Deeper
[di:pə(r)] or [dipər]
Examples
- Her colour burned deeper, but she held his gaze. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was something other, deeper, more intricate than he guessed at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His face was as fiery as ever; his eyes were as small, and rather deeper set. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Now, really, Dodo, said Celia, with rather a deeper guttural than usual, you _are_ contradictory: first one thing and then another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Plato. The Republic.
- These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty-five times, to imply that it was the lady-lodger, and no other. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And when they don't, which is most of the time, we deny truth, falsify facts, and prefer the coddling of our theory to any deeper understanding of the real problem before us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He proved this to himself by all the weary arguments on that side he had read, and every one of them sunk him deeper in the infatuation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But I have never changed in my devotion to her, except--if she will forgive my saying so--that it is deeper than it was, and better founded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- An unusual--to me--a perfectly new character I suspected was yours: I desired to search it deeper and know it better. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The wheels only dug in deeper. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The deeper he sank into this silence, the fainter hope there was--or so Darnay thought--of his softening in any slight degree. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The fathomless, fathomless desire they could evoke in him was deeper than death, where he had no choice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But there is a deeper explanation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They undoubtedly showed that the affair was much deeper than was at first conjectured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The revolt went deeper and democracy in politics was only an aspect of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The deeper the water, the greater will be the weight sustained by the confining vessel and the greater the pressure exerted by the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They fell into deeper shame and degradation--if there can be deeper--and ruin. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Deeper than melancholy, lies heart-break. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But it is something deeper than this. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- What women want is surely something a great deal deeper than the privilege of taking part in elections. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sir Thomas looked at her with deeper surprise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Many of us are ready to grant that in the past men's motives were deeper than their intellects: we forgive them with a kind of self-righteousness which says that they knew not what they did. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The task of politics is to understand those deeper demands and to find civilized satisfactions for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There are deeper reasons for urging a break-up of herd-politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They seemed to drive their white flesh deeper and deeper against each other, as if they would break into a oneness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Of course the deeper the well, the safer will be the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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