10289 examples of straighter in sentences

As a rule man's judgment is straighter than a woman's.

Headlong the party dashed along the winding path, and sometimes the terrified horses leaped into the tall grass, seeking a straighter course, or eager to pass by those who had fled before them.

" Mr. Heatherbloom sat up straighter; the water dripped from his fingers.

" "Well, your head is level," cried Will, sitting up still straighter in the hammock, and regarding Tilly with a look of respect.

Esther sighed, and sat up straighter.

But if no latitude is to be allowed a Poet; you take from him, not only his license of quidlibet audendi: but you tie him up in a straighter compass than you would a Philosopher.

Cloves also are found in great plenty, which are gathered from small trees, resembling the bay-tree in boughs and leaves, but somewhat longer and straighter, having white flowers.

The quality in it made Sinclair sit a little straighter.

XXVI.There is an ox of the shape of a stag, between whose ears a horn rises from the middle of the forehead, higher and straighter than those horns which are known to us.

He intended to try a straighter and shorter route than the one round the Murray, and for a time got on very well, but coming across a tract of dry country across which he could not take the cattle, he determined to follow Mitchell's Wimmera River to the north, naturally thinking that it would lead him easily to the Murray, and would probably prove to be identical with the Lindsay, as marked on Sturt's chart.

He sat straighter.

Their demeanour did not alter perceptibly, except that the laughter, perhaps, became a little more uproarious, and they were sitting straighter in their chairs, their eyes brighter.

It was cruel, after being elevated to such a pinnacle of happiness, to find my hopes thus rudely dashed to the ground; and my hair seemed straighter than ever, from contrast with what I had expected it to be.

When they take the arm from this position, so close are they kept together that their shoulders cannot be held straight; and the near shoulder of each being obliged to be held down or up, to allow them room to stand, gives them the appearance of being deformed; but two straighter bodies can scarcely be seen.

These fellows believe that the Americans can shoot straighter and with less pity than any other set of people on earth.

It was strange to see them loading, for they would put the ball into a greasy rag and then hammer it down with a mallet, but they could fire both further and straighter than we.

Would you shake the cable and keep shouting to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter!

" Do you ken what I did in that town I talked harder and straighter about the war than I had in any place I'd talked in up to then!

What, then, could better suit him than to compose a novel in which he might give full play to his simious humour, startle more hideously than ever his straighter-laced neighbours, defiantly defend his own character, and caricature whatever eccentric figure in the society around him might offer the most tempting butt for ridicule?

Isolated clumps, however, of a taller, straighter, and smoother character, were met with in the dried watercourses.

Oh you are fairer far Than the chaste blushing morn, or that fair star That guides the wandering seaman through the deep, Straighter than straightest pine upon the steep Head of an agèd mountain, and more white Than the new milk we strip before day-light From the full-freighted bags of our fair flocks, Your hair more beauteous than those hanging locks Of young Apollo!

O you are fairer far Than the chaste blushing morn, or that fair star That guides the wandring Sea-men through the deep, Straighter than straightest Pine upon the steep Head of an aged mountain, and more white Than the new Milk we strip before day-light From the full fraighted bags of our fair flocks: Your hair more beauteous than those hanging locks Of young Apollo.

And this I know: I lived a straighter and better man because of Otoo.

Besides, we didn't always agree; she had to walk straighter than her wild natur' agreed with, because she was my wife; and we hadn't no children to hold us together; and I couldn't 'a' taken her aboard of the whaler, if she'd wanted to go.

But the conceited rogues are like the man who blew the bellows, and fancied he made the music; and there is never a hobbling imp of them all, but he believes he is straighter and sounder, than the best in the colonies.

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