The Quakers appear to have, at a comparatively early period, emancipated themselves in a great degree from the grosser superstitions of their times.
It would not be easy to mention a grosseror blacker act of treachery.
The men whom they called companions deserved a grosser name, and the title of soldier was but a cover to mercenary vice; for, though bloodthirsty by nature, they were lascivious by habit.
She is wedded to convictions--in default of grosser ties; Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!
And nowhere do we find grosser language than in some of Pope's prose epistles to the Blounts.
Opulence has two ways of this grosser sort, by which it may enable its possessor to command the man below him,--punishment and reward.
In proportion as the understanding is cultivated, men are found to be less the victims of drinking and the grosser provocatives of sense.
I am amazed at the consistency and systematic succession of the phenomena of the material universe; though I cannot penetrate the veil which presents itself to my grosser sense, nor see effects in their causes.
We are not now intending to remark upon the grosser misapplications of this ancient maxim, which have engendered so many races of poetasters.
A native of Potsdam, Prussia, Grosser came to Southern California via Panama, and on settling in Los Angeles, laid out the Grosser Tract.
They talked of business affairs, into which Cicily might on occasion flash the light of intuition to clear the way for grosser reason.
The moral of all this was that I had frightened the public too much for our late friend, but that as she was not starving this was exactly what her grosser reputation required.
I reflected indeed that the heat of the admirer was sometimes grosser even than the appetite of the scribe.
What this boy needs at this stage of the game is development in what you properly term the grosser sense, I might even go so far as to say the butcher sense as well as the grocer sense.
These grosser physical manifestations can be but the mere ooze and scum cast up by the waves on the idle pebble, the waters of a heaven-lit sea, if it exist, must lie far out beyond.
If men lived more in the society of women they would be astonished to find how much purer and higher-toned their nature would become; how the mental assimilation was refining their wilder dispositions, their grosser passions.
And man, the divinest of all things, why does he not seek wisdom from within, rather than from these grosser stuffs?
It is just as easy to maintain that the purer ideas have, by this time, been reached by aid of the stepping-stones of the grosser, as that the grosser are the corruption of the purer.
Repulsive as are these grosser and animal manifestations of anger, its impulsion can not and should not be eliminated, but its expression transformed and directed toward evils that need all its antagonism.
These expressions also illustrate the law that the higher and larger the spiritual content, the grosser must be the illustration in which it is first couched.
It is true that it moves the grosserparts of the body by the more subtle parts.
At first being of grosser mind, they failed to realize that any beings existed except sensible bodies.
Bodies of a grosser and inferior nature are ruled in a certain order by those of a more subtle and powerful nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grosser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
