He was now offered a pair of gloves, and with them, and the soothing nature of the ointment, his labour was less painful than he had anticipated, till their operations were interrupted by the rain.
Amongst the more humble followers of the court, the immortal Dunbar, who was neglected in his own day, and who has been scarce less neglected and overlooked by posterity, was conspicuous.
My nearly exhausted strength began to be renewed; I felt comparative comfort; yet I would have given all I possessed for my deliverance; my escape was not yet more certain, or my situation much less perilous.
Nor was my mother less delighted wi' her than I was.
I had said what I had to say on the matter proposed to my consideration; and nothing remained but to tell you, that I waked or slept; that I was more or less sick.
I now grow weary of solitude, and think of removing next week to Lichfield, a place of more society, but otherwise of less convenience.
At a time when he was less able than he had once been to sustain a shock, he was suddenly deprived of Mr. Levett, which event he thus communicated to Dr.
It appeared to me, that by being much more in company, and enjoying more luxurious living, he had contracted a keener relish of pleasure, and was consequently lessrigorous in his religious rites.
Between ourselves," said Williams, "the lessyou say about your friend the better.
I would hardly have given half to a less fair customer.
While Mastor was giving his master towels, and helping to dry and dress him, he was far lessattentive than usual, for he could not get the words he had heard from the overseer's lips out of his mind.
What we are doing for you is neither less nor yet much more than that.
It is precisely by following the fashion, however conspicuous it may be, that we are less remarkable than when we carefully dress far more simply and plainly--in short, differently to what it prescribes.
Von Buch, however, states (page 462) on the authority of La Peyrouse, that there are no less than seven volcanoes between these islands and Japan.
Thus far we have considered facts, which indicate, with more or less probability, the increase of the atoll in its different parts: there are others having an opposite tendency.
Now the gorge of Kadikoi opens out into a more or less level plain known as the plain of Balaclava, a mile north of the town.
He did so with less confusion than was expected; and by his new disposition rested his right upon the Kaitna, and his left upon the Suah and Assaye.
Although designated by Napoleon “a day of false manœuvres,” in reality there was less display of military tactics at Waterloo than in any general action we have on record.
Meanwhile, the other columns of the expedition had been operating with more or less success elsewhere.
Morning broke; the rain still continued, but with less severity than during the preceding night; the wind fell, but the day lowered, and the dawn of the 18th was gloomy and foreboding.
Though invariably checked by the light troops, still the army was hourly becoming less effective, every league reducing it both in numbers and resources.
I never felt less fear in my life,” wrote one of the Scots Greys after the fight; “I felt more like a devil than a man.
Here again both sides suffered heavily, but the forts in the main suffered less than the vessels, many of which were greatly disabled, the Albion and Arethusa being completely crippled.
In less than a minute the slope of the Redan was thickly covered with red coats.
Soon was the storming party under the walls and over them, with less loss than I thought possible.
Seems to me the more people's eddicated the less they's able to make a livin'.
In lessthan an hour's acquaintance with her, would he swear to her honesty?
But he expected and formulated nothing,--he was more or lessin a state of quiescence, awaiting adventures without either hope or fear.
He was suffering physical anguish at the moment--the old sharp pain at his heart to which he had become more or less wearily accustomed, had dizzied his senses for a space, but as the spasm passed he took Reay's hand and pressed it gently.
A small house is always cosiest, and often prettiest, and the fewer servants, the less trouble.
To enjoy the moment, and to make much of the moment while it lasts, is the very keynote of Nature's happiness, and David Helmsley found himself on this particular morning more orless in tune with the general sentiment.
They've more money than they ought to have,--it's only fair they should have less happiness.
Tired out by her long night journey and lack of sleep, she looked very white and weary and ill--and Angus Reay, sitting opposite to her, looked scarcely less worn and weary than herself.
What those writings did for Europe they may do, and we believe, will do, for the world in a greater or less degree.
To say the least, no woman thinks herselfless a woman than any other.
Thus we see that hand and eye, regardless of their superior office, labor carefully to clothe and adorn theless honorable members.
To make such lot the less grievous to you, Christ has gone before and left you an example of perfect patience under the most intense suffering, an example equaled nowhere in the world.
Less sensible would they be to such discomforts than to the deprivation of the thing they desire.
Though the offender does not look upon such conduct as robbery, it is none the less robbing divine honor, and is so regarded by God and angels and saints, and even by his own conscience.
Much less would it be possible for the Christian to injure or to do injustice to his neighbor for the sake of shamefully gaining some small advantage.
It would be less ridiculous to say we must be born of stones, after the idea of the heathen poets.
On the other hand, he does not despise me for being a less honored member.
While it is true that if sins of immorality are not renounced God will punish, yet punishment in such cases is for the most part temporal, these sins being less pernicious than such gross offenses as error in faith and doctrine.
There were fewer heavy floods from this time, though within less than three hundred years six fearful inundations swept over the land.
Hans started with a heavy heart, but since the heart was young, and in a boy's bosom, it set him whistling in less than five minutes.
True enough, in less than half an hour they had crossed a dyke of solid masonry, and were in the very heart of the great metropolis of the Netherlands--a walled city of ninety-five islands and nearly two hundred bridges.
The water-roads are nothing less than canals intersecting the country in every direction.
Footnote 11: The Dutch cent is worth less than half of an American cent.
In less than fifteen minutes two drowsy looking officers were in the room.
If he were less sullen he would find more sympathy in these warm young hearts.
Jacob and Ben had obtained permission to go on a long skating journey--no less a one than from Broek to the Hague, the capital of Holland, a distance of nearly fifty miles!
Sweeping, mopping and scrubbing form a passion with Dutch housewives, and to soil their spotless mansions is considered scarcely less than a crime.
It was a Japanese spread, marvelous in texture as well as in its variety of brilliant coloring, and worth, as Ben afterward learned, not less than three hundred dollars.
It was well that the boys hastened to their abodes on that bright winter evening, for in less than an hour afterward, the saint made his appearance in half the homes of Holland.
Even if they had suspected otherwise it is doubtful if they would have acknowledged it because they considered it lessof an ignominy to be held up by the notorious Coyote than by a bandit of lesser reputation.
In less than two miles the leather was worn through upon the hard rock, and he got down and removed the remnants.
They now were less than half a mile apart, and the fugitive suddenly turned his horse due north, straight toward the hills, and sent a volley of shots whistling in his pursuer's direction.
You'll have a chance to talk in less than a minute," said Rathburn calmly.
Also, he assumed that the hunt would be less spirited during the night.
Nor did they possess the trail knowledge, the tricks which Rathburn knew, and which the latter, more or less to his surprise, found that the man ahead knew.
An' don't overlook the fact that I'm more or less in earnest about things in general," he added significantly.
They dragged him to the shore, and there ascertained that not less than eight balls passed through his body.
Here we witnessed a scene, which, had it been less serious, might have excited laughter.
Illustration: Fording the river Platte] The second difficult passage was over the North Fork, which is less wide, but deeper and more rapid than the Southern.
Here, I have much to relate that is not less edifying than serious; but before I enter upon the chapter of noble actions, [XCVI] I must conclude what I had commenced in my preceding letter.
Samples of this pottery, more or less perfect, are shown everywhere on the river.
As we proceeded up this river, scenes more or less picturesque opened upon our view.
Consider the singular situation of these men--a thousand miles from the Atlantic shores, surrounded by savages and by their own countrymen scarce less ignorant, and separated by pathless mountains from a community of civilized man.
In less than half an hour all hearts were united and moved by the same sentiments.
The Indian is not less proud of his horse, the companion of all his excursions and of all his dangers, and the friend to which he becomes extremely attached.
As she gets used to hearing the cheepings from under another hen she'll take the next ones that come with less mistrust.
Tom Mayberry, seems to me as I remember it, you looked much less plain favored to-day than common.
A gain of over thirty percent in red corpuscles in less than a month.
I don't see how anybody with a bad liver can have any religion at all, much less a second blessing.
It's a wonder she feels like she have got any ease at all, much less a second blessing.
It was a society less provincial than that of more than one shire that was nearer to London by a thousand leagues.
A less impetuous man than MacLean, noting the signs of weakness, fatigue, and impatience, would have waited, and on the morrow have been listened to with equanimity.
I think that others less wise than you may also beless blind.
Everywhere were bustle and gayety,--gayety none the less for the presence of thirty or more ministers of the Established Church.
He turned again to Evelyn, but when he spoke it was less to her than to himself.
There were many things in the world of other people which she did not understand; one thing more or less made no great difference.
Down went the town-bred lady until the skirt of her blue-green gown lay in folds upon the buttercups; down went the ladies opposite in curtsies as profound, if less exquisitely graceful.
And Audrey, who in her workaday world was always blamed, could not know that the praise that was so sweet was less wholesome than the blame.
These woods are very beautiful," said Haward at last, with his gaze upon her, "but if the land were less level it were more to my taste.
I have toasted at the Kit-Kat many a piece of brocade and lace less fair than yon bit of Quaker gray that cost you a broken head.
The latter is doubtless correct; for an engraver, who copies precisely what is before him, is less likely to err than a transcriber or editor.
Every one invites his damsel, and joyously they enter play-gardens of a little less brilliancy than the former.
Though Domesday Book speaks of one hundred and forty-two burgages in Chichester and a charter of Henry I.
They have been credited by history with the change from unarmed to armed trade on the part of the company; but as a matter of fact both of them were loth to quarrel with the Mogul.
The village lies in a branch of the Roding valley, fragments of Hainault Forest lying to the south and east, bordering the village of Chigwell Row.
It is the trade centre of a very fertile section of the Washita Valley, whose principal products are Indian corn, cotton, fruits and vegetables and live-stock.
Froebel, but more recent writers have carried it much further, notably W.
He was now a frequent visitor, welcome to the master of the house, but less so to the ladies, who suspected him of having been the prompter of the factory scheme.
And again that pain in the breast, but lessclearly felt, for his strength was exhausted, his nervous energy spent.
An hour later came the tailor, and Fink himself determined the cut of the new suit with a technical precision which impressed the tailor no less than it did Anton.
He manifests even less prudence in the conduct of these speculations than in the cultivation of his ancestral acres, and the inevitable result ensues that an ever-increasing debt at length necessitates the sale of his estate.
Behind them stood the gentlemen, with cunning faces and hands in their pockets, altogether much less imposing and agreeable to behold.
You have too good an opinion of my information and my faculties; I can be of less assistance to you than you suppose, but what I can, that I will do in any and every possible way.
He began to suspect that his principal was more selfish and less kindly than he had hitherto supposed.
Men areless influenced by ideal impressions, and more ruled by their own interest, than your juvenile wisdom apprehends.
The baron sprang up, not less horrified than Ehrenthal.
Schröter, and yearly protested against the expectation of its arrival, by which the good woman's household purchases were more or less influenced.
When less is needed than what is paid for, the balance due the patient will be returned to him with the necessary medicine.
There also will be found evidences of great +nervous wear and tear, and seminal losses+, more or less constant.
These two diseases are probably less understood than almost any other equally common.
Our physicians hold no pecuniary interest in the Agency, and hence prescribe for each case solely on its merits, having nothing to gain by selling less or more to any one under their care.
Generous indeed, Mr. Canker; know then that I shall insist upon an entire Change not only in your Conduct but even in your way of thinking which will make you more agreeable to yourself and less hateful to everybody else.
Dear Doctor Leatherhead, hold your Tongue; the less you talk, the more it will be to the purpose, I am sure.
She was by no means certain that Austria and Germany were going to win the war and was even less sure that Austria would be willing, in case of her victory, to give up a foot of territory.
The Norwegians desired to remain an independent country, and they loved the Swedes even less than they loved the Danes.
The little British army, which was less than one-eighth of the force of the Allied side, probably furnished the factor that defeated the Germans.
The less important barons swore homage to the great barons, and the knights, squires, retainers, and yeomen swore homage to the lesser barons.
The income of the average family in Great Britain is less than $500 in a year, and the amount of money that they can save out of this sum is very small.
Are people less likely to protest against war if their forefathers have fought many wars?
Why is it that after nations become civilized, people need lessland to live on?
In fact less than one-third of the Bulgarians were living within the boundaries finally agreed upon by the congress.
Being warriors by trade and having nothing else to do, they saw that, if the great war were postponed much longer, the chances of Germany's winning it would grow less and less.
Her people had even less political freedom than the inhabitants of Austria and Germany.
In less than two years, they had paid off the last cent of the one billion dollar indemnity, and the German troops were obliged to go home.
Why did the Emperor haveless power than many kings?
Thus a seaport in Greece, which has changed hands recently, has no less than five names.
Now, to their dismay, the German birth-rate began to grow less and they saw the population of Russia growing larger by 20% every ten years.
The Bishop of Castello, who had been sent to Constantinople to plead for help in the reconquest of Dalmatia, was no less successful.
Catherine and Mary Magdalen, is one of the most characteristic of Giovanni's productions; less virile perhaps than 610, but rich and warm in colour and gentle in feeling.
The sacred altar-picture becomes less conventional, the figures are less cramped, the colours brighten, the decoration is richer.
He was bluntly told by Vettor Cappello to think lessof his skin and more of the honour and welfare of the land.
In less than six weeks a "holy league" of France, Venice and the Papacy had been signed at Cognac for the "liberation" of Italy from the Imperialists.
By a first expedition he reduced their chiefs for a while to submission; a second was less happy in its results.
Less than fifteen years since could be seen the old episcopal throne and semi-circular tiers of seats worn by generations of Christian pastors[120] as they sat amid their clergy facing the people.
Those who received not less than twelve votes were to be members up to Michaelmas, when, after being subjected to a new ballot, they were to serve for a further period of one year.
The Latin army was much reduced by desertion, and it is said Brienne had lessthan two hundred knights and four hundred footmen to oppose an army of many tens of thousands.
By a brilliant manoeuvre he got part of his fleet between the Venetians and the shore, and attacking front and rear routed them with terrible loss, no less than six thousand being made prisoners.
Plague carried off Morosini in less than a year, and in October 1382 Antonio Venier became Doge.
Ruskin estimated the number of figures to be not less than 500.
With the laugh the battle was won; what might have been in less skilful hands an awkward incident passed off amid genial laughter.
Hasn't the remotest effect upon the human mind, stillless upon deliberate action of House.
For every hair of my head there will be one less habitant in this province.
The crowd melted away like snow, and they hurried not the less because the stone which some one had thrown at Ferrol had struck a lad in the head, and brought him senseless and bleeding to the ground.
Then, if it became known that he had given information to the authorities, his life would be less uncertain than it was just now.
Now she was at her best (he did not deceive himself), but in ten years or less the effects of her early life would show in many ways.
But the narrative, and in a less degree the parables, they felt free to work over as they would.
Luke, on the other hand, could scarcely have found the saying in his source with this application to the disciples, and have changed it to its much less pointed and personal form in his own Gospel.
But this theory seems to the writer to be much more complicated and less probable than the one here advocated.
But if Mark used any form of Q, it was not QMt or QLk, but some much simpler, more primary, and doubtless less extended, form.
It is perhaps explained by the fact that Luke's blending of his material from different sources and his freer treatment of it render Q less identifiable with him.
His form of it is the apparently less natural one, "Does the lamp come in order that it may be put under a bushel?
Much less can any reason be assigned for Matthew's omission of the sixteen unduplicated sayings ascribed to QLk.
But from the treatment accorded to Mark by Matthew and Luke, respectively, it is to be expected that Matthew would omit less of the Q material that lay before him than would Luke; and this presumption is confirmed by the results obtained.
The habits of Matthew and Luke, respectively, in their treatment of Mark, render it practically certain that Matthew would feel less at liberty to omit Q material than Luke.
The practice of the place, if I am rightly informed, generally amounts to not less than £1,000 per annum, for which the appointed physician has an exclusive privilege.
Perhaps we have grown less scrupulous since then; but at all events it would be difficult for anybody nowadays to find anything but good-natured fun in that famous scene.
And now he had less of the old high spirits that had enabled him to laugh off the cares of debt.
My design succeeded, and in less than six days some were penitent, and all attentive.
Carver," cried Trimalchio, noless delighted with the artifice practised upon us, and the carver appeared immediately.
We Were in the midst of these delicacies when, to the sound of music, Trimalchio himself was carried in and bolstered up in a nest of small cushions, which forced a snicker from the less wary.
Though we wondered greatly, we believed none the less implicitly and, kissing the table, we besought the night-hags to attend to their own affairs while we were returning home from dinner.
The Sale boat'll be along in lessthan an hour now.
It tells in simple language all about the great liners and thoseless showy vessels of the Mercantile Marine whose services have proved to be of as vital importance to the Empire as those of the Royal Navy itself.
He was a dour old man, farming a good piece of land near the township; and no person in the district was lesslikely to do another a favour.
Garth and Aileen scarcely ate meat at all: Tom ate less than he had ever done, and felt all the better for his change of food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "less" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
