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Sentences starting with greater

Greater men than you--the two Aurelians--will guide it. [10]
Greater power and more mighty mediation are needed to save and deliver me, and behold, my Margery, meseems--hear me Margery--meseems a special ruling of Heaven hath sent. [10]
Greater liberty in hunting was demanded. [10]

Sentences ending with greater

If a storm was on, the joy was the greater. [11]
But for the trouble in her throat, Barbara would have been physically as well as ever; her mental suffering was never greater. [10]
It was said to have a bad effect after long and frequent use, and she had often checked the Mukaukas in taking it too freely; but could her sufferings be greater? [10]
The increase of those other things which men deem desirable has been even greater. [7]
In spite of the slight antagonism and envy of which I was conscious,--that she was thus superbly in command of the situation, that she had developed her pinions and was thus splendidly able to use them,--my admiration for her had never been greater. [9]
When you see the good Pere Corraine say to him--but no, it is no matter--there is One greater! [11]
This Republic is the chosen home of minorities, of the less power in the presence of the greater. [3]
She--Cleopatra would do something still greater. [10]
The Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, the mildness of his features, was all the greater. [2]
Of course the outlay was much greater. [8]

Short sentences using greater

Man is greater than Nature. [4]
I've never had a greater. [11]

Sentences containing greater two or more times

But they began to notice that some streets were quiet and clean, and, though never so quiet and clean as Boston streets, that they wore an air of encouraging reform, and suggested a future of greater and greater domesticity. [8]
It is conceivable that two hermaphrodites, attracted by each other's greater beauty, might unite and leave offspring which would inherit their parents' greater beauty. [1]
Your acquaintance with some of the accessory branches is probably greater now than it will be in a year from now,--much greater than it will by ten years from now. [3]
The greater death-rate of infants in the poorest classes is also very important; as well as the greater mortality, from various diseases, of the inhabitants of crowded and miserable houses, at all ages. [1]
Whilst he mused, his appreciation of Hendon's magnanimous conduct grew to greater and still greater dimensions in his mind, and so also did his gratefulness for it. [5]
If the former had greater force opposed to them, they also had greater force with which to meet it. [7]
Only she, Janet, had been the greater fool of the two, the greater dupe because she had allowed herself to dream, to believe that what she had done had been for love, for light! [9]
Upon Iberville, the greater of the two, it had a greater effect. [11]
One class of friends believe in greater severity and another in greater leniency in regard to arrests, banishments, and assessments. [7]
They had time for a great deal of joking at the office during the season of leisure which penetrates in August to the very heart of business, and they all got on terms of greater intimacy if not greater friendliness than before. [8]

More example sentences with the word greater in them

He is deceiving you now in small things, great Caesar, and later he will deceive you in greater ones. [10]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
And for ten years Bishop Dyer had been the closest friend and counselor of her father, and for the greater part of that period her own friend and Scriptural teacher. [13]
On it was written a sorrow for me greater than my own sorrow. [9]
The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
If my opinion's worth anything, I should not hesitate to declare that we're on the threshold of a greater religious era than the world has ever seen. [9]
The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
He kept his word to you--at the risk of his life, and, as his son, I take a greater pride in him to-day than I ever have before. [9]
I may say, without indiscretion, that I intend from now on to take even a greater interest in public affairs. [9]
The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
I say this with the greater freedom, because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal. [7]
Agreements entered into with the government by union leaders will not hold him if at any time he fails to be satisfied that the present world conflict will not result in a greater social justice. [9]
And I know with still greater certainty that once--you hear me--once, he succeeded in bending the will of these rulers of his to his own. [10]
Melissa had confessed with far greater warmth what her feelings had been after she had sacrificed for the suffering sinner. [10]
Her face flushed with a resentment far greater than that of Rudyard's, and it was heightened by a humiliation which overwhelmed her. [11]
We are so willing to be lenient to the unfortunate, for a Greater than we has visited them with sorrow such as man could not inflict. [10]
I hope it will be understood that it is from no disinclination to oblige anybody that I do not address you at greater length. [7]
Even Joseph Goodman, who had a fine literary perception and a deep knowledge of men, intimately associated with Mark Twain as he was, received at this time no hint of his greater powers. [5]
Once in a while one meets with a single soul greater than all the living pageant which passes before it. [6]
With those animals which were benefited by living in close association, the individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers, whilst those that cared least for their comrades, and lived solitary, would perish in greater numbers. [1]
Hence the individuals which performed them best, would tend to survive in greater numbers. [1]
The common distress, which afflicted them and so many starving people, oppressed his soul with a thousand-fold greater power. [10]
He was asked whether Orlando had shown the greater agitation at the Cross Trails or in the town when he threatened Mazarine. [11]
Amasis is old; when Psamtik comes to the throne we shall have infinitely greater difficulties to contend with than heretofore. [10]
Nevertheless I remembered well that her little shop, which was no greater than a fair-sized closet, had ever been filled with buyers when we had stolen in, against all commands, to buy a few dried figs. [10]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
From our seats we could see the greater part of the assembly,--not quite all, however of the pupils. [6]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
You did wrong, Wawerl, certainly, but my guilt is the greater, and we were both punished--oh, how sorely! [10]
Yet, when one was used to him and to them, their potency seemed greater than polished speech and ordinary phrase. [11]
And yet--so I was told afterwards--my delivery was not mechanical, and I actually achieved more emphasis, gave a greater impression of conviction than at any time since the night I had lost my control and violently denounced the reformers. [9]
And now she was to behold a palace even greater than these,--and the house where the President himself dwelt. [9]
She said she was thankful that I had what would save me from drudgery, and that some other time I should tell her about it.--I never made a greater failure in an attempt to produce a sensation. [6]
Never, I believe, was medicine swallowed with a greater willingness. [9]
The beauty that was in her face was in her letter in even a greater degree. [11]
The former excitement was great--this one was greater still. [5]
But my strength was greater than hers, indeed full great for a maid; yet my heart told me that in her case my will would have been the same, so I made no more resistance but yielded up the letter. [10]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
And if it was dark and rather dull, we used to say, what did it matter to us, for it only made us remember our last walk with greater pleasure, and look forward to our next one. [12]
This day I was certain I had the greater number of birds in my wallet, and I walked in good heart toward the end of the path. [10]
No doubt there was a wrong there, an inconsistency and an injustice that he felt keenly; but it could not be reached in his way without greater wrong. [8]
If Mrs. Scherer was a surprise to us, her husband was a still greater one; and I had difficulty in recognizing the Adolf Scherer who came to our dinner party as the personage of the business world before whom lesser men were wont to cringe. [9]
He was English--that was a misfortune; he was an actor--that was a greater misfortune, for it suggested vagabondage of morals as well as of profession; and he was a Protestant, which was the greatest misfortune of all. [11]
Our ascent itself was a great achievement, but this contribution to science was an inconceivably greater matter. [5]
He had long wanted to do a statue of the ill-fated Monmouth, and another greater than that. [11]
Within its stern walls Nathaniel Durrett had made a model universe of his own, such as the Deity of the Westminster Confession had no doubt meant his greater one to be if man had not rebelled and foiled him.... [9]
The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
The dishes were vicarious, a substitute for that greater destiny out of which Hannah had been cheated by fate. [9]
The assets were vastly greater than the liabilities. [4]
The common people usually shirked the trouble of filtering it, and it was among them that the greater number died of a mortal and infectious pestilence, till then unknown. [10]
Here he was urged to still greater haste by another impatient "Go on! [10]
She had built up, after each invasion, her defences more carefully and solidly than before, only to be again astonished and dismayed by the next onslaught, until at length the question had become insistent--the question of an alliance for purposes of greater security. [9]
He sat still under an anger greater than his own, for there was in it that fanaticism which only the love or hate of a woman could breed in a man's mind. [11]
The young Frau Ueberhell awaited with even greater curiosity than her husband, the disclosure of the contents of the sealed package which Herr Winckler had in charge for his ward. [10]
And no greater tribute can be paid to Janet Bumpus than that it pleased her, struck and set exquisitely vibrating within her responsive chords. [9]
The perfection of travel is ten miles an hour, on top of a stagecoach; it is greater speed than forty by rail. [4]
He came straight towards the bear, then suddenly made a swift movement to the left, trusting to his greater quickness of movement. [11]
So in Keilhau, too, woman was to pave the way to greater refinement. [10]
But he felt too that she needed greater wisdom, and he was ready to give it--a friendly characteristic of the big open spaces "where life is so simple and so large. [11]
Pessimism is perhaps too strong a word, and takes no account of the continued unimpaired morale and determination of the greater part of the British and French peoples. [9]
But the Professor, to whom this information was communicated, doubted whether here it was not a greater distinction to be the daughter of the owner of this region than to be connected with a President of the United States. [4]
He vainly strove to understand the impossibility of this division of his own being, but the more eagerly he did so the greater became his bewilderment. [10]
A greater contrast to the Vicomte than Mr. Howard Spence would have been difficult to find. [9]
Perhaps there come to the disordered mind flashes of insight, illuminations and divinations, greater than are given to the sane, for she suddenly said in a whisper, touching me with a nervous finger, "I will go and tell her where to hide. [11]
When he tried to rouse him and spur him to greater energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. [10]
She then began to review the past; her own long unhappiness, Robert's silence, her uncertainty as to his fate, and the after hopelessness, made greater by Ian's conduct. [11]
The exploit seemed to please the Colonel, who, after he likewise had done the liquor justice, screwed on the lid with ceremony, offered Stephen his arm with still greater ceremony, and they walked off down the street together. [9]
My uncle's manner to me was now of studied kindness, and he was at greater pains than before to give me no excuse for offence. [9]
If he says to me here that he does not hold the rule to be good, one way or the other, I do not comprehend how he could answer me more fully if he answered me at greater length. [7]
He was trying to make for himself a future which might mean the control of a greater colony even. [11]
It is enough to look out upon the magnificent night; the moon is now high, and swinging clear and distant; the air has grown chilly; the stars cannot be eclipsed by the greater light, but glow with a chastened fervor. [4]
From Land's End to John O' Groat's is a long tramp, but that from Montreal to Hudson's Bay is far longer, and yet many have made it; more, however, in the days of which we are writing than now, and with greater hardships also then. [11]
The thought came to him: was he indeed greater, more vital than the religion he professed? [9]
Seubolt, however, seemed to have no greater desire than to be heard by as many people as possible. [10]
I had expected to find the bustle on shore greater, but what a throng of ships and boats, masts and smoke-stacks I saw! [10]
I should expect to find faith in humanity greater and not less than it is now, and I should not expect to find that Mr. Froude's mournful expectation had been realized, and that the belief in a life beyond the grave had been withdrawn. [4]
Somehow, they seemed to feel, although no words expressed the thought, that for an instant they were in the presence of a wisdom greater than any wisdom of a man's smoking-room. [11]
It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
It was distinction to be loved by such a man; but it was a much greater distinction to be hated by him, because he loved scores of people; but he didn't sit up nights to hate anybody but me. [5]
If Mary lives to be a mother, you will then see a greater difference. [14]
Volday turned out to be a hypocrite, and a greater rascal than the others. [4]
We must shine to a few brothers, as palms or pines or roses among common weeds, not from greater absolute value, but from a more convenient nature. [6]
Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura's life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. [5]
The General has three boats chartered, with flats in tow, but the demand for these to tow out stock is greater than they can meet with promptness. [5]
I like to think that this thing which has come to us is deeper, greater than we are. [11]
There are some things that may not be discussed directly, and the conduct of life at a modern university--which is a reflection of life in the greater world--is one of these. [9]
Just to empty themselves into the greater waters, there to be lost? [11]
Presently they found themselves among the crowd in Washington Street, where Ephraim confessed the trepidation which he felt over the coming supper party: a trepidation greater, so he declared many times, than he had ever experienced before any of his battles in the war. [9]
An impulse made them pause and turn, and they stood looking back together at the great house which loomed the greater in the thickening darkness, its windows edged with glow. [9]
The number of them might be greater, but "'t is enough, 't will serve," in Mercutio's modest phrase, so far as frequency is concerned. [3]
I parted from them at the door of the hotel, made my way down to Roscoe's house at the ravine, and busied myself for the greater part of the day in writing letters, and reading on the coping. [11]
Every trip into the woodlands of the Spree offered an abundance of beautiful and pleasurable experiences, but I remember with still greater enjoyment my leafy nooks on the river-bank. [10]
Looking out of the window now into the quiet night, the watch-fires dotting the plain had a fascination for her greater than the wonder of the southern sky and its plaque of indigo sprinkled with silver dust and diamonds. [11]
I have neither the voice nor the strength to address you at any greater length. [7]
As I read the times of Elizabeth, there was then greater prosperity and enjoyment of life among the common people than fifty or a hundred years later. [4]
The shortness of the time at their disposal was a still greater source of anxiety, and to this was added the information that one hundred and twenty thousand workmen had perished during the restoration of the canal which Pharaoh Necho nearly completed. [10]
To recur to the Texas question, I understand the Liberty men to have viewed annexation as a much greater evil than ever I did; and I would like to convince you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. [7]

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