8176 examples of rather than in sentences

After requesting me to wake him at the end of three hours, (or sooner, if any thing of moment should occur,) and putting up a short prayer, which was manifested by his looks, rather than by his words, he laid himself down, and soon fell into a quiet sleep.

This occurred through complete exhaustion, rather than the exercising of any judgment, for, had it not been for this providential support, I would surely have drowned without a struggle.

He preserved perfect discipline and respect through love rather than fear, for he was never known to be harsh with any of his crew.

It is the folly rather than the wickedness of vice which Horace describes with such playful skill and such keenness of observation.

The soil was often turned up with the hoe rather than the plough.

It was to Malory rather than to Layamon or to the early French writers that Shakespeare and his contemporaries turned for their material; and in our own age he has supplied Tennyson and Matthew Arnold and Swinburne and Morris with the inspiration for the "Idylls of the King" and the "Death of Tristram" and the other exquisite poems which center about Arthur and the knights of his Round Table.

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At the same time, I must confess, I had little hopes of being able to beat off such a number, and devoutly wished myself anywhere rather than where I was.

He said, "you had better" rather than "you must."

The Poles want a king of their own, but apparently they preferred to be under the wing of Austria rather than of Germany.

Her timidity was of a quality which seemed related to things of the spirit rather than to social embarrassment.

The imagination of both was fired by large and simple rather than luxurious and subtle thoughts.

His method of securing amplitude was exactly opposite to that of Sangallo, who relied upon the multiplication rather than the simplification of details.

Then we began to converse together, on the subject of dinner, in a jocular way, however, rather than with any very great longings on the subject.

Terror, rather than indignation, filled the breast of Amalia.

The moon was riding in an unclouded skyunclouded except by those light fleecy vapours which hovered round the form of the queen of night, increasing rather than diminishing her beauty.

One of them was the gratification of the mother's "wish for a daughter rather than a son."

The teacher who conducts the session is a certain Ghora of the Angirasa family and it is the person of his disciple rather than his actual message which concerns us.

Psychologically, it seems to me that Fechner's God is a lazy postulate of his, rather than a part of his system positively thought out.

Among the lower plants, it is the rule rather than the exception, that contractility should be still more openly manifested at some periods of their existence.

There we assayed to hold temperance prayer-meetings, but they loved darkness rather than light, and we cast our pearls before swine, who turned and rent us.

Foreign banks in South America and the Orient, handling American trade, were believed to favor their own countrymen rather than the interests of American merchants.

All these required, for a proper adjustment of them, firmness rather than ability,a clear perception of the principles of right, rather than abstruse policy,and vigor of execution, rather than profound diplomatic skill.

In short, his conduct should be such as to win for himself the esteem and affection of all the family, and dispose them ever to welcome and desire his presence, rather than regard him as an intruder.

Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form.

8176 examples of  rather than  in sentences