Firmer
['fɜːmə]
Examples
- And she did not speak, but only pressed her hands firmer down upon the source of darkness in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'm a going to seek my--' he stopped, and went on in a firmer voice: 'I'm a going to seek her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She seemed to gather courage as she advanced, and to walk with a steadier and firmer step. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He continued to gaze at the picture: the longer he looked, the firmer he held it, the more he seemed to covet it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He came into the room, with a firmer step than usual and his bow was more stately. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I should like, though, he continued in a firmer voice, to add one thing. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They strike upon us with more force; they are more present to us; the mind has a firmer hold of them, and is more actuated and moved by them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary's father. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was sure that in my every purpose I should gain a firmer and a higher tendency, through the grief I had undergone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And, Whether this feeling be any thing but a firmer conception, or a faster hold, that we take of the object? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thus the absence of Adrian, concerted for the purpose of separating, united them in firmer bonds than ever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typed by Geoffrey