conformation.†   (source)
  • It does so by artificially holding constant every variable except the two he wishes to focus on, and then showing how those two co-vary.†   (source)
  • The middle fingers of his left hand were stubs of varying lengths, the result of a bomb that had detonated too soon.†   (source)
  • This ritual, which I'd repeat hundreds of times in the next year, never varied.†   (source)
  • Needle kept a solemn look on his face at all times, seldom varying his expression.†   (source)
  • She has probably never done it before and she sees no reason to vary the format or terminate early or pan to another car.†   (source)
  • The risk to the mother varies with anatomy, and human pelvises are categorized by shapes that reflect alternate evolutionary compromises: gynecoid, android, anthropoid, and platypelloid.†   (source)
  • The location of each stalk varied, and we had to change our color schemes and textures to blend in.†   (source)
  • Though the answers to this question vary, they share a common result: solace.†   (source)
  • His accomplishments were vast and varied and included accompanying famed climber Nick Clinch on the first American ascent of Masherbrum in 1960.†   (source)
  • His classmates were less supportive; the ridicule was frequent and varied.†   (source)
  • He had had a varied career, from Japanese military schools to service in embassies in Canada and Washington to command of combat troops in China and Manchuria.†   (source)
  • I spend the rest of the afternoon involved in varying degrees of avoidance.†   (source)
  • Well, he varies the pressure: sometimes it's gentle and sometimes hard and then middley."†   (source)
  • The guests were not disappointed: they had a very pleasant feast, in fact an engrossing entertainment: rich, abundant, varied, and prolonged.†   (source)
  • They still appeared to be on open ocean, with no land in sight, but the gray morning light revealed a number of varying depths in the water below.†   (source)
  • And I did kill them, kills infinitely varied and great distances apart, as I walked with the vampire's sight and light movement through this teeming, burgeoning city, my victims surrounding me, seducing me, inviting me to their supper tables, their carriages, their brothels.†   (source)
  • He gave Blanca varying amounts of money to maintain the dark, drafty, rambling, almost empty house, but she never had enough to cover all her expenses.†   (source)
  • Score was never kept, and the number of players might vary from one to thirty-five.†   (source)
  • I feel varying levels of excitement, anticipation, animal lust.†   (source)
  • Franz said, Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design.†   (source)
  • She turned to the first page: Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?†   (source)
  • Some were quite thin, others fairly plump, their skin tone varied from dark to light.†   (source)
  • He said we use rats because we can vary the conditions,, He repeated a lot of things he'd already said in class, but he made a lot more sense this time.†   (source)
  • Jake, though, had a schedule that rarely varied.†   (source)
  • Though the facts never varied, he tried his best to make each retelling more dramatic than the last so that the story would never lose its luster.†   (source)
  • Green slime grew in the canals and joints between slabs, along the lower edges of building columns, on anything stationary the water reached, which varied with the season.†   (source)
  • I followed his eyes and was amazed to see the varied expressions on the patients' faces as they silently returned his gaze.†   (source)
  • Tastes vary.†   (source)
  • They will tell you that the depth of that meanness and hatred and ignorance varies from soul to soul, that white Southerners are not the same and symmetrical, like the boards in a white picket fence.†   (source)
  • Underneath, neatly layered, were thirty thousand francs, in varying denominations, roughly five thousand dollars, American.†   (source)
  • British, Spanish, French, and German coins were all still in use, along with the coins of the different states, their value varying appreciably from one state to another.†   (source)
  • As I had at George Viccars's bedside, and again at \Iem Gowdie's, I thought of all the varied skills that reposed in Maggie Cantwell.†   (source)
  • Mostly the messages expressed varying degrees of shock, outrage and commiseration.†   (source)
  • In the front of the room, Elleguá, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes.†   (source)
  • With varying backgrounds at BUD/S, guys were stronger in different areas.†   (source)
  • Huge papier-maché flora hung in varying shades of green splendor among sequin-dusted branches and rocks.†   (source)
  • I know little about your lives, but the pattern scarcely varies wherever a pocket of the older species is trying to pre-serve itself.†   (source)
  • Days were varied in the exercises he had us do.†   (source)
  • But some who'd been gifted with magic could recall the past with varying degrees of clarity.†   (source)
  • Meeting followed meeting, with Kennedy expected to be not just in attendance, but also knowledgeable about and decisive on each of the many varied subjects presented to him.†   (source)
  • Like their wings, their skin tones vary.†   (source)
  • The amounts of their subscriptions varied, from sums in five figures to six.†   (source)
  • A low growl came from one of them, long and full of varied sounds, as if it were trying to make words and meaning.†   (source)
  • Some are harmless, like the widespread conviction that Elizabethan, or even Shakespearean, English is still spoken in Appalachia, South Carolina, or Tidewater Virginia—the location varies—but we have a story to put that one to rest.†   (source)
  • Note how the leaves vary in shape on the same twig, some having no lobes, some two or three.†   (source)
  • But it varied.†   (source)
  • I shall fall upon my face and live the rest of my days, disgraced and odd, in a hermitage in the south of England, accompanied by fourteen cats of varying size and color.†   (source)
  • …vats.
    Down here the light
    storms through branches
    and boils the street.
    Villagers stand in the shadow and drink
    the fluid from a coned leaf.
    He works fast to reach his quota
    before the maniac monsoon.
    The shape of knife and pot
    do not vary from r8th Century museum prints.
    In the village,
    a woman shuffles rice in a cane mat.
    Grit and husk separate
    are thrown to the sun.
    From his darkness among high flowers
    to this room contained by mud walls
    everything that is important…†   (source)
  • It had already instigated debates nationwide of varying intensity on slavery.†   (source)
  • But in the essential outlines of what constitutes human decency, we vary amazingly little.†   (source)
  • Steadily the other dishes were brought in, a half dozen or so of them, one varied and progressive course.†   (source)
  • The other wounded kids are in varying conditions, but they say most are out of critical danger by now.†   (source)
  • It cannot make a flourish, vary the thickness of a line, or tantalize the reader with a lapse into an indecipherable but lovely style.†   (source)
  • All these of course had to be climbed; they varied from two to five feet in height and were about a couple of yards thick.†   (source)
  • The yellow was like the Jerusalem flower, and the purple suggested motherwort, and the white pieces were like water lily, and the varying shades of green represented the leaves of all the plants, and the eternal green of the pine trees.†   (source)
  • The answer seemed to vary.†   (source)
  • In contrast to Egyptian costume, in which there was a distinct division in style between the sexes, the Greek costume during this same period did not vary between men and women.†   (source)
  • Because government protects different and unequal abilities to acquire property, the people end up owning properties of varying value and kind.†   (source)
  • The caravan's destination marked the only varying features in all the dale-ten small towns positioned around the three lakes of the region, under the shadow of the only mountain, Kelvin's Cairn.†   (source)
  • A vague charge such as impiety invited jurors to project their many and varied grievances against Socrates.†   (source)
  • My brothers and our friends had varying abilities when it came to football.†   (source)
  • The two dozen or so varied items could be had for the sum of three dollars.†   (source)
  • A voder is a little box which can buzz and hiss and has controls to vary these elements to match those patterns.†   (source)
  • Its size can vary considerably without causing any problems in the engine, and for that and other reasons, John says, its manufacture requires nothing like the precision needed for making a fuel injector, so it doesn't need to be made on the most expensive machinery by the most highly skilled workers.†   (source)
  • His answers never varied.†   (source)
  • So you have dust-covered rocks of varying size which then ground together, producing more dust and fusing together into the asteroids we're looking at.†   (source)
  • This was a matter of some moment, since I knew from my extensive reading on the subject that the number of individuals in a wolf pack can vary from four to forty.†   (source)
  • The only decent building on the place was surrounded by tire ruts and pickup trucks in varying states of repair.†   (source)
  • When Mark stopped to ask how things were, the reply never varied, "Calamitous," and when Calamity Bill asked if he might come aboard, Mark's reply never varied either, "Yes, if you take off your cork boots."†   (source)
  • PLAYER: It never varies-we aim at the point where everyone who is marked for death dies.†   (source)
  • It was delicate, varied, and wonderful.†   (source)
  • The objcctions and policies of these groups varied enormously: some took the religious viewpoint, while others were merely expressing a sense of inferiority.†   (source)
  • She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.†   (source)
  • So during those months my evening schedule rarely varied.†   (source)
  • Consider then the small, unnoticed turning of the steering wheel, perhaps the exertion of only one pound for each motion, the varying pressure of foot on accelerator, not more than half a pound perhaps but an enormous total over a period of six hours.†   (source)
  • Its formation was varied: patches of sand, outcrops of rock, dried-up watercourses, salt-pans, faults, and frequent belts of vegetation.†   (source)
  • They were all in varying ways like Ferdinand, and they were often as young as Ferdinand.†   (source)
  • He told her that he was twenty-eight years old and had lived a varied life.†   (source)
  • It was discovered that it is easier to hold a number of consistently strong drinks than ones of varying strength.†   (source)
  • The noise of each locust is pitched in some classic locust range out of which none of them varies more than two full tones: and yet you seem to hear each locust discrete from all the rest, and there is a long, slow, pulse in their noise, like the scarcely defined arch of a long and high set bridge.†   (source)
  • I think it varies with the individual.†   (source)
  • I think it cost him a good deal to say what he did, and he never varied his attitude once.†   (source)
  • Their descriptions had been exact, complete, and wildly varying, and he took them for inventions and believed that like all the worldly things that came out of Natchez, they would be disposed of and shamed by any man's excursion into the reality of Nature.†   (source)
  • All Espers are accustomed to using mind-blocks of varying effectiveness depending on their rating.†   (source)
  • I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.   (source)
    varied = differing
  • It was in sufficient proximity to bring the whole sermon to her ears, in the shape of an indistinct but varied murmur and flow of the minister's very peculiar voice.   (source)
  • Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.   (source)
    varied = differing (having a variety)
  • It is that of the Collector, our gallant old General, who, after his brilliant military service, subsequently to which he had ruled over a wild Western territory, had come hither, twenty years before, to spend the decline of his varied and honourable life.   (source)
    varied = differing
  • On this eventful day, moreover, there was a certain singular inquietude and excitement in her mood, resembling nothing so much as the shimmer of a diamond, that sparkles and flashes with the varied throbbings of the breast on which it is displayed.   (source)
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