Why this was so, whether Art took a hint from Politics, or had withdrawn her more intimate manifestations to await likelier times, is a question it were long to answer.
When one has been wronged by the outer world, the sooner he gets back to the bosom of his family, the likelier will he be to bear it well; and as soon as the Champagne was finished, I made off.
We looked upon the chosen spirits of three thousand years, and more, as likelier to have left things worthy of our heed and sequence, than the half-taught men who spring up now, and by dint of smashing make a row.
He had sufficient reticence to avoid sounding his challenge in the Law Courts; nor could he well go into the Houses of Parliament with a trumpet, though to come to a tussle with the nation's direct representatives did seem the likelier method.
But the delivery of a letter into Master Ripton's hands, furnished her with other and likelier appearances to study.
She had meant to set the captive free, at any hazard to herself; but she was prepared to find her scheme thwarted in some such way, and she had a likelier plan ready framed against the failure of the first.
She's no light sins to carry, an' wakefulness wod hev shown a likelier sperrit.
Who likelier to be a witness to such a will than the Prince's chaplain?
Mrs Rhymer, who, as we have seen, was likelier than anyone to recognize it, would not swear it was the green purse that had been in Mrs Duncomb's black box.
That makes it all the likelier that some undesirable young woman somewhere may have managed to get hold of him.
Try both: of the two, she was likelier to be going to Southampton.
Likelier across these flats afar, These sulky levels smooth and free, The drums shall crash a waltz of war And Death shall dance with Liberty!
Likelier the barricades shall flare Slaughter below and smoke above, And death and hate and hell declare That men have found a thing to love.
And when the pedants bade us mark What cold mechanic happenings Must come; our souls said in the dark, "Belike; but there arelikelier things.
One is by far the likelier in itself, because one thing must needs be more probable than many things: additionally; Wisdom and Power are always economical, and where one will suit the purpose, superfluities are rejected.
There was no present Symptom in either of these Cases, whence a Physician might suppose them likelier to die at that Instant, than for some Hours before.
A much likelier Method of succeding on this Point would certainly be, to convince the deluded People, that it will cost them less to be honestly and judiciously treated, than to suffer under the Hands of these Executioners.
A mountebank's child who helps her father to earn shillings when she is six years old--a child that inherits a singing throat from a long line of choristers and learns to sing as it learns to talk, has a likelier beginning.
But there was no denying that the attractiveness of the image made it likelier to last.
A student of imperfect memory but not of defective intuition might pardonably assign such couplets, on hearing them cited, to the master-hand itself; but such a student would be likelier to refer them to the sonnetteer than to the dramatist.
Now to my thinkin' you was a deal likelier punished because you'd forgot your duty to your neighbour an' neglected to pay up the insurance.
It's a deal likelier to be the Fat Woman or the Two-headed Calf.
No likelier symptom of its being soon about to leave the world has come to light in my time.
But likelier than not, my face is not becoming--to me.
Likelier than not I've saved my climax for its proper place.
But besides that, I shall here speak of myself only in relation to the subject of these precedent discourses, and shall belikelier thereby to fall into the contempt than rise up to the estimation of most people.
Take a leaf and chew it in your mouth, and you will quickly find it likelier to cause a sore mouth and throat than to cure it.
Your lordship held good cards," answered John Garnet; "my luck is the likelier to turn.
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