Use wiser in a sentence
Sentences ending with wiser
- No blood, no wound, just a tiny pin-prick, as it were; and who would be the wiser? [11]
- In the afternoon Venters built a gate across a small ravine near camp, and here corralled the calves; and he succeeded in completing his task without Bess being any the wiser. [13]
- But we live to be wiser. [11]
- His scheme was the wiser. [11]
- You are older than I am, of course, and much graver and wiser. [10]
- Among those who read his address, "To my Dear People of Berlin," there were many who were wiser. [10]
- Inside the library Lady Belward was comfortably placed, and looking up at Gaston, said: "You have your father's ways: I hope that you will be wiser. [11]
- But you can change that for your check, and nobody the wiser. [4]
- He might have been on the highroad to a renown like that of Chief Justice Marshall, and Honora had been none the wiser. [9]
- Georgette is now as old as when I first came to love you, and you were thrown into the citadel, and yet in feeling and experience, I am ten years older than she; and necessity has made me wiser. [11]
Sentences containing wiser two or more times
- Somehow she felt wiser than he at that moment, wiser and stronger, though she scarcely defined the feeling to herself, though she knew that in the end her brain would yield to her heart in this. [11]
- Nature is wiser than we give her credit for being; never wiser than in her dealings with the old. [6]
More example sentences with the word wiser in them
- A wiser person would have kept such a thing discreetly to himself, but with this harmless creature everything comes out. [5]
- To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
- It would be wiser to meet the prince at the foot of the steps. [10]
- Now, Douglas is wiser than you, for your own benefit, upon that subject. [7]
- Are we any wiser than those great men? [3]
- My heart was wiser than my head. [5]
- Antinous, you are wiser than I. [10]
- Not that the wiser part of the profession needed him to teach them; but the routinists and their employers, the "general practitioners," who lived by selling pills and mixtures, and their drug-consuming customers, had to recognize that people could get well, unpoisoned. [6]
- But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
- He was wondering whether, in this primitive place, such a mind and nature would be the wiser for reading; whether it were not better to be without a mental aspiration, which might set up false standards. [11]
- As it was, we stopped what might have been our murder by saying it would be wiser to hold us as hostages, and that we were Americans. [11]
- Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday; that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. [7]
- I said it was quite right to officer that regiment with nobilities, and he couldn't have done a wiser thing. [5]
- The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, goes up to Auersperg and says: 'Prince, you are being deceived, here are the French! [2]
- Whatever miseries this war brings upon us, it is making us wiser, and, we trust, better. [6]
- I was of two minds whether to wait for Comyn, by far the wiser course. [9]
- She was resolved to return to Chiltern a better and a wiser and a truer woman, unstained by the ordeal. [9]
- In his letter to her he had simply said that it were wiser not to write, since the acting postmistress, the Cure's sister, would note the exchange of letters, and this would arouse suspicion. [11]
- Dear Sir,--You seem to be somewhat, but not a great deal, wiser than I was at your age. [6]
- One would have thought, by that smile, that the son was the older and wiser of the two. [9]
- But I have thought it wiser to leave them as he wrote them. [9]
- If they see this printed page, let them be assured that a writer is always rendered happier by being told that he has made a fellow-being wiser or better, or even contributed to his harmless entertainment. [6]
- Well, Pamela, after thinking it over for a day or so, I came near inquiring about a state-room in our ship for Sam, to please you, but my wiser former resolution came back to me. [5]
- Now the surer thing and the wiser thing would be for him to ask somebody whether it was a good thing to take hold of. [5]
- I don't doubt there are a great many people wiser than I am that would n't be hurt by a hint I am going to give them. [6]
- Nathless, out beyond the stars Reigns the Wiser and the Stronger, Seeing in all strifes and wars Who the wronged, who the wronger. [11]
- In spite of the indispensable cane in his right hand, he wore his long battle sword, but he would have been wiser to leave it at home. [10]
- Mad Anthony loves the General, as we all do, and the Federal government is wiser than the Jacobins think. [9]
- Men can face that sort of thing with a kind of philosophy, not because men are better or wiser, but because it really means less to them. [11]
- One could infer that he had thought this thing all out and chosen this way of making all things fair and right because it was sufficiently fair and considerably wiser than the renunciation-scheme which he had brought with him from England. [5]
- Besides, he knew that a wise woman is wiser than a wise man. [11]
- Always was wiser than our Val or me, Jen was. [11]
- I have been talking with so much levity that I have said no serious thing, and you are really no better or wiser, although Robert Buchanan has suggested that I am a person who deals in wisdom. [5]
- Therefore the best sought him out and made friends with him, and the more he prospered the wiser and better he grew. [10]
- Am I then so much wiser than other folks, or do none but fools come to consult Hekt? [10]
- He undervalued no sincere action except to suggest a wiser and better one. [6]
- Under their wistful shadow he softened, and in the softening felt himself grow a sadder, a wiser, and a better man. [13]
- And then, you see, I thought it would be wiser to find out first how well I was likely to do at the examinations. [9]
- But I think, perhaps, it would be wiser to go back. [9]
- In America the people are absolutely wiser and know much more than their grandfathers did. [5]
- For the sum of sixteen dollars I had the scarred and tarnished splendors of 'her' main saloon principally to myself, for she was not a creature to attract the eye of wiser travelers. [5]
- At the end of our two days' sojourn, we left Great Salt Lake City hearty and well fed and happy--physically superb but not so very much wiser, as regards the "Mormon question," than we were when we arrived, perhaps. [5]
- In the course of one interview he had conveyed to Lise, without arousing her antagonism, the conviction that it was wiser to trust him than to attempt to pull wool over his eyes. [9]
- A little concession, now and then, where it can do no harm, is the wiser policy. [5]
- It were wiser not to state the problem yet. [11]
- The Glipper was not so far wrong; perhaps it would have been wiser and better for me not to bind your fate to mine. [10]
- William Wetherell did not like to ask Jethro, but he thought a little of sounding Mr. Merrill, and then he came to the conclusion that it would be wiser for him not to know. [9]
- Her mother had not kept boarders for seven years without getting some useful knowledge of the world, or without imparting useful knowledge; and there were men who, having paid their bills on demand, turned from her wiser if not better men. [11]
- The wiser and more fortunate of these travellers and students of life brought letters to Mr. and Mrs. Hambleton Durrett. [9]
- Whether this makes men better, wiser, happier, is indeed disputed. [4]
- I'm a wiser man to-day than I was yesterday, I can tell you. [5]
- These things insensibly make us wiser and tenderer, and better. [5]
- Say what you like,--only don't be too peremptory and dogmatic; we know that wiser men than you have been notoriously deceived in their predictions in this very matter. [6]
- She did not know what to say or do; there are puzzling moments even for a wise woman, and there is nothing wiser than that. [11]
- She knew that it would have been wiser not to have mentioned Howard; but Peter's silence, somehow, had impelled her to speak. [9]
- Then I gave it to our coachman, Patrick McAleer, who was very grateful, because he did not know the animal, and thought I was trying to make him wiser and better. [5]
- On the contrary I was then wiser and had more insight than at any other time, and understood all that is worth understanding in life, because... because I was happy. [2]
- I don't know how much wiser you are for that piece of information. [6]
- When Liholiho succeeded his father he found himself possessed of an equipment of royal tools and safeguards which a wiser king would have known how to husband, and judiciously employ, and make profitable. [5]
- I tell you, he's wiser than many learned men; he ought to be called Doctor Lelaps. [10]
- As soon as he got wiser and better he traded it to a heretic for a side-saddle which he could not use, and there my knowledge of its history ends. [5]
- No doubt they have sometimes prescribed unwisely, in compliance with the prejudices of their time, but they have grown wiser as they have grown older, and learned to trust more in nature and less in their plans of interference. [3]
- The matter might have ended there had I been older and wiser, but the excitement of the day had gone to my head like wine. [9]
- Would she not have been wiser to give her money for the redemption of Nickel's lost soul than for the orphans, whom the charity of the people would perhaps have succoured without her? [10]
- It was a happy, diverting influence, which gave the mind rest for a moment, till the better spirit, the wiser feeling, had a chance to reassert itself; but then it seemed to me almost supernatural. [11]
- Harrison commends the great silence used at the tables of the wiser sort, and generally throughout the realm, and likewise the moderate eating and drinking. [4]
- The laws are good, and have proved themselves so; hold fast by these laws, and trust no one who sets himself above them; for law is invariably wiser than the individual man, and its transgressor deserves his punishment. [10]
- No, no, my friend--I am the wiser of us two. [10]
- I thank them for recalling my attention to a truth which I shall be wiser, if not more hilarious, for remembering. [6]
- On the previous evening at the Lodge, he had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. [2]
- Now, did the dogs act thus from the experience of each individual, or from the example of the older and wiser dogs, or from an inherited habit, that is from instinct? [1]
- Perhaps I should be wiser if I refused to attempt any such brief statement of the most valuable lesson that life has taught me. [6]
- But here we are wiser than you. [11]
- To him they are the intensified, reflected image of our own nature, and I think we can do nothing wiser than to cling to that, because it shows us to what heights of beauty and power, intellect, goodness, and purity we may attain. [10]
- Wiser, for we are learning our weakness, our narrowness, our selfishness, our ignorance, in lessons of sorrow and shame. [6]
- His father's wiser and more experienced judgment had decided that the better course was to serve his people as mediator between them and the Arabs rather than to attempt futile resistance at the head of Byzantine troops. [10]
- It is wiser and better and holier to recognize and confess that there is no such thing as disease or pain or death. [5]
- It is wiser and better and holier to recognise and confess that there is no such thing as disease or pain or death. [5]
- She fully appreciated all her varied gifts and knowledge, and deferred to her opinion in every-day matters, not exactly as an oracle, but as wiser than herself or any of her other companions. [6]
- But find me a wiser man in all Nuremberg than your grand-uncle. [10]
- The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age. [6]
- I don't believe a man's any better for having made money so easily and rapidly as Dryfoos has done, and I doubt if he's any wiser. [8]
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