Older

Examples

• He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At Cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the pre-dynastic remains of Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As brittle as crockery, sir, and as old as the church, if not older. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Blandois accepted the commission with his own free elegance of manner, and swore he would discharge it before he was an hour older. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Why, then, it is that you will marry some one very rich and very worthy, much older--five and twenty years, perhaps--than yourself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The foreign commerce of Portugal is of older standing than that of any great country in Europe, except Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The older one, who had been so fierce, began to sob. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was a shock to her to learn afterward that he was but two years older than her mother. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He was very young, not more than nineteen then, if quite so much, but nearly two years older than she was. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The world has grown older, and is therefore more conservative. Plato. The Republic.
• It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My sister Augusta is married now to a man much older-looking than papa. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The lady with whom Estella was placed, Mrs. Brandley by name, was a widow, with one daughter several years older than Estella. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Archer, while he helped her on with her Opera cloak, noticed the exchange of a significant smile between the older ladies. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Helen comes to Paris now Earth is older. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He felt himself older, more knowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is uncertain if his wife was much older, though tradition declares she was forty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was copied by a priest about 1600 B..-the classical period of Egyptian culture--from a document seven hundred years older. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Her older sisters were very fine young ladies, and one was engaged, which was extremely interesting and romantic, Meg thought. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This history is even as the history of Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt in the older times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The original recited version of the _Iliad_ was older than that of the _Odyssey_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a moment it was both the children's, and then it got older. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She is interesting to herself, I suppose; and I am not at all sure that everything gets easier as one gets older. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He imprudently puts himself into the power of the young man and his older associate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was Miss Gage and she looked a little older in the bright sunlight and not so pretty. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He is an older friend of yours, Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We shall have more detective-business on our hands, sir, before the Moonstone is many months older. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Something is going to happen in the house, before we are many months older. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Editor: Warren