Keener

Examples

• Helstone came in marching nimbly and erect, looking browner, keener, and livelier than usual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I think Henrique, now, has a keener sense of the beauty of truth, from seeing lying and deception the universal badge of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The Arab was informed and the Jew sharpened to a keener edge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, the greateSt. And is there any greater or keener pleasure than that of sensual love? Plato. The Republic.
• But suddenly I was aware of that which his keener senses had already distinguished. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Them little things wor like as if they'd a keener sense nor grown-up folks i' finding our folk's natures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It helped him to a clearer and keener perception of the place assigned him by the family. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I began to understand what my friend meant when he said that his brother possessed even keener faculties that he did himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The events that in succession followed his return to England, gave me keener feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Maxine