In the sixteenth century the tie of tenure is still the symbol of greater things, and the wrench which is given it by the partial commercialising of agriculture seems to portend more ruinous innovations.
His liberty may be more in shadow than in substance, yet the shadow is itself an earnest of greater things.
Trades, and plough, and profit must stand by, when God calls us (by necessity or otherwise) to greater things.
Sight will sometimes do more than the hearing of greater things.
Consider how you know and observe the season for your worldly labours, and should you not much more do so in greater things?
Therefore in lesser things we should have lesser commotion, and in greater things greater, suitable to them.
Many by aspiring to greater things, lose these things they have, and themselves too.
Still aspiring to greater things, he promised his wife that he would one day command a king's ship and own a "fair brick house in the Green Lane of North Boston," a quarter then occupied by citizens of the better class.
The capture of Pemaquid was, for him, but the beginning of greater things; and, though the exploits that followed were outside the main theatre of action, they were too remarkable to be passed in silence.
It was small, but decisive, and might be an earnest of greater things to come.
At last, thinking that the Sicilian offer was likely to lead to greater things, as Africa was close to that island, he decided to accept it, and at once sent Kineas to prepare the cities for his arrival, as was his wont in such cases.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greater things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
