Then the god is transformed into a Semitic Baal, and with the political rise of the neighbouring city of Babylon is degraded into an attendant and retainer of the mightier god.
Our own age may seem the best to us; so will their mightier ages seem to them.
If our own friends, men like ourselves, can sometimes return to tell us of love and hope, a mightier Spirit may well have used the eternal laws with a more commanding power.
In this case the pen is reallymightier than the sword as an instrument for cutting the ground out from under the feet of aspiring genius.
She discovers that Varus had hitherto baffled her power by means of some magical antidote; and she resolves to prepare a mightier charm, that nothing from earth or hell shall resist.
In Lucretius, on the other hand, zeal is mightierthan sympathy, and scorn mightier than humour.
And never through the wide world yet there rang A mightier summons!
Take heed, for now on haunted ground they tread; There bowed a mightier war lord to his fall: Fear!
For, the mightierman is, the more absolutely does he need the support of a mightier Man than he can ever be.
Nor could he understand that mightier powers than he could master worked against him, and even used his efforts to bring forth contrary results.
But the story has a ‘mightier magnet still,’ in the healthy tone which pervades it, in its feminine delicacy of thought and diction, and in the truly womanly tenderness of its sentiments.
Ye strive the ruffian types of Might 'gainst law, and truth, and Right, Now quail beneath a sturdier Power, and own a mightier Might!
See also that there is peace kept in your fields, lest another mightier than thou shouldst come and replace you, the better to set all in proper order again.
Your marking sticks are mightier than their swords, and as Royal Scribe, surely you are not so afraid of what a few 'chicken scratches' in the clay on your part will reap.
A "centripetal force" affecting the whole planet as it cools, seems a mightier cause than is required to produce wrinkles of such insignificant size.
That the Mightier One referred to was none other than Jesus the Christ is thus set forth in the words of John: "Behold the Lamb of God.
This he characterized as the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, ordained to follow his administration, and to be given by that Mightier One, whose preeminence John delighted to proclaim.
John further declared that the watery baptism in which he officiated would be followed by a higher endowment to be administered by a Mightier One than himself, and this he designated the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost.
But this rational sentiment, that to many would seem a more solid basis for a happy union than most paroxysms of love, never rose to the height of a passionmightier than all reason.
And yet, in the solitude of this quiet, forgotten life, I feel that I am mightier than the mightiest, a match for fate.
Patience is strong, and strong is faith, But mightier still the power of death; Thy flesh is weaker than thy pain, Vain is the struggle, all in vain.
Our wandering wishes urge and fret, But circumstance is mightier yet, And curbs and checks the restless will, And bids the impatient heart be still.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.
No; but to rejoice that the hands of those who defend a just and beneficent government are mightier than the hands that assaulted it.
And now the martyr is moving in triumphal march, mightier than when alive.
Prelate, The Saints are one, but those of Normanland Are mightier than our own.
Never shall any man say that I, that Tostig Conjured the mightier Harold from his North To do the battle for me here in England, Then left him for the meaner!
The more the love, the mightier is the prayer; The more the love, the more acceptable The sacrifice of both your loves to heaven.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight; for there standeth one among you whom ye know not; and he is mightier than I, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Baptist declared his inferiority to the Mightier One, who was to succeed and supersede him; and a more effective illustration would be difficult to frame.
The portentous prediction of the Baptist-prophet had entered upon the stage of fulfilment: "One mightier than I cometh .
John's Inferiority to theMightier One He Proclaimed.
But, left in prison, he may have become despondent, and may have permitted himself to wonder whether that Mightier One had forgotten him.
In the light of later events it appears that at this time John did not know that Jesus was the Christ, the Mightier One for whom he waited and whose forerunner he knew himself to be.
XII Mightier storms than this are brewed on earth That pricks the crystal lake with summer showers.
No petty schemer sees the larger plan, No privy tyrant brooks the mightier law, But lash in hand rides forth a partisan Of freedom: base, without the touch of awe, He poisoned first the blood his poniard was to draw.
We must try a mightier spell," he said, "for hostile forces are in conjunction against us.
They've got their swords sharpened for him, and he'll discover an instance when he gets over there in which the sword is mightier than the pen.
I wish you could have heard a debate between Shakespeare and Caesar on the resolution, "The Pen is mightier than the Sword;" it was immense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mightier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
