It was a foolish sort of a reverie, and scarcely worth the setting down.

To confess the stupidity and obstinacy of my ignorance is small reparation, and would be little worth while, except for the hope that my account of the comfort and economy in living on the English lodging-house system may be a seed dropped in due season, which shall spring up sooner or later in the introduction of a similar system in America.

Then a gang-plow was procured, and a dozen mustang ponies, worth ten or fifteen dollars apiece, and with these hundreds of acres were stirred as easily as if the land had been under cultivation for years, tough, perennial roots being almost wholly absent.

They were regarded according to their character and worth as persons, irrespective of their foreign origin, employments, and political condition.

In God's sight, three or four years of war may be tremendously worth while.

Quoth Sir Benedict loud-voiced, and pointing to the grim array: "Behold, lord Duke, hither have I brought thee five hundred archers and pike-men, with three hundred knights and men-at-arms, and each and every a man well tried and chosen, all vowed to follow thee and smite in Pentavalon's cause even as I, their lord, that do love thee for thy noble father's sake and for thine own sweet and knightly worth!"

Deep, like golden ore, frequently lies my meaning, and richly worth digging for.

Generous and brave, his equal is unknown; In deeds of princely worth he stands alone.

Pantagruel, being pleased with him, gave him the castellany of Salmigondin, which was yearly worth 6,789,106,789 royals of certain rent; besides the uncertain revenue of cockchafers and snails, amounting one year with another to the value of 2,435,768, or 2,435,769 French crowns of Berry.

They found the director "a man of great simplicity, but of inward worth.

On the other hand, as I am bidding for a consent and not for a refusal, I hope you will not take my disadvantages for more, or my advantages for less, than they are honestly worth.

more than they are intrinsically worth.

No matter, her Love's worth a million; and, that's so great, that I'm sure she'll be content to carry my Soot basket after me. Isa.

Conversations with your friend Buonaparte at St. Helena, amusing, but scarce worth sending.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege; so that though I did not openly declare the effects of my own prowess, which is forbidden by the laws of honour, it cannot be supposed that I was very solicitous to bury my reputation, or to hinder accidental discoveries.

Life seemed so stingingly full, so poignant, so immeasurably worth living, so blessed with beauty and richness and fruitfulness.

A climbing height it is without a head, Depth without bottome, way without an end, A circle with no line invironed, Not comprehended, all it comprehends; Worth infinite, yet satisfies no minde, 'Till it that Infinite of the God-head finde.

It was necessary to pass through it, and what was on the other side was infinitely worth the struggle.

Clearly, then, in some way or other, you must pick and choose, you must reject some enterprises as insufficiently worth while.

By the time Mrs. Effingham arrived by appointment at ten o'clock he had them all arranged and labeled; and in a special bundle neatly tied with a piece of red tape were what on their face were securities worth upward of seventy thousand dollars.

Down she went in twenty fathoms before you could have dealt for whist, with fifty thousand pounds worth of gold aboard, it was said, in one form or another.

"At Post heem worth fi' hundred dollarsat Montreal t'ree hundred more!" Wabi strode across the cabin and thrust out his hand.

Luckily we don't and mustn't, for we all know that there are things in the world a million times worse than death, and that there are future results to be aimed at which make death gloriously worth while.

"I don't despair of the world itself, but I feel that if the average newspaper represents the mind of the average man, the human race is very feeblenot worth saving!

Inferiority N. inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness &c 32; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth.