Happier

Examples

• If I do come again, I hope I shall find you better, I said; better and happier. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The common man in France was more free, better off, and happier during the Terror than he had been in 1787. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She suddenly looked up at me with a faint reflection of her smile of happier times--the most irresistible smile I have ever seen on a woman's face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It made my second year much happier than my first; and, what was better still, made Dora's life all sunshine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Oh, but I am happier than usual to-day, answered I, very naturally. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am much happier,' said Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My dear Maurice, you will be happier in the actual battle than in all the statecraft which leads to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I should be much happier if we were reconciled. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I can be happier in nothing than in your happiness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I am much happier at Freshitt with Celia. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I don't believe there was a happier household in England than this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had no doubt of your being contented and happy with me, being so dutiful and so devoted; but I saw with whom you would be happier. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I took off my pink dress and lace mantle with happier feelings than I had experienced in putting them on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I will make her very happy, Mary; happier than she has ever yet been herself, or ever seen anybody else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• By that time we shall both have become wiser, and I hope happier, than we at present are. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If it will do you any good, Mr. Carton, if it would make you happier, it would make me very glad! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The interest he takes in herhis anxiety about her healthhis concern that she should have no happier prospect! Jane Austen. Emma.
• You will be happier, she concluded, alone--with my respect and friendship, than with me and my contempt. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• If he could only have recovered in a complete state of oblivion as to the past, he would have been a happier man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Dorothea sat down and subsided into calm silence, feeling happier than she had done for a long while before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It will make me happier, indeed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Since Miss Keeldar and you came I have been--I was going to say happier, but that would be untrue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Is there anything on the face of the earth that a man can do to make you happier than you are at present? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Food would be more plentiful, minds would be more at peace, bodies would be more healthy, and the world happier. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In happier times, addressing me, I think you took sugar? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In another moment a happier sight caught her;Mr. Knightley leading Harriet to the set! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Who could be happier than Miss Price? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But it is better for me to stay there; much better, much more dutiful, much happier. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her only resource was to get out of the subject as fast as possible, and turn the current of Sir Thomas's ideas into a happier channel. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Typist: Mabel