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Example sentences for "rather does"

  • But that which is infected cannot heal a wound; rather does it need to be healed itself.

  • Further, a spiritual thing is not contained by a corporeal, even if it be therein; for the soul is not contained by the body; rather does it contain the body.

  • For no dutiful son honors that which dishonors his father, as the scourge with which he was scourged, or the gibbet on which he was hanged; rather does he abhor it.

  • Delight that is attendant upon the operation of the intellect does not hinder it, rather does it perfect it, as stated in Ethic.

  • Therefore it does not conduce to a more excellent charity, rather does it dispose one to a lower degree.

  • But sin does not excuse from sin, rather does it aggravate it.

  • For a subsequent symbol does not cancel a preceding one; rather does it expound it, as stated above (ad 2).

  • Hence he is not uplifted by great honors, because he does not deem them above him; rather does he despise them, and much more such as are ordinary or little.

  • In this composition the poet never seems to have had an eye to its representation on the stage; rather does he appear, in his youthful arrogance, to have scorned it for its insufficiency.

  • Nevertheless, he gladly gazes at her, and sighs the while; but he does not sigh so openly that his action is detected; rather does he stifle his sighs, though with difficulty.

  • Rather does it belong to that knight in whom dwells the greatest prowess in the world, my lord Gawain the Bold.

  • He knows not what this signifies, yet draws not back a step for that; rather does he ask the King, who was beside him at the right, what this can be.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beautiful flowers; during good; extremely curious; infant baptism; public and private life; rather broad; rather difficult; rather fancy; rather fine; rather firm; rather guess; rather large; rather late; rather like; rather long; rather more; rather narrow; rather nice; rather obtuse; rather short; rather soft; rather stout; rather than; rather the; rather thin; while above