Stronger

Examples

• 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.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He did this in an attempt to destroy Jewry, but indeed he made Jewry stronger by destroying its one sensitive and vulnerable point. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• To her he soon turned, repeating much of what he had already said, with only a softened air and stronger expressions of regret. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Butter already rancid can be improved by treatment with a stronger solution (8 drachms of acid to 1 gallon of water), followed by washing in pure water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Perhaps I might not have gone near it if I had been in a stronger frame of mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And now I hear how you have had to bear for years, and that makes me stronger. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I should feel so much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for satisfaction than his words alone would imply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Before you went away, he said, did you, or did you not, tell the nurse that Miss Halcombe looked much stronger and better? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The passion of vanity is so prompt, that it rouzes at the least call; while humility requires a stronger impulse to make it exert itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The outward appearance of these two men formed scarce a stronger contrast than their look and demeanour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgement than on his own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I wish you were not so tired, said he, still detaining Fanny after all the others were in the house--I wish I left you in stronger health. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But his dread of any change in Dorothea was stronger than his discontent, and he began to speak again in a tone of mere explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Bar Comas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker and more intelligent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I should have followed him through the open window if I had been stronger. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The wind strikes the sails, and causes rotation; and the stronger the wind blows, the faster will the wheel rotate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The more pure and soft the iron is, the stronger will its magnetism be while it lasts, and the more completely will it disappear when the current stops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Major's wife, a stronger-minded woman, endeavoured her best to comfort her young friend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was carbon, and might be able to stand a stronger current than platinum. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They have the same employments--the only difference between them is that the one sex is stronger and the other weaker. Plato. The Republic.
• But she is much stronger. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Among the fibers employed in rope making that of the hemp plant long held the supremacy, though in recent years it has been largely supplemented by other and stronger fibers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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