Pleasanter

Examples

• He must say he thought a drone the embodiment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In fact it seemed to be pleasanter to him to disappoint than to gratify. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is it not, Mr. Bingley? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A timely word from me put Justice and Penelope on a pleasanter footing together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Soon we were packed in it, as warm and as snug as at a fire-side; and the drive home was, I think, still pleasanter than the drive to the concert. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You are much pleasanter as Sancho Panza than as Don Quixote. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Celia said to herself, I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Pooh, pooh, Miss Sharp, said he, pulling up his shirt-collars; the danger makes the sport only the pleasanter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You'll find it much pleasanter, Sir,' urged another stout gentleman, who strongly resembled the other half of the roll of flannel aforesaid. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was dangerous recreation, but it was pleasanter than traveling in Syria. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was no doubt a far pleasanter duty for some families than it would have been to render a like service for Union soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You are pleasanter to yourself, than _I_ am to _my_self. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Nothing could be pleasanter. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They are pleasanter to look upon then than they are in their theatrical aspect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The disappointments got time on; the fears and fits of anger only made that short discourse pleasanter, when it came at last. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I think my life is pleasanter than your Miss Morgan's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How much pleasanter it is, she would say, to have you by my side in the carriage than that foolish old Briggs! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Every place seemed pleasanter. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And when persons are suffering from acute pain, you must have heard them say that there is nothing pleasanter than to get rid of their pain? Plato. The Republic.
• Perhaps by and by I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• That after all nothing is pleasanter than health. Plato. The Republic.
• I never spent a pleasanter morning in my life. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• There never can have been, there never can be, a pleasanter manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Jeffrey