Citations:proportions


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I strained my sight to discover what it could be and uttered a wild cry of ecstasy when I distinguished a sledge and the distorted proportions of a well-known form within.
 * Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe — gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was a strange figure — like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.