Had it been only a question of human speed perhaps such would have been the wisest thing he could do; but a moment's reflection told him how much swifter than any foot of man was the bullet of a rifle.
The two warriors on the beach were more deeply impressed than any of their companions, with the notion that some "medicine charm" was connected with this extraordinary affair.
He is reputed in our army to have killed more with his single arm in battle, than any known in Roman history.
If Palmyra falls it will give you Julia, and it will be some consolation even in the fall of a kingdom, that it brings happiness to two, whom friendship binds closer to me than any others.
A little common education in cleanliness, where it is wanting, would probably be much more improving, as well as wholesome, than any amount of education in fine art.
Honest courage is of greater worth than any amount of grace; purity is better than elegance; and cleanliness of body, mind, and heart, than any amount of fine art.
Alfred's blood boiled, but he knew it must not boil over.
And in fact David fell into a state of weakness and exhaustion, and kept muttering unintelligibly.
Persuaded that a residence in England would be more agreeable to me than any other, she frequently spoke of Mr. Hume who was then at Paris, of his friendship for me, and the desire he had of being of service to me in his own country.
However, a woman, who at that time was desirous of my acquaintance, became much more solidly attached to me than any of those whose curiosity I had excited: this was the Marchioness of Crequi, niece to M.
We passed in conversations in the shade the most charming and delightful hours, more so than any I had hitherto enjoyed.
This composition, which, for what reason I knew not, has been less spoken ofthan any of my other writings, is the only one of its kind.
You have had the experience, and understand the business much better than any man I have.
But I have studied and read as much as any body of my age, in leisure hours and nights; and I have written more for the press, probably, than any one of my age in Boston.
Franklin read his paper, which was more elaborate and exhaustive than any thing of the kind ever published at that time.
They were cleaner and more healthy than anytribe we had seen; and were extremely cheerful, although reserved in some respects.
The sides of the hills were steeper, and their summits sharper, than any we had crossed.
The young men were cleaner is their persons and were better featured than any we had seen, some of them having smooth hair and an almost Asiatic cast of countenance.
These bear gave me a stronger evidence of the various coloured bear of this country being one speceis only, than any I have heretofore had.
Sides of the bough, Streight, their extremities pointing obliquely towards the extremities of the bough and more thickly placed than in either of the other Species; gibbous and flexable but more stiffthan any except No.
She will be very light, more so than any vessel of her size that I ever saw.
Ordway who is but little wose and not very ill tho more so than any of the others.
The works of Æschylus have suffered more by time, than any of the ancient tragedians.
The vice of covetousness is what enters deeper into the soul than any other.
The comparative degree, on the contrary, requires that the object spoken of be not included among those with which it is compared; as, "Eve was fairer than any of her daughters.
Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any writer.
More so than any in the world," she affirmed, with the religious fervor which always characterizes her tone when she speaks of Paris.
They taught us the Polish mazurka--a dance which has more go to it than any dance I ever saw.
Poles and Russians treat their women more nearly the way our American men treat us than any nation we have encountered so far.
I ride better than most people and have spent or wasted more time on it than any woman of intellect ought to.
London society cares more for money than any other in the world, as I know to my cost!
Mr. Gladstone was the dominating politician of the day, and excited more adoration and hatred than any one.
The reporters will find Maria quicker than any detective I can put my hand on.
The darkness thundered as though informing him that graver forces than any he had ever imagined had definitely grasped him.
More," the detective replied, "than any jury in the land would ask.
I'd rather have that house, old and horrid as it is, than any house in the town.
He had yet to learn that love can be crueller than any friendship, than any indifference, than any hate: nothing is so exacting, so inexorable, as love.
She seems to me sometimes to be more literally a child of God, in the true and complete sense of the word 'child,' than any one I ever knew.
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