Safer

Examples

• He is no doubt born with an appetite--probably, when he is in a safer state of health, he has an excellent appetite. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To provide a metal which should be at once stronger and safer than any which had been used before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They would have been safer, though they had been taken in actual war against the Saracens, if they had once drank water with them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The sooner we operate now the safer. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pablo would not want to although, truly, he might feel safer there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Indeed, the doctor is perhaps the safer confessor of the twothough he has not grey hair. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Safer from loving me? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I think if she had done such a deed she would be safer where she was. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We are safer that way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Safer from doing irreparable harm. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Of course the deeper the well, the safer will be the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We mustn’t forget, he answered, that the steady income of a regular trade is safer to rely on than occasional success in other lines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You can read there that the composite judgment is always safer and wiser and stronger and more unselfish than the judgment of any one individual mind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Gerald felt that his own understanding was much sounder and safer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is said on the highest authority that in the Crimean War chloroform was administered 25,000 times without a single death, and ether is even safer than chloroform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I don't like to leave you here, I said to Provis, though I cannot doubt your being safer here than near me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But I do not understand how the room at the Crown can be safer for you than your father's house. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Although she was not subject to much fear, she felt it safer not to betray that she had written to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is not a safer place in all this town than is the Cripples; that is, when I like to make it so. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• That will be safer and quicker and also not require us to be separated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But it seemed safer and simpler to get it over here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is safer with Helena. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Gredos is safer country than this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Instead of answering she murmured: I promised Granny to stay with her because it seemed to me that here I should be safer. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We came by a longer, safer route because of the material. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I'm not sure whether they may not have made their way from Pinner's Lane into the stable-yard; but if not, you will be safer there than here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It's safer talk too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Olivia