Nobler

Examples

• This groom is the pilot-fish before the nobler shark. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That is John Hebron, of Atlanta, said the lady, and a nobler man never walked the earth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. Plato. The Republic.
• There is a nobler strain heard in the words:--'Endure, my soul, thou hast endured worse. Plato. The Republic.
• Someone of a nobler character, and more worthy altogether than anyone I have ever seen here, must rise up, before I give my consent. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There can be no nobler training than that, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
• It is plain, that almost in every species of creatures, but especially of the nobler kind, there are many evident marks of pride and humility. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This is the reason why children commonly bear their father's name, and are esteemed to be of nobler or baser birth, according to his family. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There the suggestion brought constantly to his mind is, that this place is sacred to a nobler royalty--the royalty of heart and brain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Surround yourself with nobler interests than the wretched interests of the world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The falser he, the truer Joe; the meaner he, the nobler Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Wedded to Rowena, indeed, her nobler and more generous soul may yet awake the better nature which is torpid within him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Another and a nobler strain must be composed and sung by us. Plato. The Republic.
• Because she's not like that: she's so much nobler. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Edited by Jimmy