Considering the extremely venomous nature of the snake and the large quantities of strychnine required in some of the previously reported cases of echis and bungarus bites, the quantity used seems disproportional, but this evidently is explained by the fact that only one of the fangs perforated deeply, and at the back of the foot, probably struck the bone before entering to its full length, the snake thus failing to impart the full quantity of venom at its disposal.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller
The p o s i t i v e contributors get a lot of friends and a disproportional amount of help from others.
"The Online World"
Odd de Presno
And ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportional to the capacity.
"The American Union Speaker"
John D. Philbrick