If such was God's retribution for the oppression of heathen Egypt, of how much sorer punishment shall a Christian people be thought worthy, who cloak with religion a system, in comparison with which the bondage of Egypt dwindles to nothing?

" Then she made answer, "Truly, sir, the sorer grief is mine.

But great as was the mischief these Saxons wrought us, thou hast done us the sorer harm.

And so went on through the gas-lit streets into his parishes in cellars and alleys, with a sorer heart, but cheerfuller words, now that he had nothing but words to give.

This considering of sin, with its due aggravations, would help to prize mercies at a high rate, and cause the soul more willingly wait for and more seriously seek after remission; knowing that God is more angry for great sins, than for sins of infirmity, and may therefore pursue the same with sorer judgments, as he broke David's bones, withdrew his comforts, &c. 6.

A sorer travail-pain, Before the spirit of thy child Is born in thee again.

But this of my little maid is a matter apart, and means a longer and a sorer parting.

Yet his days on earth were but a span, which was the sorer pity, for he died lamented of all.

The sorer sorrow that he was a childless man.

He was a terrible hand at economy, saving every penny he could lay hands on, and as nothing particular seemed to have come of it, andso far as he could seethere had been no great reason for it, he was sore at my sending for his daughter to Dundee, and all the sorer becausethough I, of course, was utterly innocent of itMaisie had gone off on that journey without as much as a by-your-leave to him.

Beirut was in no better case than Smyrna; Lebanon perhaps was in sorer straits than either.

If sickness or other sorer calamity visit me, how would the love then blaze forth!