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Sentences starting with less

Less than a week ago you notified us that reinforcements were leaving Richmond to come in front of us. [7]
Less care, I thought, had been given in the collection to "sets" of "standards" than to those that are rare, or for some reason, either from distinguished ownership or autograph notes, have a peculiar value. [4]
Less than this our fathers could not do, and more they would not do. [7]
Less felicitous was his experience with a certain ancilla culinaria virgo,--which I am afraid would in those days have been translated kitchen-wench, instead of lady of the culinary department,--who turned him off after she had got tired of him, and called in another practitioner. [3]
Less than ever can I taste or know pleasure till this work is wound up. [14]
Less money might be risked in experiments upon the public, and more might be made by distributing good literature. [4]
Less vanity might be gratified. [4]

Sentences ending with less

Justice, strict justice, you shall certainly have,--neither more nor less. [6]
And he had with him a strange, Scotch sea-captain, who had rescued him from pirates, bless you, no less. [9]
He said he wished the Trianon to be perfection--nothing less. [5]
Rouge et noire--it was no more, no less. [11]
Since Mr. Hopper was from Willesden and knew the Salters, she would be willing to take him for less. [9]
Even when the violence of these emotions had in some degree subsided, and he was beginning to grow more calm, there came into his mind a new thought, the anguish of which was scarcely less. [12]
Flora Temple has trotted close down to 2.20; and Ethan Allen in 2.25, or less. [6]
It seemed plain to me now, that with her training, those inherited prisoners were merely property--nothing more, nothing less. [5]
Faith, a hundred times less! [11]
It went abroad through the city that Pango Dooni and Cumner paid great homage to the dead Dakoon, and the dread of the hillsmen grew less. [11]

Short sentences using less

Sixty year, more or less! [6]
But others were less wise. [5]
Talk of things less trying. [5]
M-a-r-k three... Quarter less three!... [5]
The rain seems less heavy. [2]
Here they wander less extensively. [5]
The painter is less dangerous. [10]
Her trembling presently grew less. [11]
Is it less fertile? [7]
Saladin had less, by fifteen. [5]

Sentences containing less two or more times

After the occurrence with the Arab, the other event was certainly much less prominent, and here, after many years, I can see that the act was less in her than it would have been in others. [11]
But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference. [6]
As the days went on, and the weeks, he was less and less at home, and in a worse humor--that is, at home. [4]
And when he was out of sight his comrades let fly their laughter in a storm of happy satisfaction--and then quieted down, and were less happy, less satisfied. [5]
Every day he was less and less in love with the law as it was practiced, and, courting reputation, he would much rather be a great author than a great lawyer. [4]
A man less warm-hearted and more selfish, in his circumstances, would have settled down to a life of more ease and less responsibility. [4]
He had been very much in the city in former years, but he came less and less now, not because it was less beautiful or attractive in a way, but because it had lost for him a certain charm it once had. [4]
Henderson himself was under less illusion; the world was about what he had taken it for, only a little worse--more gullible, and with less principle. [4]
He had come to that age when the mind is surprised to find that the things that once charmed charm less, and the things once hated are less acutely repulsive. [11]
It is safe to say that Lafarge was a less sincere if not a less blameless customs officer from this time forth. [11]

More example sentences with the word less in them

Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
But, as for your advice--Holy Virgin!--I know now less than ever how I am to fare; but I shall soon learn. [10]
Never, I assure you, have I had less desire for finery. [9]
Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
Out of it you must trust her, I am afraid,--for she will not be followed round, and she is in less danger than you think. [6]
The less pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run. [3]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
Since two thousand years all these coasts have changed more or less, risen and sunk, and the temples and palaces of two civilizations have tumbled into the sea. [4]
In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less that those of 1863. [7]
I have not written less than 30 pages any day since I began. [5]
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]
Moreover, my conviction would probably deprive him for six whole afternoons of my company, on which he was more or less dependent. [9]
Howbeit, my cousin would not do the like service for the Knight of Welemisl, in whose mien and manners he put less trust, wherefore I became his surety, out of sheer pity and at Herdegen's prayer. [10]
As the phaeton would make the distance to the station in less time than the car, this seemed the sensible thing to do, and Denzil's spirits fell. [11]
Thereby one less would know her secret. [11]
Such well-endowed pairs would commonly rear a larger number of offspring than the less favoured. [1]
Nor were his worshipful father and his younger brethren one whit less dear to me. [10]
To govern the world one must have less need of sleep. [10]
He wrote the words L'Empereur Alexandre, La nation russe and added up their numbers, but the sums were either more or less than 666. [2]
The Queen, less woman now than Queen, enraged by the information got he knew not how, had come at once to punish the gross breach of her orders and a dark misconduct-so he thought. [11]
The danger from within is not less than from without. [4]
The gracious sentiment with which the Queen sought to express her sense of what Holland owed him would have been deeply felt even had her personal friendship been less dear to us all. [6]
Lord Delaware remained with the colony less than a year; his health failing, he went in pursuit of it, in March, 1611, to the West Indies. [4]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
The motion changed with it, became rougher, and the hoof-beats a fraction less frequent. [9]
She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
His eyes twinkled with a tipsy leer in his flushed face, and yet he was perfectly competent; and his instructions to the senate, though imperious indeed, were neither more nor less rational than in his soberest moods. [10]
He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. [5]
He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
I think you will find less than fifty. [7]
Perhaps all this will become less poignant in time. [14]
Petrus received his wife with no less gravity than was usual with him, but there was an arch sparkle in his half closed eyes as he asked: "You scarcely know what is going on, I suppose? [10]
The world is wide, and a cousin or two more or less can hardly be considered an essential of existence. [6]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]
So he, on whose faithful devotion she had built as on a rock, was no less self-seeking and fickle than other men. [10]
Every one with whom we talked, except the rider, had more or less the mineral fever. [4]
Or was the whole really so admirable that it would have seemed petty to find fault with the less successful details? [10]
The decorous families who were now allying themselves with St. John's did so at the expense of other churches either more radical or less fashionable. [9]
There were some who scattered as he drew near, and of the less timorous spirits that remained only a few raised dark, sullen glances to encounter his, which was unflinching, passionately contemptuous. [9]
But the man who had honoured her with his love was no less a personage than the Emperor Charles, and this circumstance only increased the sympathy which the sisters felt for their much-admired friend. [10]
So of those who deal with the palpable and often unmistakable facts of external nature; only in a less degree. [6]
With the others, who are less generous, it matters not. [9]
And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
This great marvel which we have just witnessed, fellow-savants (it almost takes my breath away), is nothing less than the transit of Venus! [5]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. [7]
Was it this which had been more or less vaguely working in his mind a little while before when she had noticed a change in him; or was it that he was disappointed that they were two and no more--always two, and no more? [11]
Besides the variations which can be grouped with more or less probability under the foregoing heads, there is a large class of variations which may be provisionally called spontaneous, for to our ignorance they appear to arise without any exciting cause. [1]
It mattered little whether most people were changed or not because one state of their minds could not be less or more interesting than another; but a change in Laura. [11]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
The members of what had once been an army--Napoleon himself and all his soldiers fled--without knowing whither, each concerned only to make his escape as quickly as possible from this position, of the hopelessness of which they were all more or less vaguely conscious. [2]
If all medicine were very costly, and the expense of it always came out of the physician's fee, it would really be a less objectionable arrangement than this other most pernicious one. [3]
If this assumption were true it would be none the less disagreeable to the new-comers. [4]
All of these were responding more or less sincerely to the cry of the people of Kentucky (every day more passionate) that something be done about Louisiana. [9]
But the Moslems were no less eager for the fray, and at the close of his council-of-war, and contrary to its decision, Kapudan Pacha sailed to meet the enemy. [10]
Justus Liebig's manners were no less attractive, but in him genuine amiability was united to the elegance of the man of the world who had long been one of the most distinguished scholars of his day. [10]
Not less peculiar were Mrs. Falchion's words to Hungerford the evening before, recorded in the last sentence of the preceding chapter. [11]
If only they were less honest in a world of rogues, poor moles! [11]
Though the streets were full, the town did not seem any less deserted; and the early marketers had only come to life for a day, revisiting the places that once they thronged. [4]
Kitty Tynan's eyes were fixed on him as though hypnotised, and the Young Doctor was scarcely less interested; while the widow knitted harder and faster than she had ever done, and she could knit very fast indeed. [11]
On land there were a thousand miles of open country, with woods and houses, caves and cliffs, to which men could flee for hiding; and the danger of rebellion was less dominant. [11]
In that wealthy, well-ordered house everything stood ready to hand; and in less than a quarter of an hour the tribune Nemesianus was informed that the chamber was ready for the reception of his brother. [10]
Indeed, as days, weeks and months went on, his position became less valuable to himself, and his financial affairs suffered from his own and his agent's bad management. [11]
So, in a week or less, Marion and Mrs. Townley were in Greyhope. [11]
I should think we might have less vulgar subjects to discuss. [10]
In its application we know there will be incidents temporarily painful; but, after all, those incidents will be fewer and less intense with than without the system. [7]
Far less did we feel that we were being educated according to any fixed method. [10]
I am afraid we do not always do justice to our country brethren, whose merits are less conspicuously exhibited than those of the great city physicians and surgeons, such especially as have charge of large hospitals. [3]
Don't you see, we could distribute these people around the earth in less time than it is going to take you to explain that we can't. [5]
Indeed, why should we be content with less than a royal duke? [11]
Her double meaning was, naturally, lost on Farrar, but he enjoyed the thing hugely, nevertheless, as more or less applicable to Mr. Allen. [9]
I thought it was time to put in a word; for I have lived in foreign parts, and am more or less cosmopolitan. [6]
The Indian's address was therefore more or less gratuitous, and he hastened to remark: "Thank you, Shangi; that's very good, and you've put it poetically. [11]
And if there was surging and wrath in her breast not less was there in mine. [10]
If the scheme was striking, and new to the world's experience, the situation was not less so. [5]
The young man was still less disposed to be vexed with Wolf for his delay when Barbara appeared in Ursel's room. [10]
The box she was seeking was among the last and, while handing it to Bias, she muttered: "Oh, yes, certainly--it does one good to destroy a foe, but no less to make her foe happy! [10]
The outer air was perhaps less charged with the unnatural, and with a glance towards the room where death was quartered, they left the hut. [11]
He, as judge, was no less averse to letting off the guilty than he was to punishing the innocent; so the enquiry must be allowed to proceed quietly. [10]
For Kutuzov this was mathematically clear, as it is that if when playing draughts I have one man less and go on exchanging, I shall certainly lose, and therefore should not exchange. [2]
Pretty Pierre's face was less pretty than usual; the cheeks were pallid, the eyes were hard and cold. [11]
The entrance there was less dangerous than that between the Pharos and the point of Lochias which led into the eastern landing-places. [10]
Her open rebellion was less annoying than Janet's silent reproach, but at least she had something to take hold of. [9]
To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]

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