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Sentences ending with larger

Also, the edition would be larger. [5]
In the gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. [5]
A man may well pawn his last doublet, if he may thereby gain a larger. [10]
But if it was threatened by any other influence, would not all men say that the best thing that could be done, if we could not or ought not to destroy it, would be at least to keep it from growing any larger? [7]
Do you not see how they are growing larger? [10]
Under the spell of that music his body seemed to grow larger. [11]
As the various mental faculties gradually developed themselves the brain would almost certainly become larger. [1]
He came at last to a house unlike the others, in that it was of stone and larger. [11]
Awful, yes, so it was, but not dreadful any more, because you could see it was a noble face, and kind of sad, and not thinking about you, but about other things and larger. [5]
They insist that it should, as far as may be, be treated as a wrong; and one of the methods of treating it as a wrong is to make provision that it shall grow no larger. [7]

Sentences containing larger two or more times

These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
Yes, the world was larger, larger, by one, and it would seem large--her image came to him distinctly--if she were the only one. [4]
The larger the shark the larger the bounty, and some of the sharks are twenty feet long. [5]
At the corner of West Street was gathering a crowd that each moment grew larger and larger, despite the efforts of the police to disperse it. [9]
Why, it was no larger than an American village of four thousand inhabitants, and no larger than an ordinary Syrian city of thirty thousand. [5]
But desire persecuted me every day and all day long; so, within the week I found myself hunting for larger cigars than I had been used to smoke; then larger ones still, and still larger ones. [5]
The coughing grew louder and louder, the glaring eye grew larger and still larger, glared wilder and still wilder. [5]
It is growing larger and larger, building up new countries with a rapidity never before seen in the history of the world. [7]
There was one event in his life, and his personality in it looms larger and larger as he recedes from it. [4]
There was an entire absence, of braggadocio in Big Tom's talk, but somehow, as he went on, his backwoods figure loomed larger and larger in our imagination, and he seemed strangely familiar. [4]

More example sentences with the word larger in them

Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. [5]
Such well-endowed pairs would commonly rear a larger number of offspring than the less favoured. [1]
You will not wonder that I address myself chiefly to those who are just leaving academic life for the sterner struggle and the larger tasks of matured and instructed manhood. [3]
A very lovely woman, dressed like a queen, lay on silken cushions in the middle of the vessel; by her side sat a man of larger stature than that of ordinary mortals. [10]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
A new species, with a still larger neck-appendage (C. penduliger), has lately been discovered, see 'Ibis,' vol. [1]
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
But her mind, which was, after all, vastly larger in proportion than the body enshrining it, felt suddenly that both were lost in a universe. [11]
With Grenoble obdurate, what would become of the larger ambitions of Hugh Chiltern? [9]
Many similar caves were to be found in the holy Fountain, and other anchorites had taken possession of the larger ones among them. [10]
Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]
For this purpose we placed Cleopatra in the centre of a larger group of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed in the various relations of life. [10]
The first thing we did on the day of our arrival was to take a hansom and drive over to Chelsea, to look at the place where Carlyle passed the larger part of his life. [6]
In the same way the best of the statues were gone, with which a few centuries previously the art-loving Lagides had decorated this residence--besides which they had another, still larger, on the Bruchiom. [10]
The great hills waved into each other like a vast violet sea, and, in turn, the tiny earth-waves on each separate hill swelled into the larger harmony. [11]
The last blast was peculiarly strong one, and after the small rubbish was done raining around us and we were just going to shake hands over our deliverance, a later and larger stone came down amongst our little group of pedestrians and wrecked an umbrella. [5]
The larger bell was muffled and the little bells on the harness stuffed with paper. [2]
Mr. Motley's case was a striking illustration that the renal disease of so-called Bright's disease may supervene as part and parcel of a larger and antecedent change in the blood-vessels in other parts than the kidney. [6]
I was also warmly attached to the enthusiastic Hubotter, who, under the name of "Otter," afterwards became the ornament of many of the larger German theatres. [10]
While we were walking over it, along with a party of horsemen, I noticed that even the larger raindrops made it shake. [5]
These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie. [5]
I seek in vain for words to express the exhilarating effect of that briny coolness on my imagination, and of the visions it summoned up of the newer, larger life into which I had marvellously been transported. [9]
He straightened himself up, as he spoke, standing on the top round of his high chair, I suppose, and so presented the larger part of his little figure to the view of the boarders. [6]
Well, I have tried before perhaps fifty audiences, some larger and some smaller than this, to find one such Democrat, and never yet have I found one who said I did not place him right in that. [7]
They had stood together on the heights of the larger view, whence the whole of the battle-line lay disclosed. [9]
Pleasant it is to think that the retreating host of books is to give place to a still larger army of volumes, which have seen service under the eye of a great commander. [6]
The nearest land, to the northwest, is the larger island of Ischia, distant nearly as far as Naples; yet Capri has the effect of being anchored off the bay to guard the entrance. [4]
Then Polykarp began to speak and declared that the granite of the Holy Mountain was finer in color and in larger blocks than that from Syene. [10]
I don't like to say it,--he continued,--but poets commonly have no larger stock of tunes than hand-organs; and when you hear them piping up under your window, you know pretty well what to expect. [6]
His figure seemed to grow larger in the mist, and the grey haze gave his hair a frosty coating, so that age and youth seemed strangely mingled in him. [11]
He was prepared to find it larger than his unstudied glances had made it appear; for more than a casual idea of dimensions and a hasty conception of oval shape and singular beauty he had not had time. [13]
Oxbow Village seemed to be running over with its one extra young man,--as may be seen sometimes in larger villages, and even in cities of moderate dimensions. [6]
Guida, so Detricand thought, might break her heart and live on; this woman would break her heart and die: the one would grow larger through suffering, the other shrink to a numb coldness. [11]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836, when you ran against May. [7]
In this respect they differ remarkably from the tail-feathers of Polyplectron, which in most of the species are ornamented with larger ocelli than those on the tail-coverts. [1]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined. [2]
Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
What chiefly struck them was the larger number of dusky faces, and the fanciful garb of the Magians. [10]
It spread over the width of East Street, growing larger every minute, until presently she was hemmed in. [9]
Behind him was the sun, against which he was abruptly defined, looking larger than usual. [11]
I then placed the stuffed specimen on the ground in one of the larger compartments. [1]
Take pains over the smaller cases, and the larger cases will come of themselves, eh? [9]
Presently, however, because the screws were larger than the old ones, it became much harder; the task called forth more strength, and drove all thought of being seen out of her mind for a space. [11]
In those days the school stood upon the Stadt House hill near School Street, not having moved to its present larger quarters. [9]
The cage in the room above, a little larger, had for tenant a person who was jailed for some misunderstanding about an account, and who was probably innocent --from the jailer's statement. [4]
At that time the privateers, with the larger inducements of profit they offered, were getting all the best seamen. [9]
At eight o'clock, the priests were chanting vespers to a larger congregation than many churches have on Sunday: their voices were rich and musical, and, joined with the organ notes, floated sweetly and impressively through the dim and vast interior. [4]
Near it, towards the north, in the open sea, was the anchorage of the larger sea-going ships and the various skiffs and boats of the fisher folk. [10]
I have seen the Mantis religiosa on a larger scale than this, now and then. [6]
All at once the lights seemed to grow larger, and from the garden of Brinkwort's house came the sharp voice of a soldier saying: "Halt! [11]
He must take the larger view. [9]
Behind Arsinoe, in the larger circular rows, sat the parents and husbands of the performers, among whom Keraunus, in his saffron robe, had taken a place, besides a considerable number of sight-loving matrons and older citizens who had accepted Plutarch's invitation. [10]
Between two of the larger buildings was wedged a room dedicated to the worship of Bacchus, to-day like a narrow river-gorge at flood time jammed with tree-trunks--some of them, let us say, water-logged--and all grinding together with an intolerable noise like a battle. [9]
In one corner, the hottest that the day saw, Rudyard and Barry Whalen and a scattered handful of men threw themselves upon a greatly larger number of the enemy. [11]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
I got $100 the first time I ever talked there and now they have a much larger hall. [5]
It was he, the fanatic, who saw things in the larger scale! [9]
Unless it is the desire and willingness to strive for a larger interest than the individual interest, work and suffer for others? [9]
Those who remember the Dartmouth College of that day cannot help smiling at the thought of the contrast in the way of thinking between the speaker and the larger part, or at least the older part, of his audience. [6]
Scattering money among the crowd, and giving some silver to the lads, Valmond stood looking at the bonfire for a moment, and then, pointing to it dramatically, said: "My friends, my brothers, Frenchmen, we will light larger fires than these. [11]
A portion of the crowd streamed after the strangers, but the larger number remained at their places, knowing that many a new and wonderful sight yet awaited them. [10]
The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]
My authorities make the British Empire not much short of a fourth larger than the Russian Empire. [5]
The care of the body is the first thought with a great many,--in fact, with the larger part of the world. [6]
We have seen that, according to Lartet, existing mammals belonging to several orders have larger brains than their ancient tertiary prototypes. [1]
It is plain that this room was once larger than it is now, and that the wall at this end was built in some bygone time to make and fence off a narrow room there. [5]
It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; but it is truer still that it has perils, events which try the soul as it is never tried in the smaller life--unless, indeed, the soul be that of the Epicurean. [11]
It is asserted that the hands of English labourers are at birth larger than those of the gentry. [1]
Perhaps it was that she knew in the bottom of her heart that she had been given a spirit and intelligence to cope with a larger life than that of Coniston. [9]
One stretch of that platform, two hundred feet long, is composed of blocks of stone as large, and some of them larger, than a street-car. [5]
I appeal to that larger and more solemn public, who know how to look with tender humility at faults and errors; how to admire generously extraordinary genius, and how to reverence with warm, full hearts all noble virtue. [14]
The queer earthquake--episodes that formed the staple of San Francisco gossip for the next week would fill a much larger book than this, and so I will diverge from the subject. [5]
Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
The slight wind that blew spread the topmost crest of flame into strands of ruddy hair, and, looking at it, Jen saw herself rocked to and fro by tumultuous emotions, yet fuller of strength and larger of life than ever she had been. [11]
I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself. [7]
It was larger than some in the same block, but the next neighborhood of a huge apartment-house dwarfed it again. [8]
It was larger than I had thought, four hundred thousand dollars, shrewdly invested, for the most part, in city real estate. [9]
The mouth, larger than her mother's, had full lips, the upper one short, and admirable curves, strong in repose, but fascinating when she smiled. [4]
Is it anything strange that the larger and more powerful organism should diffuse a consciousness of its presence to some distance as well as the slighter and feebler one? [6]
This was a strange animal, no larger than a calf, as thin as a goat, and in some places woolly, in others as bare as a scraped poodle. [10]
Her drooping head straightened, and the large eyes, larger now and darker, met Venters's with a clear, steadfast gaze in which he read truth. [13]
But it grew steadily larger, and when about three miles on our port bow I saw that the ship was a brigantine. [9]
There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. [5]
The cell was somewhat larger than those in the men's department, and might be eight feet by ten square, perhaps a little longer. [5]
He answered in some embarrassment, and without looking at the old lady; "It is because I have need of a larger quantity of the elixir. [10]
She was so small (though she was larger than the majority of the inter-island coasters) that when I stood on her deck I felt but little smaller than the Colossus of Rhodes must have felt when he had a man-of-war under him. [5]
It was a sketch, or rather a study for a larger picture, but it betrayed the hand of a master. [6]
Only Malasha, Andrew's six-year-old granddaughter whom his Serene Highness had petted and to whom he had given a lump of sugar while drinking his tea, remained on the top of the brick oven in the larger room. [2]
On the farther side of the river lay peaceful areas of meadow and corn land, and low-roofed, hovering farm-houses, with one larger than the rest, having a wind-mill and a flag-staff. [11]
In the few short reviews that dealt seriously with his work, he was able, when the excitement of seeing himself discussed had subsided, to read between the lines why The Puritan Nun had failed to make a larger appeal. [4]
A tall, broad-shouldered sergeant belonging to the escort had just purchased--for the larger part of the zecchins won as his share of the booty in the Italian war--the indulgence which he thought would secure him from the tortures of the fire of purgatory. [10]
Under date of September 7th he says that the Council demanded a larger allowance for themselves and for some of the sick, their favorites, which he declined to give without their warrants as councilors. [4]
The artist that sent this unframed picture to be hung in a corner of the literary gallery was equal to larger tasks. [6]
All his own schemes took larger shape and more misty and majestic proportions; and in this congenial air, the Colonel seemed even to himself to expand into something large and mysterious. [5]
A few lateen sails moved like pale, gigantic birds over the dark waters; but now from the north--and from the city--a larger mass came towards the palm-grove with bright, gleaming eyes of light. [10]
The sloop, they said, had six guns and a crew of twenty men; but the schooner, which was much larger, had no arms save muskets, and a crew and guard of thirty men. [11]
The larger the river the more streams flow into it. [6]
The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. [5]

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