They did little more than make the gloom visible.

Infinitely more ingenuity did the great comic poet of antiquity display, when he selected the Scarabaeus; as the food which had already served the purposes of digestion with the Rider, was still capable of affording nutrition to the animal: [Greek: nun d'att'an autos kataphagoo ta sitia.

"I'll smash your 'ead in if you put them lights out!" Mike had conquered his own fit of nerves, not without some exercise of will, and had not given any notice to his companion's, which was considerably more acute; perhaps the constant use of that roomy flask had contributed to that, though lack of a liberal education (such as Mike had enjoyed and misused) must also bear its share of responsibility.

I, for my part, had scarcely more command of myself.

The invalid, whose health is impaired by excessive labor, but who is yet able to exercise in the open air, will find a visit to these beautiful lakes and pleasant rivers, and a fortnight or a month's stay among them, vastly more efficacious in restoring strength and tone to his system than all the remedial agencies of the most skillful physicians.

If the children annoy him he goes to his club; if the wife dies, why there are plenty more women for the asking.

We are perfectly contented to form no opinion upon the subject; but if compelled to express one, we should say that this last supposition (which is no novelty) possessed decidedly more likelihood than any other.

His Majesty recognized the necessity of "bestowing upon the people, by means of internal organization, incomparably more advantages than it had had under the sway of Sweden."

A house with a south or south-west aspect, is lighter, warmer, drier, and consequently more healthy, than one facing the north or north-east.

The three years at length passed, and Carl Proch returned home,a trifle more sedate, perhaps, but the same noble, manly fellow.

They had always lived near to the ground, for the husband's earnings at the loom were seldom more than 7s.

Everyone must have observed a phenomenon of the London streets which becomes continually more noticeable.

The girl had planned to bring him to her side this evening and intended to exert her strongest fascinations to lure him back to his former allegiance; so her annoyance may be guessed when she found her three protégées seemingly more familiar with the young man than was she herself.

The designs by Downing, rarely much more than commodious residences with great neatness rather than artistic beauty, stand very well for that style of building which consults comfort and attains it, but it is a misuse of words to call them artistic.

Take a little bit at first and gradually more and more.

It was never lost sight of by Emily Moseley, that her existence here was preparatory to an immensely more important state hereafter.

Of these three dogs Old Jock was undoubtedly more of a terrier than the others.

Where the operation is a major one, restraint of a distinctly more forcible nature becomes imperative.

" "'More 'n a month ago'!

Every great author in the Literature of the Worldwhether he lives to old age (when his judgment may possibly be less critical) or dies young (when it may be relatively more accurate)should himself determine what portions of his work ought, and what ought not to survive.

Sain remarked that this signing took time, that in addition we numbered barely more than sixty, a large number of the members of the Left being at work in the streets in insurrection.

He had a practice at the Bar which, I believe, brought him in £10,000 a year, and had he devoted himself to it instead of to politics, would have brought him in far more, and he gave it up for a job immeasurably more burdensome that has never brought him more than £5000.

And anon as thei ben entred in to the gravely see, thei ben seyn no more; but lost for evere more.

The "bought" servants were, as a class, superior to the hiredwere more trust-worthy, had greater privileges, and occupied a higher station in society.

The Cut from the Inside to the Outside, has commonly more Success than that from the Outside to the Inside, the Adversary going more readily to his Parade on this Side than on the other.