The mystery of Tanith ranged in the depths of your eyes that were more limpid than the globules of rivers.
He told her, further, that she was more beautiful than the moon, better than the wind of morning or than the face of a guest.
The chemist who perceives a chemical process, the connoisseur a picture, the musician a symphony, perceive them with more vigorous attention than the layman, but the actual attention may be greater with the latter.
Then it is the business of the judge to interpret the physician's report psychologically--and the judge knows neither more nor less psychology, according to his training, than the physician.
The ulterior norm to which appeal is taken is the instinct of workmanship, which is an instinct more fundamental, of more ancient prescription, than the propensity to predatory emulation.
The men of the upper middle class commonly take a more complacent attitude towards devout observances than the men of the artisan class.
Impossible for a place to have a better name, sir, than the Walley of Eden.
If he will take the trouble to look about him, he may find a greater number of confirmations of the fact in the occurrences of any single day, than the steam-gun can discharge balls in a minute.
I have seen a grammarian tower and plume himself over a single line in Horace, and show more pride, in the construction of one ode, than the author in the composure of the whole book.
There is in these works of nature, which seem to puzzle reason, something divine; and hath more in it than the eye of a common spectator doth discover.
Thou art more glorious and excellentthan the mountains of prey.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Forsooth, after the slaying I would have had him take the lordship of Utterbol, but he would not, so I must take it perforce or be slain, and let a new master reign there little better than the old.
And when he had eaten, he felt stronger and therefore was life more grievous to him, and when he thought what he should do, still one thing seemed more irksome than the other.
Said Bull: "How much worse do we than the chapmen by his debtor, and the lord of the manor by his villein?
Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, Than the Queen's life?
Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount Our baleful news and at each word's deliverance Stab poinards in our flesh till all were told, The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
Madam, he comforts you Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.
This is simply saying that the negro mind has been more crushed and debased than the white.
We have more than the rights of common men;--we have the claim of an injured race for reparation.
The Pehlvi, he says, is much more flowing, and less overcharged with vowels, than the Zend.
Like the modesty affected by Augustus, the state maintained by Diocletian was a theatrical representation; but it must be confessed, that of the two comedies, the former was of a much more liberal and manly character than the latter.
The cork-drawing seemed to make a greater impression on the gentleman's mind, than the raven's power of speech, and was indeed particularly adapted to his habits and capacity.
Wherever one looked taller and fuller than the rest, I asked myself,--"Is this it?
I won't say that this rushing huckleberry hail-storm has not more music for me than the "Anvil Chorus.
A mote in my eye is bigger to me than the biggest of Dr.
The clash of blades in battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on the pavement.
The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
The young blush much more freely than the old, but not during infancy,[2] which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.
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