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He also respires in like manner, inasmuch as thought and respiration act correspondently.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

Even the simple act of drinking pure water out of a part of its polished shell was esteemed a salutary remedial process, and was paid for at a correspondently extravagant price.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William

The following address was delivered at a social meeting of literary men in New York in 1874: When I was fourteen I was living with my parents, who were very poor—and correspondently honest.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark

Or thus, They have their termes subtended to the equall angles correspondently proportionall: And equall if the figures themselves be equall; H. This is a consectary out of the former definition.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

The luminaries of heaven are darkened, or fall, or are extinguished, while the earth, the sea and the rivers are correspondently affected.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David