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Sentences ending with than

I say that she bears in her bosom a cold and treacherous heart; that she blights my days and my nights; in short, that I would rather be condemned to live under the same roof with clammy reptiles and cold-blooded snakes than. [10]

Short sentences using than

Anything more than you've told? [11]
More than two years ago. [5]
And more than this. [5]
Oh, longer than that. [5]
Nothing more than that. [11]
Oh, more than that! [5]
It was more than true. [2]
Are you better than they? [5]
Isn't life more than that? [9]
I'm worth more than that. [9]

Sentences containing than two or more times

I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
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]
I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
The Greek Plutarch, who lived much nearer the period of our heroine than Dio, estimated her more justly than most of the Roman historians. [10]
His reddish chop whiskers seemed to cling a little more closely to his face than formerly, and long years of compression made his mouth look sterner than ever. [9]
We two youths were happy; happier than any words can tell--for we were not in the secret any more than the rest. [5]
The school never went on more smoothly than during the first period of his administration, after he had arranged its duties, and taken his share, and even more than his share, upon himself. [6]
It is a well-known law that widely-ranging species are much more variable than species with restricted ranges; and the variability of man may with more truth be compared with that of widely- ranging species, than with that of domesticated animals. [1]
You might as well tell me that if one horse weighs more than another horse he is worth more,--a cart-horse that weighs twelve or fourteen hundred pounds better than Eclipse, that may have weighed a thousand. [6]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]

More example sentences with the word than in them

I don't believe you've got any more sense than to do it. [9]
She said: "If you've done wrong, Si Hawkins, it's a wrong that will shine brighter at the judgment day than the rights that many' a man has done before you. [5]
Greater men than you--the two Aurelians--will guide it. [10]
You might spare yourself that smile; I know her better than you do. [10]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
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]
If he is your husband, wouldn't it be better to have him successful than your defeated victim. [11]
This place is your home, and dearer to you than any other, so build yourself a snug nest here with the person you have in mind. [10]
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 hole in your head is hotter than it need be--keep it properly cool with fresh water. [10]
The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
I suppose then, your friend Gyges speaks Greek better than you do? [10]
And, spite of your flashing eyes, I will tell you you are more than a woman, you are a prophetess. [10]
I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
Do you think your charitable act is more acceptable than the Good Samaritan's, because you do it in the name of Him who made the memory of that kind man immortal? [6]
This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
His worst enemy, your brother, would probably sacrifice himself for his welfare sooner than I. [10]
The work of your association is better and shows more wisdom than the Czar of Russia and all his people. [5]
But, as for your advice--Holy Virgin!--I know now less than ever how I am to fare; but I shall soon learn. [10]
One word about your absent husband must surely sound sweeter to your ears, than all my music. [10]
He was much younger then than he is now, and he showed 'it. [5]
Fedya Obolenski is younger than I, and he's going too. [2]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. [5]
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]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
Now, I suppose you'll think I'm insolent, for I'm younger than you are, Marmion, but you know what a rough-and-tumble fellow I am, and you'll not mind. [11]
That's more than you'd have got in any other village of the Utah border. [13]
I appear before you, therefore, for little else than to greet you, and to briefly say farewell. [7]
But I like you, Richard, as I have said more than once. [9]
But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
I am sure you would wish them to take more responsibility than you will now assume in Canada. [11]
More than this you would not ask me to say. [6]
I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. [5]
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]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either. [12]
But I tell you true that though I love you better than anything in the world, if things had gone well with you I'd never have come to you. [11]
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]
Ranulph, I want you to know that I am at least no worse than you thought me. [11]
I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
I appear before you to do little more than acknowledge the courtesy you pay me, and to thank you for it. [7]
Could prayer, do you think, make me sorrier than I am? [11]
But, Ruth, do you think you would be happier or do more good in following your profession than in having a home of your own? [5]
Let me tell you there's no better blood in the land than the Austen blood. [9]
The English give you the substantials, and better, I believe, than any other people. [4]
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]
When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
I'm always making you out more than human...only, let me say--I meant that--about riding away. [13]
He'll never forgive you no more than she. [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]
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]
I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
Why, Cap., don't you know, it's as much as a hundred times worse in there now than it was when he first got a-going. [5]
He knows and you know that the question is not settled, and that his ill-timed experiment to settle it has made it worse than it ever was before. [7]
Pardon me, for you know that nobody cares more for you than I do,--I hope that you are happy in all your relations with this young friend of yours. [6]
I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do. [10]
I can put you in correspondence with such a person, and you had better trust him than me a great deal. [6]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
Older folk than you have wondered at the same thing before now. [12]
I might let you go and speak; but I think my chances are better than yours, Cluny. [11]
Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
Such men as you come lower than Judas. [11]
McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of those of any other part of the district. [7]
I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you ought to know best. [7]
Do you deny you are no better than a tramp? [11]
Indeed and indeed you are much better than I am. [10]
As a prince you are much better than as a plain man, for princes may do what other men may not. [11]
I do believe you are more than half gone. [4]
I've lived with you all this time, and you do not know me any better than you know--the scrub-woman. [9]
For she lies yonder, and before her is another journey than that. [5]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
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]
Stephen must needs yield to his mother's persuasions and try them on--they were more than a passable fit. [9]
His thoughts, as yet, have no wider range than home. [12]
And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
They have not yet succeeded in filling her place, and I think it more than likely that you can get it. [9]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
I have not yet been released from the duties I undertook there, and it will be more worthy of us both that Asclepiodorus should give you the daughter of Philotas as your wife than that you should be married to a runaway serving-maid of Serapis. [10]
If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
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 was young, yes; but he would never be any older than this, could never love again like this. [9]

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