1 And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures.
2 I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt an uneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to the occasion.
3 He had contented himself with putting a flat roof on the remaining first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child's playhouse built of shoe boxes.
4 I hated them from the first, and shut myself away from everyone in timid, wounded and disproportionate pride.
5 Her Armand was disproportionately young and slight, a handsome youth, perplexed in the extreme.
6 He is small for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 7 His memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and perturbed pool.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED