113 Metaphors for mores

What gratified him, perhaps, more than any of the many similar expressions of good-will was the cordial welcome with which he was greeted by his old friends and neighbours at Dunfermline: friends from whom he had been, as he told them, so long an unwilling absentee.

20 So more than private was the joy and grief, That at the worst it gave our souls relief, That in our age such sense of virtue lived, They joy'd so justly, and so justly grieved.

ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: Compare Tennyson's 'Deserted House', stanza iv.: 'Come away: no more of mirth Is here, or merry-making sound.' Ed.]

'But that he did not, mistress,' said I, something too pertly, I fear; 'for he bade the people hearken to the voice of God bearing witness against them.' 'Did he so?' cried she; 'the more was his impudence to wrest the heavenly sign in his favour.

"More ain't Spicer," said another voice.

"More are the children of the desolate than of her who hath a husband."

He refused it in the most decided manner, and told me to think no more of what after all was but a boy's fancy.

Even the more than regard with which my soul prompted me to look back to Amy Willoughby was a pain to me.

She must not ask so much attention, As many ladies I could mention; But when I do not want to sway, I'll always let her have her way; And study to oblige her too, When I have nothing else to do; And am not tired, or wish to rest, Or like some other plan the best, For, more than this would be a task, None but thy votaries would ask.

In our study we have noted: (1) the Revival of Learning, what it was, and the significance of the terms Humanism and Renaissance; (2) three influential literary works,Erasmus's Praise of Folly, More's Utopia, and Tyndale's translation of the New Testament; (3) Wyatt and Surrey, and the so-called courtly makers or poets; (4) Malory's Morte d'Arthur, a collection of the Arthurian legends in English prose.

Much more to be relied on is the prophetic wisdom which is seen among great thinkers and writers, like Burke, Webster, and Carlyle, since they rely on the operation of unchanging laws, both moral and physical.

In 1799 Hannah More's great work entitled "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" appeared, which passed through twenty editions in a few years.

And the more that the woman was abused, and the more intent were all the people in regard to her wicked determination to be intimate with Caldigate, the more interesting she became.

Once more was a start made.

More is an adverb.

Such, and much more of the same description, were the contents of the documents upon which the wrath of Sully scarcely permitted him to dwell with patience.

Quid te exempta levat spinis de pluribus una? 'Pluck out one thorn to mitigate thy pain, What boots it while so many more remain?' FRANCIS.

Miss Myrover's friends are mentioned here, because nowhere more than in a Southern town is public opinion a force which cannot be lightly contravened.

But the majority of Irishmen sympathized with the Boer republics, and many of them fought under the Boer flag, of these were legally British subjects, but many were naturalized burghers of the Transvaal, and many more were United States citizens, Irish-Americans from the Rand gold mines.

Every citizen, if he were not a mere proletarian animal kept at the public cost, held himself a sort of soldier-elect: the more noble he was, the more was his liability to military service: in short, all Rome, and at all times, was consciously "in procinct."

But never more were that clear head, ready hand, and sympathetic heart to aid or encourage him in his labors, or succor him in the hour of calamity.

No more was the barber's "sweetness wasted upon the desert air," but fell on one who knew how to appreciate it to its fullest extent.

No more is there a sign of a scratch on the prisoner's mug there.

"Next to myself, you have been most injured by Sir Giles, and even more than myself are you an object of dislike to him.

More of us; being the present-day adventures of one of us.

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