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Sentences starting with rather

Rather than return to her benefactress she would have joined the roofless crew who passed the night on the hard marble pavement of the forecourts of the temple. [10]
Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form. [7]
Rather than run the gantlet of the crowded veranda she stepped out on the lawn, and there encountered Trixton Brent. [9]
Rather death in the Danube than to dispense with it! [10]
Rather would she spend her whole life on a ship's deck, tossed to and fro by the surges, than share this man's fate. [10]
Rather will I shelter him from thy revenge, knowing as I do the impure source from which it springs. [10]
Rather a light purse,' added Isaac, throwing it into the air and catching it dexterously, 'but enough to amuse a gentleman for half an hour or so. [12]
Rather would he lose his life as a rebel, or wander an exile through the world and seek far from home a wider field for deeds of prowess, than put his free neck under the feet of the foe. [10]
Rather let us leave the past in peace. [10]
Rather than go into the hands of a receiver I venture to say that hereafter, if this bill is made a law, the necessary testimony will be forthcoming. [9]

Sentences ending with rather

He refused to yield his sword to subordinates, saying: "I will die rather. [5]
A snuffbox with the Emperor's portrait is a reward but not a distinction," said the diplomatist--"a gift, rather. [2]
As for me, I would as soon blush as sneeze; in fact, I would rather. [5]
Everybody's head was full of such "calculations" as those --such raving insanity, rather. [5]

Short sentences using rather

I'd--I'd rather be with you. [9]
Ain't that rather un-American doctrine? [8]
I rather seem to scoff. [11]
Yes, but rather tiresome. [4]
We'd rather fight than eat. [11]
He rather liked Susan Posey. [6]
This is rather slow. [5]
Some paper, I rather think. [6]
Something light and rather fluffy. [4]
It sounded rather painful. [9]

Sentences containing rather two or more times

I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
If this really was so she would rather, a thousand times rather, lift her hands in prayer to the smiling Aphrodite, roguish Eros, beautiful Apollo, and all the nine Muses who protected her Pollux, than to Him. [10]
Only one thing was perfectly clear to her: she would rather starve and die of thirst, and shame, and misery-nay, she would rather be the instrument of her own death, than return to her husband. [10]
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [7]
Rather, a thousand times rather, would he beg his bread, and attain great things in Art, than riot and revel in good-fortune. [10]
Now the dwarf spoke again: "It was rather pitiful, rather small, in you to refuse to read that poor young woman's manuscript the other day, and give her an opinion as to its literary value; and she had come so far, too, and so hopefully. [5]
To the faint sound of the instrument, which was rather a large one, and which he had propped on the pillow by his side, he was singing, or rather murmuring a long ditty. [10]
But they are rather beautiful," she added softly, "and I am rather happy. [11]
Yet I would rather be your follower, rather have your arrow in me, than be your hunter. [11]
The feeling must of necessity come to many aged persons that they have outlived their usefulness; that they are no longer wanted, but rather in the way, drags on the wheels rather than helping them forward. [6]

More example sentences with the word rather in them

You can educate yourself--or rather reeducate yourself. [9]
I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
In my opinion, your good swords have been rather long idle. [10]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
If I'd been you, I'd rather have hung --ah, sure! [11]
You mean that you would rather keep out of the way of the man you prayed for, so long as he is well. [10]
I would rather you were not of the number either. [14]
I'd rather take you to her in your coffin. [11]
I don't doubt you think it rather absurd that I should trouble myself about these matters. [6]
But I assure you that it is my misfortune rather than my fault that I have not pleased you,--that I have met you only to anger you. [9]
But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
Col. Youngs says you must rent Kinkead's room by all means--Government would rather pay $150 a month for your office than $75 for Gen. North's. [5]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
I have read you a few extracts, most of them of rather slight texture, and some of them, you perhaps thought, whimsical. [6]
If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
Musical it was, yet there seemed no pleasure in it: rather irony, and a great weariness of the amusements of this world: and a note, too, from a vanity never ruffled. [9]
It was sacred, yet it was not solemn; peaceful, yet not sombre; rather gentle, aspiring, and clear. [11]
She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
During the seventy years I have lived I have grown to have but little faith in outward demonstration, to believe in deeds and attainments rather than expressions. [9]
Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
Which of them would you rather be buried in? [5]
The old man would scarcely have understood his motives, and it was better for both to part without seeing each other rather than in open strife. [10]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
But still I would rather you had saved me than any one else who wasn't bound, like Tynie, to do so. [11]
And yet I would rather that he should arrive in fourteen days than in eight. [10]
A true Egyptian would rather starve, than eat out of the same dish with one of us. [10]
I think I would rather see it than any other thing in the world. [5]
I said I would rather not drink a whisky cocktail. [5]
For myself, I would rather have seen Lamb himself once, than to have lived with Judas. [4]
He said he would rather have my custom than any man's in town. [5]
And then I would rather have had charge of a hospital ward than take care of that uncle. [4]
Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
He thought he would rather die than touch it again. [5]
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. [5]
So, often, we would rather be hurt than hurt. [11]
Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
He said he would let Harris go for two francs; and that unless we were unusually timid, he should consider guides and porters unnecessary; it was not customary to take them, when going by telescope, for they were rather an encumbrance than a help. [5]
This woman's hatred would lead her to destroy them rather than let them fall into the hands of her imperial enemy; and who can blame her? [10]
I thought I would just give you a hint, as you are going to see Mr. Parr, that he is in rather a nervous state. [9]
His looks, indeed, would have scared a timid person into a fit; but I resolved I would die rather than show the fear with which he inspired me. [9]
For me, I would endure all the tortures of the world rather than call you husband ever again. [11]
My Western course would easily amount to $10,000, but I would rather make 2 or 3 thousand in New England than submit again to so much wearing travel. [5]
I suppose you would bring some things out into daylight questioning that I had rather leave in that twilight of half-belief peopled with shadows--if they are only shadows--more sacred to me than many realities. [6]
The old man would a thousand times rather his wife lived than died. [11]
You know I would a thousand times rather bake your cakes and clean your silver! [9]
Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
I heard his words distinctly, but at first lacked the faculty of stringing them together, or rather of extracting their collective sense. [9]
Miss Grower was wont to express optimism in deeds rather than words. [9]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
A dark little woman, rather worn--must have been pretty once though. [5]
He could deal with those millions virtuously, and withal with ability, too--but of course you would rather he had a salaried position? [5]
Be not angry with the Greek woman, who confesses that she would rather die free as a beggar than live in bondage as a queen, though envied by the whole world. [10]
Both were heavyset, with rather stern faces, both had close-cropped, tan-coloured mustaches and wide jaws, with blue eyes like Susan's. [9]
Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
At the opera, with Lord Ossory and Mr. Fitzpatrick, I talked through the round of the boxes, from Lady Pembroke's on the right to Lady Hervey's on the left, where Dolly's illness and Lady Harrington's snuffing gabble were the topics rather than Giardini's fiddling. [9]
He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance rather than the style in which he lived. [4]
She was content with her lot; and if any change for the worse were in prospect she would rather not be tormented beforehand by a wise prophet; nor was it better to be deluded by a foolish one. [10]
It was rather with a tremulous interest than with open hilarity that the rumor was generally received. [6]
The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking. [5]
He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
I was pleased with a kind of truth which it seemed to me to wrap up in its rather startling affirmation. [6]
He introduced them with a few remarks, he told me, of which the only one he remembered was this: that he had rather write a single line which one among them should think worth remembering than set them all laughing with a string of epigrams. [6]
And he rather wished he were going back to St. Louis. [9]
We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only. [10]
But if he will not point out anything erroneous in the evidence, is it not rather for him to show, by a comparison of the evidence, that I have reasoned falsely, than to call the "kind, amiable, intelligent gentleman" a liar? [7]
And since she will not have me, I would rather it were you than any man alive. [9]
I think it will be more agreeable to Sarah's feelings, when she comes to hear from me of the honour you have done her, if she learns it was in liquor rather cooler than the last, Sir. [12]
I nursed his wife, you know--and he started in to tell me how he was coming up to Foxon Falls to shoot Mr. Pindar because he'd closed down the works rather than recognize the union. [9]
I know a wife awaiting you, whom you will rather see than any picture in the glass, even were it that of a fairy. [10]
She was a widow, and rather poor; consequently she had seen trouble enough to enable her to feel for the unfortunate. [5]
Father--are they so wholly wrong, if they would rather be Hollanders than Spaniards? [10]
Clemens, on the whole, rather tired of Virginia City and Carson, thought it a good time to go across the mountains to San Francisco. [5]
Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it. [5]
Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
And after a while Honora was thankful that chance had sent her in this hour to him rather than to Mrs. Kame. [9]
In a little while familiarity modified their fears and they gave the place a critical and interested examination, rather admiring their own boldness, and wondering at it, too. [5]
The generation to which you, who are just entering the profession, belong, will make a vast stride forward, as I believe, in the direction of treatment by natural rather than violent agencies. [3]
The carts from which the noise proceeded belonged to traders from neighboring cities, who preferred to leave their goods in the threatened town, rather than carry them towards the advancing Spaniards. [10]
The old jacket, which she took up, did look rather rusty. [4]
The three years which had passed since she married had touched her not at all to her disadvantage, rather to her profit. [11]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
I don't know whether you'll agree with me, but I think this is rather nice. [8]
Clemens said that when he took the Jumping Frog book to Carlton, in 1867, the latter, pointing to his stock, said, rather scornfully: "Books? [5]
Tell me rather what thou thinkest of our temples and pyramids. [10]
And then, with what seemed a retarded rather than sudden awareness, I knew that he had stopped speaking. [9]
But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
Perhaps because they were rather deeply set, though large, and because they seemed to glow in the shadows made by the brows, the strange intensity was deepened. [11]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
His own funds were exhausted by this time, and Orion, with his rather slender salary, became the financial partner of the firm. [5]
After breakfast he went up-stairs and put, on a light loose frock, instead of that which he commonly wore, which was a close-fitting and rather stylish one. [6]
As I never went prepared with a speech for any such occasion, I take it for granted that I thanked the company in a way that showed my gratitude rather than my eloquence. [6]
Messick was very well, though rather high-flavored, but for genuine nutritiousness and delicacy of fiber, give me Harris. [5]
We left Jacob's Well and traveled till eight in the evening, but rather slowly, for we had been in the saddle nineteen hours, and the horses were cruelly tired. [5]
He felt the weight of every word, and he had rather have told of the scalping of a hundred men than of his last meeting with Jessica. [11]

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