John was wearing the new Eton jacket, also a new white waistcoat; the parting in his hair was straighter than it had ever been before, his ears were pink.
He was proud that he had walked and stood up, and had been the master of his circumstance; but just because he had done so he was aware that his friend was a little, a very little farther away to-night than he had ever been before.
The capital, therefore, which supported all those different branches of industry, must have been equal to what it had ever been before.
In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded what it had ever been before, and it has continued to advance ever since.
Money has superseded barter, and financial capital has become fluid and free; not perhaps so fluid and free as it is to-day, but much more so than it had ever been before.
It is difficult to estimate whether, amidst these constant wars, life had become more uncertain and unhappy than it had ever been before, but there can be no doubt that men had become more conscious of its miseries and insecurities.
He was, as he sat there, more of one than he had ever been before.
He would be brave, braver than he had ever been before, and perhaps in some strange way his bravery would help Stephen.
As time went on she knew that her husband was more happy than he had ever been before--and increasingly unhappy.
In the hour before she went to sleep what she meant by "that way" was a more living thing than it had ever been before.
Here tonight, among the things they had left, something made him more sorry for Ruth and Stuart than he had ever been before.
He was even leading a life which as it appeared to George was freer from anxiety than it had ever been before.
A tired memory which seemed flatter and duller than it had ever been before, ran through his soul.
Now that the sober mood of the early dawn stole almost painfully through his senses the whole episode seemed more remote and improbable than it had ever been before.
It was different to-night from what it had ever been before, as she had said.
He had been near death many times--the consciousness that he was nearer to it now, possibly, than he had ever been before, seemed to stimulate his senses into acute and abnormal energy.
Her condition was so lonely that I became more of a son than I had ever been before, and tried always to be careful of her wants.
The new dispensation did much for Fairview, and its advancement after the coming of Mr. Shepherd was certainly more rapid than it had ever been before.
He undressed and got into bed, and was more of a Christian martyr than he had ever been before.
He had dined with the editor a week before at the same club-table, and had found him not less cordial than he had ever been before.
She wanted to tell him all about it; she yearned to "make it up to him," make him more happy than he had ever been before.
Their talk of the afternoon had made it more clear and more hard than it had ever been before.
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