Wiser

Examples

• He must say he thought a drone the embodiment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The wiser course to take was to dismiss the idea of the opium from his mind, by leading him insensibly to think of something else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She believed it would be wiser for her to say and know at once, all that she meant to say and know. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She was almost ready now to think Celia wiser than herself, and was really wondering with some fear what her wrong notion was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Two persons standing there might interchange a dialogue, and, so it were neither long nor loud, none be the wiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I come back sadder and wiser; weakly enough, but not worried. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You'll be wiser another time, my boy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For the purposes of my investigation, I think that it would be wiser for me to remain at the scene of the mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But as one invention has succeeded another people have grown wiser, and realized that each has conferred a benefit rather than taken away a right. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• So Jupe was kept to it, and became low-spirited, but no wiser. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• By that time we shall both have become wiser, and I hope happier, than we at present are. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I lived in that farm, where I had a room down below, and could get in and out every night, and no one the wiser. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Before its birth generation after generation of the human family lived and died, and each was but little wiser, and but little better than its predecessor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It will presently be seen that the question was not before me in a distinct shape until it was put before me by a wiser head than my own. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Relatively it was better and wiser in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dreams, Rebecca,--dreams, answered the Templar; idle visions, rejected by the wisdom of your own wiser Sadducees. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You are probably wiser than I am. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When she comes to her right mind once more, I shall have done what I can, and she never the wiser. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• If your training in the science of arriving at exact results had been more successful, you would have been wiser on these points. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It is quite true that I might be a wiser person, Celia, said Dorothea, and that I might have done something better, if I had been better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At length they stood at the corner from which they had begun, and it had fallen quite dark, and they were no wiser. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Are they any wiser? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• 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.
• And the spirit is no older and not much wiser. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Yes, interrupted I, of age to be wiser than to take offence where, very evidently, no offence was meant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine, he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The wiser man thou, said John, with a peal of laughter, in which his gay followers obsequiously joined. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Checker: Lowell