Which preposition to use with cleverer
He's very clever at that.
They are industrious, notwithstanding, and clever in certain arts and manufactures, and it was from some of them that Carlo learned the watchmaking trade.
"It was very clever of you to think of it, Isabelle.
But he was too clever for us.
I have often heard it said that the Russian women were much more clever than the men.
" "I need not pretend at this late day to be as clever as Jack," the colonel said, in some bewilderment.
he's so clever with his pencil and brushes!should be able to invent the Lady Angelica?
All the household was also instructed to pay him honour, and in the whole family of servants there was only one rebel, Harry's foster-mother, a faithful negro woman who never could be made to understand why her child should not be first, who was handsomer and stronger and cleverer than his brother, as she vowed; though in truth, there was not much difference in the beauty, strength, or stature of the twins.
"The mysterious stranger managed to get away," chuckled the other, "but he wasn't so clever about taking all his wardrobe along with him, you remember.
Inger was better than blacksmiths' wivesa little damaged, a little warped, but good by nature, clever by nature ...
She wan't very waal off, nor extra harnsome, but she was pious the worst kind, an' dreadf'l clever to them she fancied.
The MS. found in a Madhouse, by the same author, is perhaps too horrific for this terror-loving age; but it is by no means less clever on that account; toute en huile would not do.
" "Yes." "Humanitarian, artistic, or sociological?" "Oh, nothing long and clever like that.
With the inquisitive and really clever out of the way there is nothing to be feared.
" Augustus is not clever under these circumstances.
For if two intrepid persons dispute over some trivial matter, (more important affairs are dealt with by law), one of them, the cleverer of the two, will of course yield; and they will agree to differ.