Truer

Examples

• And nothing's truer than them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Could I look at my failure from no truer point of view than this? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? Jane Austen. Emma.
• A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is true, truer than most politicians would admit in public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And is the satisfaction derived from that which has less or from that which has more existence the truer? Plato. The Republic.
• Consider the matter thus: The satisfaction of that which has more existence is truer than of that which has less. Plato. The Republic.
• If he mean this ironically, it may be truer than he thinks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But rather is it truer that public law had failed and vanished and private law had come in to fill the vacuum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You never wrote a truer line. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Supposing the first blow had been truer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The latter appears to be the truer answer. Plato. The Republic.
• You never, returns Tony with a most convincing steadfastness, said a truer word in all your life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The latter, he said, is the truer statement. Plato. The Republic.
• If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It's all very well to say that every body with money can get into society; but it would be truer to say that NEARLY everybody can. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him? Plato. The Republic.
• The falser he, the truer Joe; the meaner he, the nobler Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This I offer only as an hypothesis to account for this particular fact; and perhaps, on farther examination, a better and truer may be found. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She found that the children were truer and simpler mourners than the widow. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Beauty and heiress as she may be, she will find it hard to meet with a truer heart than mine. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If Anne had been your own child, Mrs. Clements, you could have shown her no truer kindness--you could have made no readier sacrifices for her sake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Edward