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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Of other whole lengths, but subordinately executed, you should notice one of Christine, Duchesse de Savoie, daughter of Henry II. and Catherine de Medicis; very curious, and in perfect preservation.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Combined with the primary blue, yellow furnishes all the variety of the secondary green, as well as, subordinately, the tertiaries russet and olive.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

In the first case the holder's pleasure is in his possessions, and in his money subordinately, as the means of bettering or adding to them.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

In the first case, the holder's pleasure is in his possessions, and in his money subordinately, as the means of bettering or adding to them.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John