Sewell was, she recognized, a cleverer man than he, and it would be consoling if he showed himself more amenable.
If I were a little cleverer and richer I think that I could.
He had also a shrewd suspicion that Leger was a cleverer man than himself.
The lady had been cleverer than himself, and had made the best use of her time.
A few, who pretended to be cleverer than the rest, declared that they could diagnose sick people only from sight, ordered her certain potions, which she made no difficulty about taking, as she was persuaded they were all harmless.
You are a thousand timescleverer than he; but do you belong to a great family, have you a name?
I thought you were clevererthan that, youngster," said Blondet.
I am cleverer than you, for I do not need lenses, paper, chemicals, and sunshine, to reproduce you in every form within my heart.
It would not be the first time that the heart has proved clevererthan the brain.
What he meant was in no wise that she was clevererthan other people.
Other verses were obviously cleverer and daintier than hers, but her own simple thoughts were more in harmony with her delightful little pictures.
Scarcely has the door closed behind him when Scirocco bursts out violently: "You are a muttonhead, Pistasch; the little banker is a hundred times cleverer than you.
Susie must have been cleverer than I accredited her with being," once remarked Eugene von Rhoeden, who indifferently looked on upon his relative's movements.
I confess, however, that when they were very exquisite or subtle they seemed to me like cut flowers; the finer they were the frailer, and the cleverer the more wrong-headed.
I am not prepared with any arguments to disprove them, and much better, cleverer fellows than I am go in for them entirely.
And though Will had not seen Dorothea alone, their interviews had been enough to restore her former sense of young companionship with one who was cleverer than herself, yet seemed ready to be swayed by her.
As we grow older and cleverer we think that too simple, too crude; we dissimulate more elaborately, but with an effect much less baffling.
There's nonecleverer than 'im, of course, in 'is own line.
Mahony, his chin propped on the flaxen head of the child, whom he nursed, soon fell out of the running for Polly proved far the cleverer at grasping the nature of the information John sought, and at retailing it.
And that DOES seem a pity, when you are so clever--so much, much cleverer than other people!
There ain't a cleverer man in our body, nor wasn't a better liked as he was then.
Decidedly, he is clevererthan I thought," she said musingly.
Peyrade, a man knowing the traditions, collected the force with the assistance of a man named Corentin, a far cleverer man than Peyrade, though younger; but he was a genius only in the subterranean ways of police inquiries.
I'm a lot cleverer than you think, and I don't make mistakes of that sort.
You are not a bit cleverer than you used to be," she said.
The General was the cleverer soldier of the two, as the Kala Kin Expedition bore witness.
There is a great deal in it that I cannot praise; but, really when it comes to sounding an alarm, attacking, and pitching in, it is cleverer than your paper.
But it rarely entered Wilson's brain (though he was cleverer than most) that the world could find anything to scoff at in such a fine fellow as James Wilson.
He realized for a moment his own inefficiency as a business man, in conflict with cleverer rivals, and felt sorry to be thus handicapped by nature.
As he crept along the School Road with a rueful face, he was alone, for Janet, who was cleverer than he, was always earlier at school.
But it was a compliment to his audience to call them cleverer than Boni, whose great power already showed itself in his keen eye and square shoulders.
She did not know that women are intuitive, for she knew nothing either of women or men, but she felt perfectly certain that she was cleverer than Thomas Holt.
She had neither the fine physique that enables a woman to bear big stupid sons, nor the intelligence which breeds a cleverer generation; she was sunk in the worship of easy pleasure, and ever bade the fleeting joy to tarry yet awhile.
She wascleverer than Pa, who no longer performed, nor Ma either.
If the tricks were clumsily devised and easily detected there would be no attraction, but the cleverer and more puzzling the trick the more eagerly people flock to see it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleverer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
