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Example sentences for "lowlier"

Lexicographically close words:
lowest; lowing; lowland; lowlander; lowlands; lowliest; lowlife; lowliness; lowly; lown
  1. But on the other hand the jaws found at La Naulette and Malarnaud suggest the former existence of a lowlier and more bestial form of humanity.

  2. But in the second place, Dr Sera concludes that the characters in question reveal the fact that of the two, the Gibraltar skull is quite distinctly the lowlier form.

  3. And herein, prominence will be given in the first place to such human remains as are assignable to the lowlier human type represented previously by the Spy skeletons.

  4. This criticism is based upon the conviction that many of the measurements upon which the results are dependent, assign to the Galley Hill skull a lowlier status than it originally possessed before it became distorted (posthumously).

  5. Ballad, go bear our prayer, and crave Pardon, because thy lowlier stave Can do this plea no right, but wrong.

  6. The qualities which make men great often make them miserable while they see around them those of lowlier station, and humbler abilities, more happy and useful than themselves.

  7. Just then the gardener passing by, they cried, “Take us from here, we pray you, and plant us in a bed of flowers yet lowlier than ourselves.

  8. Though often referred to as jungle, the lowlier growths at the upper edge of the forest zone have no resemblance to the true jungle that crowds the lowland forest.

  9. The tropics must be won by strong hands of the lowlier classes who are ignorant or careless of hygiene, and not by the khaki-clad robust young men like those who work at Panama.

  10. But in lowlier and less dangerous matters, such as we are now concerned with, one may dare to speak in plain English.

  11. The lowlier method seems safer for the little brother, as well as less conspicuous for persons who desire to avoid publicity until their enterprise has achieved success.

  12. I would sooner see daughter of mine wedded in a lowlier sphere.

  13. Bethink you that even the King himself, despite his fine phrases on divine right, has to sue something humbly to his good citizens of London and his lowlier subjects for those very supplies that insure his kingly pomp.

  14. The lowlier of intellect may lay out a table in their field, at which table the highest one shall sometimes be disposed to partake: want does not compel him.

  15. But I knew, when he entered that room, that he never would go forth again till he was borne where narrower walls and a lowlier roof should shut him in.

  16. I feel persuaded that in the matter of psychologizing, a professional is too apt to yield to the fascinations of the loftier regions of that great art, to the neglect of its lowlier walks.

  17. We should wonder; yet there are lowlier doors at which the same Jesus stands and knocks, and would fain come in and sup.

  18. Now the body is as real a part of humanity, as the soul and spirit are, although a much lowlier part.

  19. Kings have been born ere now in lowlier houses than this, and the favourite of the stars may rise even from a cottage.

  20. The solitary trail that led thither was the symbol of his search for happiness--alone, forgetful of life's lowlier ties, looking down upon the world in the cold abstraction of scornful knowledge.

  21. So will you make your lowlier life another Testament, written ever with Gospels and Epistles, and closing at last with an Apocalypse.

  22. But if the glory of the holy mount sets in a fairer light the cross and grave of Christ, may we not throw from the mirror of our thought some of its light upon our lowlier graves?

  23. There are the small attendant isles; there are the great peaks of Korkyra--not the lowlier peaks which gave city and island their later name--but the far mightier mountains which catch the eye as we approach the great island from the north.

  24. Another and a lowlier grave bears on its recording-stone a broken snatch of antique rhythm, interwoven with modern verse.

  25. He was a native Cornishman, born in a cottage that bordered on the moor, and in the lowlier ranks of labouring life.

  26. They love to emphasise their superior wealth by dubbing their lowlier brothers and sisters mestizos and mestizas.

  27. You see little or nothing of it among the lowlier Yucatecans, and it appears unknown among the Indians, who, as a rule, are wonderfully free of all skin troubles.

  28. His menu is of the simplest, monotonously the same from year end to year end; just that fare upon which his lowlier ancestors toiled in the sun to build pyramid and temple.

  29. It is not possible for a Japanese to perform a lowlier act of obeisance towards another than to be the bearer of the latter's sandals.

  30. Official posts being practically monopolized by the aristocratic classes, those born in lowlier families found little opportunity to win honour and emoluments.

  31. Young, beautiful by faith was he; He leaned the lower down toward me Even as I the lowlier knelt; Like some pure, golden cordial In secret felt.

  32. I would address My spirit to this theme in humbleness No tongue nor pen hath uttered or made known This mystery, and thus I do but guess At clearer types through lowlier patterns shown; Yet when did Love on earth forsake its own?


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowlier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.