Then I just blurted out, "I might as well tell you because, anyway, you're smarter than I am.

He had alighted at Bordighera station from the rapide from Paris, spent the night at a third-rate hotel in order not to be recognised at the Angst or any of the smarter houses, and had met him by appointment to explain the present situation.

Beat your overcoat and it will be warmer; beat a wifeshe'll be smarter.

P.D. scenting the pasturage and feeling the pangs of thirst was starting forward at a smarter pace; but Jack held him back to the snail's crawl of Prather's pony.

She reminded him of the Renoir woman in her plush living room, the dog sprawled at her feet, but she was smarter.

"I'll tell you one thing," Tucker said, "there weren't nobody smarter than Margery Sewell ever come out of here.

If you were smarter and tougher, you might as well just take the other person's wallet.

"Sometimes I think cats are smarter than people," Arlen said, "but I love to hear the birds.

"She is just as good as you are, Mary Patuck, and a great deal smarter."

"The farmer is stronger and smarter than we are.

You couldn't have done a smarter trick, by heck!

But the Fox replied, "Your coat may be smart, but my wits are smarter still.

Nothing could be smarter, not anything better calculated to disguise a man.

Young folks done smarter than I is.

Mike was smarter still.

Everyone is always trying to be first and to be a little smarter than anyone else.

This distinction is made by us in two ways; either by dwelling longer upon one syllable than the rest; or by giving it a smarter percussion of the voice in utterance.

"You'll do well enough, lass," he said; "but I should like you to have had something smarter than that blue stuff.

On the whole, however, the appearance of their Baronet in a smarter style than usual was popular, and accepted as a change to the advantage of the town.

BRYAN, MARGUERITE. Smarter and smoother.

"Wilder is a fool or he wouldn't leave his herd unguarded at the Witches' Pool." "You'll find he's smarter than you think.

If husband is a martyr, I'm a great deal, great deal smarter, For I talk when I've nothing to say!

" "Il Signor Podestà will be welcome," said Benedetta, wiping off a spare table, and bustling round the room to make things look a little smarter than they ordinarily did; "he may frequent grander wine-houses than this, but he will hardly find better liquor.

"Are you smarter than a clergyman?"

He had one son, whose name was Lee, and a smarter boy it was hard to find.