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Example sentences for "saner"

Lexicographically close words:
sandwichensis; sandwiches; sandy; sane; sanely; sanest; sanft; sang; sangar; sangaree
  1. She pondered, and had almost concluded that the latter was the saner explanation when--watching--she saw a sudden spasm cross his face of such agony that she caught her lip fiercely between her teeth to stifle an exclamation.

  2. It was better to appear obtuse than to concur too heartily in fears, a recollection of which in a saner moment he knew would be distasteful to her.

  3. All the Unionists of the saner type admit the common sense of the principle, and they say that if Ireland were Scotland they would have nothing to say against an Irish Parliament for purely local purposes.

  4. I would let these suspicions wear themselves out, as in time they are sure to do with the growth of further knowledge and of that saner outlook on Imperial and Irish affairs, which collaboration towards common objects brings with it.

  5. Possibly it is; for the centuries have been a weary apprenticeship in misgovernment rather than in constitutional methods; but all the more surely does the long experiment stand condemned, and it may well give place to saner methods.

  6. The saner constitutional lawyers have come to the conclusion that the idea of separation has no foundation in fact, and could not, if mooted, have the slightest hope of success.

  7. Moreover, we are not likely to make great advances on the road of strict justice until we acquire saner conceptions of welfare, and a more effective notion of brotherly love.

  8. And there has never been a time when the greater and saner part of public opinion did not look upon overcapitalisation as at the least abnormal and irregular.

  9. Such conditions as these are mediaeval, or Oriental at best, and it is to be hoped that the newer education which is now influencing Spain may help to bring about a better and saner view of the social intercourse of men and women.

  10. Unless there is, quite generally, a saner perspective in the social mind and until values are reëstimated, the solution of the rural school problem and indeed of many problems of rural life is well-nigh hopeless.

  11. Let us see, then, what some of the appeals to this saner stratum of human nature, in behalf of rural life, are.

  12. Imagine what a satirist of saner days would have made of the daily life of a child of six, who was actually admitted to be mad on the subject of his own health.

  13. If any tradition of these things remains in a saner age, they will probably be remembered as a mysterious religious order of fakirs or dancing dervishes, who shaved their heads and fasted in honour of Hercules or Castor and Pollux.

  14. They faced each other and Ringfield was not the cooler nor the saner of the two.

  15. The history of Saracen culture is the history of the attainment of saner ideas and a higher plane of thought.

  16. The whole incident in her life as time wore on assumed an aspect bizarre, incredible, as the follies of a night of madness appear in the saner light of morning.

  17. On the contrary, she seems more of a person than she was; she has clearer, saner views of life; she has made her mistake and profited by it.

  18. It is not easy to see that these two exploits, judged from a strictly rational standpoint, are any saner than the acts above suggested.

  19. For the joy of these works is older than sorrow, their extravagance is saner than wisdom, their love is stronger than death.

  20. Yet that was what the carrier had done; he was never saner in his life.

  21. I've always hoped so, in my saner moments.

  22. It will open up the way to a saner and more beautiful future.

  23. I will add no comment, except to record my belief that under a saner social organisation such crimes against love would be impossible.

  24. The opposing schools, represented by Lajard and Windischmann,(3095) have been discredited or reconciled by saner methods of criticism, and wider archaeological knowledge.

  25. In Regulus we seem to see the type of character which, had fortune raised him to the throne, would have made perhaps a saner Caligula, and an even more eccentric Nero.

  26. What are your saner dreams but less troublesome dreams,--lazier dreams?

  27. But he answered steadily, "I have other dreams now, saner dreams.

  28. When a man's temperament becomes surcharged with a sentiment of this color, you may look for him to do things which had not even bordered his existence in saner moods.

  29. Firmly she said it, and my saner judgment told me she was right.

  30. This is a thing as little for the good of the saner German people as it is for the rest of the world, but it is the only way in which militant imperialism can survive at all.

  31. In other words, we shall take advantage of such measure of detachment as we do possess, to take the lead in a saner organization of western civilization; we shall become the pivot and centre of a new world State.

  32. It was our peculiar shame that he had rejected us when he had attained to something saner than sanity.

  33. Had they been blessed with the same vision as he, they would not have opposed but co-operated with him, by introducing into their own constitutions saner laws such as some of those in the Code Napoleon.

  34. Why, suh, one glance at their Sunday newspapers ought to prove to any right thinkin' man that it's safer an' saner to die in South Carolina than to live in New York!

  35. Bewildered by a mental picture of a Laurence with ruffled neck-feathers and steel spurs, I hurriedly changed the subject to the saner and safer one of our own immediate affairs.

  36. If such poems as 'David' issue from England's very madhouses, what must be the writings of its saner and nobler poetic souls?

  37. No man was saner in the adjustment of a necessary compromise in legislation; but no man was ever more innocent of the spirit of Nothingarianism.

  38. And for that problem he, in saner mood, began to feel that the right solution was to do something and so become in his own person a somebody, instead of being mere son of a somebody.

  39. He was saner than most men have the strength of mind to be on the best day of their whole lives.

  40. The speech awoke an echo in all hearts, voicing, as it did, the worship of strong men, the movement against generosity, which had at that time already commenced among the saner members of the community.


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