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Lesser grandeurs do not find us very impressible. [6]

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Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
He dressed well when in the city,--even elegantly,--he had many of the lesser social accomplishments, was a good dancer, and compared favorably in all such matters with the more dashing young fellows in society. [6]
Hour after hour we slopped along, by the roaring torrent, and under noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights. [5]
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]
It was good to hear them talk of George Frederic Cooke, of Kean, and the lesser stars of those earlier constellations. [6]
This never failed to draw a substantial "bill" from the wad which Jean Jacques always carried in his pocket-loose, not tied up in a leather roll, as so many lesser men freighted the burdens of their wealth. [11]
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 candles were then extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and he was told that he would now see the lesser light. [2]
This is partly the substance of what was said one winter evening before the wood fire in the library of a house in Brandon, one of the lesser New England cities. [4]
In weighty questions the stronger decides, but the lesser cares of life are left to her who is the greater in small things. [10]
Sonya, Dolokhov, and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree Natasha. [2]
So I use the lesser villain, and in truth the more powerful, for he stands higher at Versailles than any here. [11]
To one of the lesser theatres and heard a monologue by the elder Mathews, who died a year or two after this time. [6]
So it was that, for a time, Jean Jacques took the place of the Old Cure in the human side of the life of the district, though in a vastly lesser degree. [11]
But the plants that come up every year in the same place, like the Star-of-Bethlehems, of all the lesser objects, give me the liveliest home-feeling. [6]
The Man's eye, sweeping the world for a new plaything, had rested upon one which had excited the fancy of lesser adventurers, of one John Law, for instance. [9]
He made it sufficiently uncomfortable for the ambushed witnesses--to wit, Mordred, Agravaine, and twelve knights of lesser rank, for he killed every one of them but Mordred; but of course that couldn't straighten matters between Launcelot and the king, and didn't. [5]
Lest my parish should suppose we have forgotten graver matters in these lesser topics, I beg them to drop these trifles and read the following lesson for the day. [6]
He did not see the danger of rousing in the Queen the same unreasoning tenaciousness of will upon just such lesser things as might well be left to her advisers. [11]
Among the lesser regrets that mingle with graver sorrows for the friends of an earlier generation we have lost, are our omissions to ask them so many questions they could have answered easily enough, and would have been pleased to be asked. [6]
These authors write pictures and frame rhapsodies, and lesser men follow and see with the author's eyes instead of their own, and speak with his tongue. [5]
Were there but one little place where that Eden flower might bloom within your heart, you could not seek to ruin that love which lives in mine and fills it, conquering all the lesser part of me. [11]
It was because of this characteristic that he invested in numberless schemes of lesser importance, but no less disastrous in the end. [5]
The lesser kind of gentry, and many of the plainer folk of the village, half-pleased to find themselves passing beneath the stately portico of the ancient mansion-house, crowded in, until the ample rooms were overflowing. [6]
These lesser country-houses of genteel aspirations are much given to patent subterfuges of one kind and another to get heat without combustion. [6]
But these lesser nervous centres are to a large extent dominated by influences transmitted from certain groups of nerve-cells in the brain and its immediate dependencies. [6]
Then he advised me to read Bacon, study Kant, Plato, and the other ancient philosophers--Lotze, too, if I desired--and when I had them all by heart, take up the lesser lights, and even then be in no hurry to read Feuerbach and his wild theology. [10]
Didst thou not mark that he stayed his roaring when I did press hard over the lesser bowels? [3]
With a lesser man than Frontenac it might have ended badly. [11]
Nor were the lesser dynasties of the Delta allowed, according to the Stela of Pianchi, to cross the threshold of the Pharaohs because they were unclean and ate fish. [10]
One of these lesser centres is that over which my friend Mr. Haweis presides as spiritual director. [6]
Men have been killed for lesser wrongs, but the right to kill does not belong to you. [11]
They had been keeping things upon the surface, and, while it lasted, he seemed a lesser man than she had thought him these past years. [11]
Most of us have to pass through such ordeals before character and conviction receive their final bias; before human nature has its wild trouble, and then settles into "cold rock and quiet world;" which any lesser after-shocks may modify, but cannot radically change. [11]
I believe I have seen most of the greater and lesser wonders of the world, but I do not remember that any of them interested me so overwhelmingly as did that pair of gods. [5]
Jex and Fluke have returned to their iniquitous allegiance, with six or eight others of lesser calibre, and it is reported and believed that Tubbs and Huffy are ready to go back. [5]
Incidentally my father had condemned Cousin Robert's wholesale grocery business as a refuge of the lesser of intellect that could not achieve the professions,--an inference not calculated to stir my ambition and liking for it at the start. [9]
The great contractors had concluded their business with the state and railroad officials and with the lesser contractors, and departed for the East. [5]
It is the great central telegraphic station with which many lesser centres are in close relation, from which they receive, and to which they transmit, their messages. [6]
The reader who glances over these papers, and, finding them too full of small details and the lesser personal matters which belong naturally to private correspondences, turns impatiently from them, has my entire sympathy and good-will. [6]
It is the full-blown flower of that cultivated growth of which those lesser products are the buds. [6]
We cannot fight for these objects without attacking the one mother cause of all the progeny of lesser antagonisms. [6]
He had respect for the feelings of others, and where the Church was concerned this was mingled with a droll sort of pity, as of the greater for the lesser, the wise for the helpless. [11]
If they would follow him into one of the lesser apartments up stairs they would have an opportunity to do so. [6]
A much lesser fleet went forth from Venice late in the year and came to anchor there again, loaded with spices, in the month of March or not later than April. [10]
The list is familiar enough: the railroad, the ocean steamer, photography, the spectroscope, the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, anesthetics, electric illumination,--with such lesser wonders as the friction match, the sewing machine, and the bicycle. [6]
Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. [2]
A very little encouragement kept her from despondency, and brought back one of those overflows of gratitude which make one more ashamed of himself for being so overpaid than he would be for having committed any of the lesser sins. [6]
When Nature has done with it, and delivers it to us in its perfection, we forget all the lesser fruits which have gone before it. [6]
When the Old Cure was alive Jean Jacques was a lesser light, and he accepted his degree of illumination with content. [11]
The great poets build temples of song, and fill them with images and symbols which move us almost to adoration; the lesser minstrels fill a panel or gild a cornice here and there, and make our hearts glad with glimpses of beauty. [6]
How beautifully they bring the greater and lesser circles into connection with each other! [6]
To men like Berringer, Grierson and Tallant and our lesser great lights the banker was a semi-mythical figure, and many times on the day of my return I was stopped on the street to satisfy the curiosity of my friends as to my impressions. [9]
If he had been a lesser man than he is, he would have come to America when he was freed from prison. [11]
While it cannot be foreseen exactly how much one huge example of secession, breeding lesser ones indefinitely, would retard population, civilization, and prosperity, no one can doubt that the extent of it would be very great and injurious. [7]
There are greater and lesser curves in the movement of every day's life,--a series of ascending and descending movements, a periodicity depending on the very nature of the force at work in the living organism. [6]
Had you been a lesser man I should have had you spitted long ago. [11]

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