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In the old and well-established code of dueling, it is understood that the number of paces the offender and offended take before shooting should be in inverse proportion to the magnitude of the insult.† (source)
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Sure enough, their clothes were inverse colors.† (source)
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One story described it as the inverse of the sky—a huge, hollow, upside-down dome of rock.† (source)
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Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.† (source)
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And one way was being frightened of being far away from a place I was used to, and the other was being frightened of being near where Father lived, and they were in inverse proportion to one another, so that the total fear remained a constant as I got further away from home and further away from Father like this.... It takes 19 minutes for the bus to get to school from our house, but it took me 47 minutes to walk the same distance, so I was very tired when I got there and I hoped that I could stay at school for a little while and have some biscuits and some orange juice before I went to the train station.† (source)
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I'll admit, he has one of the best builds this side of the Mr. Olympia contest, but that body is in inverse proportion to his brain.† (source)
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The Count went for the quick kill, the inverse Bonetti.† (source)
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Only in this way can our basically two-party nation avoid the pitfalls of multiple splinter parties, whose purity and rigidity of principle, I might add—if I may suggest a sort of Gresham's Law of politics—increase inversely with the size of their membership.† (source)
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Surveying the room, Cedric decides to display his mastery and answers a question about inverse trigonometric functions.† (source)
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On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.† (source)
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Their English skills were in inverse proportion to their ages.† (source)
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But the strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence; and the present donkey proved the first-rate order of his intelligence by coming to a dead standstill just when the blows were thickest.† (source)
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Black birds pierce the sky like inverse stars.† (source)
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The feelings of husband and wife varied, in some measure, inversely with their positions.† (source)
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When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring, Quality itself.† (source)
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He went on, growing more and more relaxed, his ease the inverse function of their tightening stomachs.† (source)
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