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Example sentences for "yet more"

  • He calls me his cousin; but if he be mine, he is yet more Mr. Arnold's.

  • The holy apostle says that he who has a wife is divided, and he will be yet more divided, whilst the lot of his children becomes his own.

  • You must unfold that to me yet more definitely at some other time," he said, seeking to divert the conversation.

  • Her head was rather large and heavy, and the broad forehead was made yet more massive by a rich abundance of braided hair; a large curl on each side rested upon her shoulder and breast.

  • You see it was to some purpose that I studied theology for two years, until I came to see that though much cannot be effected, yet more is to be done by practising quackery on the body, than on the soul.

  • There is however an element in its origin that makes it yet more precious to me--the regard of our Lord to a wish of his mother.

  • I answer, "That person, with the evil thing cast out of him, will be yet more the person, for he will be his real self.

  • I have never seen more sadness nor yet more hatred on a human face than hers displayed.

  • What you enunciate now is yet more startling.

  • I myself have stood for slavery, but I am yet more devoted to democracy and to America than I am to the South and to slavery.

  • It was glorious to acquire a throne by justice, yet more glorious to prefer justice before a throne; the same virtue which made the one appear worthy of regal power exalted the other to the disregard of it.

  • You know already that I am not the idle powerless woman you once thought me; you shall know that I can do yet more.

  • It surprised him to see who his visitor was; yet more, when she advanced to him with her hand extended, saying a simple 'Good-bye.

  • Yea, the Turkish emperor would be yet more ready to serve him if it were not that my hero will have taken his empire from him and given it as a fief to the Roman emperor.

  • And when I was tired of music I would send for that furrier that had instructed me in the use of all arms in Paradise, and with him exercised myself to be yet more perfect.

  • Yet more intolerable, that he whom I have called brother should know me so little!

  • Yet more surprising as a coincidence, he actually became to the Emperor what he had been to Mahommed.

  • What is yet more romantic, he came away a lover in fact.

  • In the dreary night to see Nothing but the blood-red moon Go up and down into the sea; Or, in the loneliness of day, 50 To see the still seals only Solemnly lift their faces gray, Making it yet more lonely?

  • His arms and legs were those of a living skeleton; his poor idiotic face was made yet more repulsive by disease.

  • Partly with the thought of amusing the dolorous Jack, yet more to win laudation, he brought forth DOW a variety of casts and moulds and spread them on the table.

  • My master reproached me, and, yet more, he beat me; I felt shame and anger, and I went home with a full determination to commit the sin against the Holy Ghost.

  • Italian, yet more dear to thee Than sceptre, or than crook, The Art in which thine Italy Still charm'd thy glazing look!

  • And the time shall come when Rome, the greatest thing in all the world, shall be yet more ennobled by her woes.

  • Yet more conclusive is the fact that the ghost of Agrippina prophesies the fate of Nero in such a way as to make it certain that the author outlived the emperor and was acquainted with the facts of his death.

  • There remains, however, the companion case of Faukes, which is yet more extraordinary.

  • Yet more remarkable is a piece of information supplied by Bishop Goodman, his authority being the eminent lawyer Sir Francis Moore, who, says he, "is beyond all exception.

  • Yet more remarkable is the fact that it would appear to have remained undiscovered ever afterwards, and that no marks seem to have been left upon the wall which had been so roughly handled.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called out; citrus fruit; fancied that; general ticket; great quantity; great trees; heavenly life; its course; moral beauty; outward sign; rhymed prose; slay thee; thine enemy; this valley; tropical marine; what harm; what was going forward; white mantle; yet another; yet been; yet not; yet she; yet still; yet they; yet this; yet was