Wider

Examples

• I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Gentlemen all, observe the dark stain upon this gentleman's hat, no wider than a shilling, but thicker than a half-crown. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Meanwhile the great world outside went on to wider visions and new powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From this sheet is cut a blank, which bears little resemblance to a spoon, being about half the length of the finished article and very much wider. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• How should any one coming from a wider world not feel the difference and be attracted by it? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I tried it, but felt wider awake than ever. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• To picture to ourselves something of the wider life that world unity would open to men is a very attractive speculation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is not any wider than Broadway in New York. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• For this purpose a machine is made carried upon two wheels; the square surface has boards erected at the side, which, sloping outward, make a wider space above. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In both ways, this philosophy promoted a wider and more democratic social concern. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This means a wider and more flexible observation of means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A man climbed on the chair too and stood with his arms around mine, holding the wider bars. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Amenophis IV may have had a wider view. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Consequently, the training is much more general; that is to say, it covers a wider territory and includes more factors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He could thus throw the shuttle farther and quicker than by hand--make wider cloth, and do as much work in the same time as two men had done before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For us now that door swings wider, and the light behind grows brighter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We walked on along the street until it came out onto a wider street that was beside a canal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Rudolph Roylands has the bearing of a born leader of men, and I do not wonder he left England for wider fields. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Now the door opened outwards; and as the door opened wider and wider, Mr. Pickwick receded behind it, more and more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What was his discomfiture, when he heard the chain and bolts withdrawn, and saw the door slowly opening, wider and wider! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When the novelty of amusement there was over, it would be time for the wider range of London. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What real driving force is there in all this aspiration towards a new and wider order? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sometimes we emerged upon a wider thoroughfare or came to a larger building than the generality, well lighted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typist: Murray