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Sentences starting with lower

Lower down in the valley sprang a brooklet of which he knew, and hard by it grew various herbs and roots, with which he had often allayed his hunger. [10]
Lower yet, if Mavick's brokers begin to unload. [4]
Lower that pistol! [9]
Lower away! [5]

Sentences ending with lower

Meantime the days went along and the weeks, and the money in Harry's pocket got lower and lower. [5]
Comyn dropped his voice still lower. [9]
Perhaps, if German troops occupied New England and New York, our own mental barometer might be lower. [9]
Mr. Bixby said to the mate:-- 'Upper end of the plantation, or the lower? [5]
He stirred, as though to shake off the net that he felt twisting round him, in the hands of the robust and powerful Dupont, on whom crime sat so lightly, who had flourished while he, Lygon, had gone lower and lower. [11]
But I know that what we feel, although it may be foreign to our usual sensations, is loftier and more precious than these, not lower. [10]
But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower. [2]
That means the rents are lower. [4]
Well, there is one consolation, such as it is--I've struck bottom this time; there's nothing lower. [5]
There certainly had not been any such coverlet as this on her bed in the Serapeum, and the room there was much lower. [10]

Short sentences using lower

The fire burned lower. [11]
Provisions ran lower and lower. [5]

Sentences containing lower two or more times

Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly. [5]
Then the sun sank lower and lower, till it set in the sea concealed behind the mountains. [10]
Genius, on the other hand, is much more like those instincts which govern the admirable movements of the lower creatures, and therefore seems to have something of the lower or animal character. [6]
Gone lower and lower and lower. [11]
Undone, sinking ever lower and lower, thou hast watched me rise to be the richest and most powerful of my nation. [10]
Daily, as the fair young idol of the house sank lower and lower, the sorrowful old aunts painted her glowing bloom and her fresh young beauty to the wan mother, and winced under the stabs her ecstasies of joy and gratitude gave them. [5]
You have to come down lower and lower after sundown in the desert, because it cools off so fast; and so, by the time it is getting toward dawn, you are skimming along only a little ways above the sand. [5]
Presently the watcher began to nod; his head drooped lower and lower, both men began to snore now. [5]
The broken-down, defeated bankrupt is no novelty in Wall Street, the man struggling to keep his foothold in the business of the Street, and descending lower and lower in the scale. [4]
But there is a lower level,--that of tranquil contentment and easy acquiescence in the conditions in which we find ourselves; a lower level, in which old age trudges patiently when it is not using its wings. [6]

More example sentences with the word lower in them

That was before you went on the lower bench. [9]
Well, how do you suppose your lower limbs are held to your body? [6]
Such men as you come lower than Judas. [11]
For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
So it is with the lower animals. [1]
Dry night and wind steady enough to require no change in sail; but this A.M. an attempt to lower it proved abortive. [5]
I shall be willin', however, to retain your services at sech redooced rate as we shall fix upon,--provided sech redooced rate be as low or lower than the same services can be obtained elsewhere. [6]
Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
The soldiers, of whom there are the most, form the lower section of the cone and its base. [2]
The room in which he was sitting was spacious and cool; the lower part of the walls was lined with earthenware tiles, the upper half plastered and painted. [10]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
Our eyes were wet when we reached the lower hall, and I was making for the door in an agony to leave the place, when the bailiff came out of his little office. [9]
The lower things were flying from it, a spirit of womanhood was living in her-- feebly, but truly, living. [11]
It is fairly well developed in the two lower divisions of the mammalian series, namely, in the monotremata and marsupials, and in some few of the higher mammals, as in the walrus. [1]
It is that we have a conscious, or lower, human self, and a subconscious, or better self. [9]
Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
The count's face was white and he could not control the feverish twitching of his lower jaw. [2]
But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower--going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. [5]
In 1846 I was once elected to the lower House of Congress. [7]
The third storey was lower than the others, separated from them by a distinct line. [9]
Voices mingled, there was light laughter, little bursts of admiration, then lower tones, and then he was roused by a voice calling. [11]
The Emperor's table was laid in one of the lower rooms of the Golden Cross. [10]
The lower story was fitted up as a shop. [6]
The long table was divided into upper and lower messes by a huge salt-cellar; and the consequence of the guests was marked by their seats above or below the salt. [4]
But since he was denied speech, he scorned the inarticulate mouthings of the lower animals. [4]
The lower half was closed, the upper open, and the winter sun was shining full into the room, where a bright fire burned. [11]
The lower river was about bank-full, and if anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt. [5]
Then a title was a title to those born lower, and the young man plainly had a vast honour for a coronet. [9]
In a lower voice Mona continued: "I don't know what possessed me, but perhaps it was that the things he did of which I disapproved most had got a hold on me in spite of myself. [11]
Male sperm-whales are very jealous at this season; and in their battles "they often lock their jaws together, and turn on their sides and twist about"; so that their lower jaws often become distorted. [1]
These differences or variations seem to be induced by the same general causes, and to obey the same laws as with the lower animals. [1]
Not only does variability appear to be induced in man and the lower animals by the same general causes, but in both the same parts of the body are affected in a closely analogous manner. [1]
A solemn and utter silence surrounded him, and when the eagle swooped down and vanished from his sight, and the mist rolled lower into the valley, he felt that here, alone, he was high above all other living beings, and standing nearer to the Divinity. [10]
Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent. [2]
We have an upper and lower skin. [5]
His glance was upon the batteries in lower town. [11]
The boat came up to the surface, broken in twain, splintered, a load of firewood for those who raked the river lower down. [6]
It was not until afterwards, in wandering through the lower rooms of this house, become so dear to her, that agitation seized her, and a desire to weep. [9]
On Monday and Tuesday at sunrise we again had fair-to-middling views of the stupendous mountains; then, being well cooled off and refreshed, we were ready to chance the weather of the lower world once more. [5]
Fourth.--I resolved to try on Winters, silently, and unconsciously to himself a mesmeric power which I possess over certain kinds of people, and which at times I have found to work even in the dark over the lower animals. [5]
In the lower town there was like illumination, and out upon the river trailed long processions of light. [11]
Caniza is a town in Lower Hungary, north of the River Drave, and just west of the Platen Sea, or Lake Balatin, as it is also called. [4]
He turned up Tower, deliberately avoiding Dalton Street in its lower part, reached Mr. Bentley's door. [9]
Together they sped towards the mine, little groups running beside them, muttering those dark sayings which, either as curses or laments, are painful comments on the relations of life on the lower levels with life on the higher plateaux. [11]
My own duties took me to the dark lower deck, a vile place indeed, and reeking with the smell of tar and stale victuals. [9]
I have lost too many friends," he added in a lower voice. [11]
Then he called to them to return, but Jenny only bent a little lower and paddled on, guiding the canoe towards the safe channel through the first small rapids leading to the great Dog Nose Rapids. [11]
But throngs flocked to the camp of Materialism, for the trumpets of her leaders had a clearer, more confident sound than the lower and less readily understood opposing cries of the philosophers. [10]
Are we, then, to suppose that some extremely ancient mammal continued androgynous, after it had acquired the chief distinctions of its class, and therefore after it had diverged from the lower classes of the vertebrate kingdom? [1]
I am pleased to say that he has been promoted to an upper clerkship, and, in consequence of his rise in office, has taken an apartment somewhat lower down than number "forty-'leven," as he facetiously called his attic. [6]
It is said to rest on another rock, of which it formed a part before its unfortunate journey, and that lower rock as everybody knows, rests upon the immutable principle of self-government. [4]
Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, syphilis, cholera, herpes, etc. [1]
Man is liable to numerous, slight, and diversified variations, which are induced by the same general causes, are governed and transmitted in accordance with the same general laws, as in the lower animals. [1]
It is felt to lower the dignity of the white agricultural laborer in Queensland, and beyond a doubt it lowers his wages there. [5]
Macrinus then proceeded to inform the higher and lower officers of the course of action he had agreed upon with the emperor and Zminis. [10]
Yet his offer to have it made smaller was not accepted, because had it been lower the devout supplicants who stood there to pray could not have raised their eyes to it. [10]
Flower have shewn to exist uniformly in the higher and lower apes. [1]
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
At ten minutes to eight she emerged again and glanced anxiously at Mrs. Holt's door; and scarcely had she reached the lower hall before he drove into the circle. [9]
The foliage seemed to consist of big bunches of pine-spines, the lower half of each bunch a rich brown or old-gold color, the upper half a most vivid and strenuous and shouting green. [5]
The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes. [2]
Little things suffice to amuse the lower classes, who do not have to bother their heads with elections and mass meetings. [4]
Then we came to a station, and he got up and went out, muttering: "I must find a lower berth, or wait over. [5]
And then, as though some supernaturally penetrating ray had pierced a square hole in the lower walls, a glimpse of the interior was revealed to her, of the living room at the north end of the house. [9]
The Plato on this lower shelf bears the inscription: "Ezroe Stiles, 1766. [6]
He delighted to think that even the lower animals had improved, both in appearance and disposition. [4]
They talked as they went, and Carnac saw she was of the lower middle-class, with more refinement than was common in that class, and more charm. [11]
The lower down they sailed, the denser were the thickets of papyrus on the shore. [10]
Just as before, they never mentioned him so as not to lower (as they thought) their exalted feelings by words; but this silence about him had the effect of making them gradually begin to forget him without being conscious of it. [2]
But the path they had followed from their last encampment, the harbor by the Red Sea, was rugged, arid, and to them, who had grown up among the fruitful plains of Lower Egypt, toilsome and full of terror. [10]
It is by these standards that he knows whether to class the city higher or lower than the other municipalities of the world. [5]
Do you think there may be predispositions, inherited or ingrafted, but at any rate constitutional, which shall take out certain apparently voluntary determinations from the control of the will, and leave them as free from moral responsibility as the instincts of the lower animals? [6]
The Emperor sat there at the head of the banquet table, and by his side, on a lower throne, his sister, the Burgravine von Zollern. [10]
Such differences between the upper and lower surfaces of the wings of several species of Papilio may be seen in the beautiful plates to Mr. Wallace's 'Memoir on the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region,' in 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. [1]
It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. [2]
The deputation from the temple of Memphis led the procession; this temple had been founded by Mena, the first king who wore the united crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Chamus, the king's son, was the high-priest. [10]
In this case the struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe, and virtue will be triumphant. [1]
I saw crossing the street a middle-aged woman,--a decent body, who looked as if she might have come from the lower level of some not opulent but respectable household. [6]
Please observe:-- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. [5]
Even yet upon the sky was the reflection of the fire, and distant sounds of singing, shouting, and carousal came to us from the Lower Town. [11]
As I passed the servants in the lower hall, I could not but remark an altered treatment. [9]
A month later the secession atmosphere had considerably thickened on the Lower Mississippi, and I became a rebel; so did he. [5]
As man possesses the same senses as the lower animals, his fundamental intuitions must be the same. [1]
The windows at the rear have small panes; the lower sashes are raised; the tops of the hollyhocks and foxgloves in the garden bed may be seen above the window sills, and the apple trees beyond. [9]
Hood's return, and the procession of the Lower House through the streets, and the arrival of the Good Intent, did high words arise among the quality. [9]
A smile which the priests of lower rank who surrounded his litter knew not how to interpret, flitted over his shrewd, defiant countenance. [10]
Such social qualities, the paramount importance of which to the lower animals is disputed by no one, were no doubt acquired by the progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. [1]
Here also stood the palaces of the great nobles and, on the side of the hill which sloped to the lower city, the Cathedral of St. Gudule towered proudly aloft. [10]
These appearances, on the other hand, are intelligible, at least to a large extent, if man is the co-descendant with other mammals of some unknown and lower form. [1]
Gradations, also, in the muscles leading to structures found in animals still lower in the scale, are numerous in the Lemuroidea. [1]
They belong to the Mulluscoida of Huxley--a lower division of the great kingdom of the Mollusca; but they have recently been placed by some naturalists amongst the Vermes or worms. [1]
In succeeding chapters the mental powers of man, in comparison with those of the lower animals, will be considered. [1]
The devil dragged the man who did that down to the lower regions long ago, on account of my tongue. [10]
Involuntarily she removed the lower veil from her face and raised her hand in prayer. [10]
The centre of the lower story was formed by a lofty hall of vast dimensions, in whose midst were the large marble sarcophagi. [10]
This continues until the lower row of harems is nearly full. [1]
Down here in the Lower River, they drive some pegs to turn the water away from the shore and stop it from slicing off the bank; very well, don't it go straight over and cut somebody else's bank? [5]
Something twitched in the lower part of the old prince's face. [2]

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