Unfortunately, those gifts were commonly under the control of the baser instincts.
Let us leave them to thebaser spirits who have use for them.
But one thing I can reject, so that for me it is not: the baser element.
For this freedom will bring with it the necessity for continual warfare against all that would limit and restrain it--namely, the passions and desires and inclinations of our baser or nobler, but godless, self.
Still further, whilst this new life makes us free from the harshness of a law that can only proclaim duty, and also makes us free from our own baser selves, it makes us free from all human authority.
This rabble, which claims for itself a top place in the scale of intellectual rank, and freedom from the constraint of all moral laws as its most noble privilege, is certainly baser than the lowest scavenger.
The first impulse of this change of circumstance has been the churning up of man's baser passions of greed and cruel hatred.
Europe is not ready to give up her political inhumanity, with all the baser passions of man attendant upon it; she believes only in modification of systems, and not in change of heart.
The people themselves, being free from the responsibilities of the baser and more heinous side of those adventures, had all the advantage of the heroic and the human disciplines derived from them.
The original alchemists sought the secret of converting the baser metals into gold, in itself a sufficiently alluring and human occupation.
He goes through the forms of study, remains superior to the baser practical ends of life, and finds his reward in the self-satisfaction of exclusive wisdom.
Baser fires go out, When the Sun shines on 'em: I am not well, An Apoplectick fit I use to have After my heats in war carelesly coold.
How much unhappy were that noble spirit, could work by such baser gains?
All that was best in her was warring with the baser human side of a really fine nature.
But whatever his faults or virtues, and the latter were few enough, his mainspring of character was a colossal courage that could not long be held under by baser considerations.
I've come to tell you there's no honesty in these professional leaders of labor--to tell you that the whole game is a baser and far worse side of the competition of life than is that of the men it is directed against.
How long would it take your politicians of the baser sort to combine for the admission of the islands whose electoral votes they had reason to think they could control?
The national spirit was venal and mercenary--the heart of an hireling, or, as Isaiah by a baser name describes it, the heart of an harlot.
Then let us leave this baserfiddling trade; For though our purse should mend, our credits fade.
Who's that runs headlong on my quill's sharp point, That, wearied of his life and baser breath, Offers himself to an Iambic verse?
Pryncesses that whilom trespassed with those whych were of baser stuffe than themselues.
It's evenbaser work than I bargained for," she said, "to deceive him.
But constrained, even as I am, to ply the basertrade and stoop to that we see and touch and smell!
Because the noble rewards and the consideration which former times bestowed on learning are to-day diverted to baser pursuits!
Was there no baser conquest within reach that this white, virginal, slender saint should become his prey?
If they are not in the throng and press of active life, they can cheer others on to high aims, or basely reward the baser methods of existence.
If another American youth was ever lured into a baser trap, by a baser official, his name has never been recorded.
Such meanness ought to be left to baser men than you are.
There, truly, patriot zeal so prominent Allowed friends' plea perhaps: the baser stuff Was but the nobler spirit's vehicle.
Nay, I have observed that some men of the baser sort do strangely mingle cruelty with that sort of love they cherish, so that you will see such fellows take pleasure in making women weep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
