He dreams that Neaera is false to him DI meliora ferant, nec sint mihi somnia uera, quae tulit hesterna pessima nocte quies.
Acclinis falsis animusmeliora recusat=--The mind attracted by what is false has no relish for better things.
Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme, et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our official duties is characterised by greater vigour and alacrity, but towards the end they flag.
Meliora ran up straightway; for though she was something too forward, and could be pert when she would, yet was she good-natured enough when kindly used.
I could not but think that some part of that buffet was owing to us three, though Meliora had it all.
And Ma--" Poor Meliora got no further, for Dame Isabel gave her a buffet on the side of her head that nigh knocked her off the form.
These words which Ovid ascribes to Medea, Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor, imply that the morally good is mastered by the agreeably good, which makes more impression on souls when they are disturbed by the passions.
And a little later Ovid makes her add: Sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud suadet; video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.
Then and there, Meliora unfolded all she knew and all she guessed of the girl's history.
One day, when Mrs. Rothesay was gone out, Meliora came in to have a chat with her young favourite, and found poor Olive sitting by herself, quietly crying.
Thither the little stranger was despatched, by means of a succession of contrivances which almost drove the simple Meliora crazy.
Meliora explained that she believed Olive's family was Scottish, and that her father was a Captain Angus Rothesay.
Meliora accounted for it when, from behind a sheltering espalier, she heard him address one of them as "my lord.
If the old painter of Woodford Cottage was an ascetic and a misanthrope never was the "milk of human kindness" so redundant in any human heart as in that of his excellent little sister, Miss Meliora Vanbrugh.
But her hero-worship was so intense, and her womanly patience so all-forgiving, that she bore his occasional strange humours almost as meekly as Meliora herself.
Meliora ran to the mantelpiece, and brought one to her brother.
He passed Meliora by, and walked up to Miss Rothesay.
They went and stood before the picture, he and Olive; Meliora stealing after her brother's footsteps, noiseless but constant as his shadow.
I beg your pardon, Miss Rothesay," muttered the old painter, in a slight tone of concession, which encouraged Meliora to another gentle attack.
Miss Melioralooked as if she could have sunk into the earth!
Olive and Meliora were both very busy--too busy to have time for regrets.
Miss Barrett along with port wine--Dii meliora piis, and, among them to Yours every where, and at all times yours R.
Nullus pudor est ad meliora transive,—it is no shame to change that which is not so good for that which is better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meliora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
