Richer

Examples

• It was finer, more fertile, altogether richer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How could I think so, when you refused a richer man for me, and won't let me give you half I want to now, when I have the right? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Dress had become richer, finer, and more beautiful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• China is a much richer country than any part of Europe, and the difference between the price of subsistence in China and in Europe is very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The more tenacious the memory, the richer the supply of image s, the greater the powers of adaptation and survival. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The rich grew richer and the poor poorer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I wished him good night, and walked out of the shop the richer by that sum, and the poorer by a waistcoat. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But we have plenty, and live well, nevertheless, though, by being soberer, we might be richer. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This we remark in the case of the artisan, but, ludicrously enough, do not apply the same rule to people of the richer sort. Plato. The Republic.
• The consequent rise of all money prices, though it does not make those who receive them really richer, does not make them really poorer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The greater the number of overtones present, the richer the tone produced. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Another richer than I desires to wed thee, Therefore do I shed tears, as the rose sheds her crimson petals. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He is handsome, young, clever enough, and very rich--ever so much richer than the Laurences. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am richer than you are, I will therefore pay his schoolmaster, and you must send him to me to-morrow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This in itself was not a bad thing for the lower clergy in France, who were often scandalously underpaid in comparison with the richer dignitaries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You may command me, Eustacia, to the limit of my influence; and don't forget that I am richer now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But here again needy Germany led her richer neighbours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took me away to 'Frisco. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is for your children's good that I wish to be richer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And the miners, in those days, finding themselves richer than they might have expected, felt glad and triumphant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Because you be richer than you were at that time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The former too would, at the end of the period, be the richer man of the two. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And off went Jo, talking very fast, as she told all about the Hummels, in whom her mother had interested richer friends than they were. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer field, in the provinces. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If I had been a richer man I would have gone back to London, and would have comforted myself with a sight of the two dear faces again that night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So much the poorer you; so much the richer I! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A cup of wine will do thee no harm, he added, filling and handing to the swineherd a richer drought than Gurth had ever before tasted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Then, being threatened by Prussia on the Rhine, Napoleon made peace, leaving Sardinia the richer for Lombardy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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