Sooner

Examples

• He had not dared to tell it sooner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Couldn't we have gotten away any sooner? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To-morrow will see all my doubts in a fair way of being cleared up, sooner or later. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No sooner does an article become extensively used than a machine is made for turning it out automatically. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Yes; and now get it ready as quickly as you can, for the sooner we have tea over the sooner they will go--at least, I hope so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Every time her hand searched for either of these, it would touch the book; and, sooner or later (who knows? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I would sooner go--somewhere else. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sooner or later I will solve all these problems which are now so tantalizing; but, come what may, one good thing is in store for me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I would sooner have married her myself, he said in a low voice. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The door was no sooner opened than all doubt on the subject was removed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The sooner the engagement's off, the better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No, nor nobody never did; but now she's dead, we've got to bury her; and that's the direction; and the sooner it's done, the better. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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