Worthier
[wə:ðiə]
Examples
- Put me aside for ever,--you have done so, I well know,--but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You have a noble nature, and Ada's love may make you worthier every day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am sure that the best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I remember the time, Rachel, I said, when you could have told me that I had offended you, in a worthier way than that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was ten times worthier of you than I was, Fred could now say to her, magnanimously. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I seem, then, to be worthier of the eldest Miss Larkins. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Even the poor deer, our antlered proteges, were obliged to fall for the sake of worthier pensioners. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I thought of these things--perhaps with the superstition inherent in my nature, perhaps with a sense worthier of me than superstition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I will try to be worthier of your kind feeling for me and for my interests if you will only come again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Although I closed this unforeseen page in my life to-night, I could be worthier of it all through my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favored; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Not half, not a quarter, so much worthier as I hope you may some day find me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I knew that I should not be worthier of the love I could not take if I reserved it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Osborn