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Example sentences for "pettier"

Lexicographically close words:
petted; petter; petticoat; petticoated; petticoats; pettiest; pettifogger; pettifoggers; pettifogging; pettiness
  1. That is love's grandeur: still, in pettier love The nice eye can distinguish grade and grade.

  2. That was the seduction I had escaped by the uninspired resistance of my pettier soul.

  3. Pettier than an insect, and more obstinate than a mule, he had also the superior, sleek humility of a 'chosen one.

  4. What I meant was that woman has degenerated, not through passion but through ages of the exercise of her pettier and meaner qualities.

  5. In the present stage of the world's development it was to be expected that the pettier characteristics of human nature would predominate; and perhaps the intellectually exclusive would not have it otherwise.

  6. Faith, if you want to know who I am; I'm Pettier Connor the mower, that never seen to-morrow.

  7. But wasn't I match for Pettier Donovan, that would brake a stone for the marrow *--Eh?

  8. St. Pettier himself wouldn't make a hand of her.

  9. June the 4th, 18-- I certify that I have made and calculated this oath for Misther Pettier Connell, Merchant, and that it is strictly and arithmetically proper and correct.

  10. Pettier accordingly furnished them with the liquor, and got a promise that Condy would certainly pay him at mass on the following Sunday, which was only three days distant.

  11. Yet, while all recollection of his former, pettier self was gone, he began presently to remember--men.

  12. The feverish distress, unrest, and vanity of modern life was due to the distance men had traveled from the soul of the world, away from large simplicity into the pettier state they deemed so proudly progress.

  13. A noble, gracious life stirred in him then which the pettier human world denied.

  14. Hamilton by no means was blind to the pettier side of human nature, but he despised it; instead of truckling and manipulating, he would scatter it before him or grind it to pulp.


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