The job was bigger than I cared to undertake.

They were poor farmers, and their place was not much bigger than a garden-plot.

It looked no bigger than it did a while ago; but now he had to step on the rung first, and then clamber up in order to reach the seat.

Thus Theophilus Londonderry was partly his father licked into shape and partly something bigger and more effectively vital.

Somehow Isabel's visit has made me feel that life is a bigger, fuller thing than I had dreamed, and that men like you, at all events, have duties towards it even greater than your love for a little thing like me.

On looking round the garden, to see if they could discover any traces of the thief, Ned and his grandmother saw the prints of a boy's shoe, rather bigger than Ned's, in several of the beds, and hanging on the quick-hedge were some tattered fragments of a red cotton handkerchief checked with white.

It is something bigger than that.

"What I don't know about society and the right way to act with ladies could be put in a book bigger than the Bible.

When Hannibal wandered all those years in Asia at the Court of silly Antiochus this or stupid Prusias the other, and knew that Carthage was falling to ruin while he alone might have saved her if only she had allowed him, would he have rejoiced to hear that someone else was succeeding better than himselfhad traversed the Alps with a bigger army, had won a second Cannae, and even at Zama snatched a decisive victory?

Miriam had thought of the purple silk when Miss Panney was telling her story, and had said to herself that if the stall in the cow-stable had been ever so much darker and dirtier, and if the milk stains had been more and bigger, the career of that robe would have ended all the more justly.

"You will have to grow a good deal bigger and older before you are able to fill that gown, my little one," he said.

Her eyes grew bigger and blacker as with her mental vision she glared upon the situation.

The hut contained two small bedrooms, scarcely bigger than cabins on board ship, one sitting-room, and a lean-to kitchen in the rear.

As a matter of fact, the bigger the "shoot" the less cruelty takes place, because bad shots are not likely to be present on these occasions, whilst in small "shoots" they are the rule rather than the exception.

One told how an officer, whose duty it was to lead the charge, took shelter behind an orange-tree no bigger than his wrist, and shouted, "Go on, men!

He was bigger, I thought, and he looked older, and graver.

In the field behind his house, under the old hawthorn-tree, an amiable-looking donkey had given birth to a foal, and he watched the little thing, no bigger than a sheep, covered with long gray hair ...

Fuan Mac Cool had a bigger ten times, and it made the mountains shake again like thunder, and all the eagles fly up to the moon.

And, say, I don't know about it, but I believe they have a bigger God out there than you've got in this Salt Lake Basin.

They're coming back light, and we can have a J. Murphy that is bigger than a whole lot of houses in this country.

How Bigger was born.

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