When the last cheer was dying, Mr. Dempster closed the window, and the judiciously-instructed placards and caricatures moved off in divers directions, followed by larger or smaller divisions of the crowd.
It doesn't take anything muchlarger than a pocket-handkerchief to dress the little monkey.
Her eyes, as Dorcas had said, looked larger than ever, perhaps because her face was thinner and paler, and her hair quite gathered away under one of Dorcas's thick caps.
She wants a larger town house, a villa on the sea coast and a new limousine car every six months.
While the larger part of the contents is humorous, there are inserted many quotations of a serious nature which may serve as appropriate literary ballast.
Twenty minutes later there appeared over his own door, in larger letters, "Main Entrance.
The quotas that some of the states refused to furnish were made good by a larger volunteering in other parts of the country.
Partly to meet this danger, and partly with a larger strategic purpose, Lee detached Early, and sent him down the Valley with about 8,000 men.
For this as well as for the other reasons indicated, the North had need of largernumbers than the South, in order to carry the war to success.
Forrest pushed out from Chattanooga and undertook even larger operations.
It often happens in war, that a smaller force, skilfully handled, masters a larger force.
Forrest, a brave and intrepid cavalry general, was in the West with a large force, making a larger command necessary to hold what we had gained in middle and west Tennessee.
For, it may be remarked without malice, he has always had a larger audience of readers than of listeners.
Though hope and faith ever brighten his pages, we could wish at times for a larger infusion of charity, to neutralize the gall in which his pen was dipped.
Father Ricci had a larger work in hand, and so he stopped at Pekin.
Larger crowds were daily going to the places where the rations were doled out.
Theresa heard of this from a woman hurrying away with her basket, and, instead of pushing into the larger crowd, she joined the smaller one, and being served far more quickly than she had thought possible, hurried home with a very light heart.
A larger selection of prayers and lessons from the Breviary was concocted; the offices of the Virgin, of the Cross, of the Holy Ghost, and of some special saints were united to form the Book of Hours.
The Gothic writing was pretty nearly the same everywhere, and the larger illuminated initials had followed one model since the thirteenth century.
Arabic writing occupied not only all {21}the seats in which Phoenician letters had been used fifteen centuries before, but even a farlarger area.
Several political sonnets, and others, were written in 1807; also the Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, and the first and larger part of The White Doe of Rylstone, with a few minor fragments.
From the "advertisement" which Wordsworth prefixed to his edition of 1815, I infer that the larger part of the poem was written at Stockton.
The larger part of it was built by Roger, Lord Clifford, son of Isabella de Veteripont, who placed over the inner door the inscription, "This made Roger.
These oaks, far larger than any to which we are accustomed, bear witness to the painstaking thoroughness of the Dutch.
These little beasts, no larger than guinea-pigs, go about in droves of about fifty, and move through the grass with such incredible rapidity that the eye is unable to follow them.
This point was measured, and the bottom of the larger bucket was covered over with sand so that in setting solidly in the sand the inside bucket would occupy the same relative position as it did in the water.
The inside bucket was then given a false bottom and partly filled with wet sand, resting on the sand in the larger bucket.
I may be a little the warmer on this head, on account that I have been a larger sufferer by such means than ordinary.
It will be easy enough to raise the money; and no parish can grudge to pay a little larger rate for such a term, on condition never to be taxed for the highways any more.
Water is capable of dissolving, in larger or smaller proportions, most compound bodies, and the calcareous and alkaline elements of stones are particularly liable to this kind of operation.
This animal, I dare say, is much larger than we now see it when mature in its native place; but its comparative anatomy is exceedingly hostile to the idea that it is an animal in a state of transition.
Larger developments in the economic, social, and intellectual spheres were bringing to an end the era of all-powerful Kings.
But as settlement spread into the interior, up the tributary streams that issued into the larger rivers, the natural social unit that developed was that of communities on the same side of the river.
Many historians accuse the people of Ponthieu of making prisoners all whose ill fortune threw them upon their coast, and of treating them with great barbarity, in order to extort the larger ransom.
It is represented in the canvas of larger size than the others: the mast, surmounted by a cross, bears the banner which was sent to William by the Pope as a testimony of his blessing and approbation.
They were larger than those of the present day, which seem to have been unknown in England till about the middle of the fifteenth century.
One by one the little band of heroes came forth, the lean men through a narrow aperture giving on the stairs, those who were too corpulent through a larger window near the summit of the tower, and these men let themselves down by ropes.
Writing in 1851 of the larger panels he says, 'To whom must we attribute these two delicious pages--to Memlinc in a peculiar phase of his talent, painting in a different and in some respects a less precise style than he painted at Bruges?
Maximilian was one of those men whose appetites grow largerwith eating.
In 1739 a like act of vandalism, but on a larger scale, was perpetrated in the same church.
Only the larger shutters, however, were placed in the King's collection.
It was while he was staying in Ireland with the Dublin Danes that he heard news from Norway that opened largerambitions to him.
Some fifteen more frigates might have been added to the fleet, but it was thought better to leave them unmanned, and use their crews for strengthening those of the larger ships.
He brought up more of his ships and gathered a larger boarding-party.
It was reported that Antony had a considerable number of huge quinqueremes, and even larger ships of war, anchored in the Ambracian Gulf.
Her turning circle was much smaller than that of the larger ship, and she could choose her position, and evade with comparative ease any attempt of her clumsy adversary to ram and run her down.
Ships, armour, guns, were all improved, and the great naval Powers built on a larger and larger scale.
Off the centre and south of the island Rodney's larger fleet was stretched out in line ahead.
On the raised bows and sterns of the larger ships barons and knights and men-at-arms stood arrayed in complete armour.
The English attacked the stranded galleass in pinnaces and boats, Howard with some of the larger ships standing by "to give the men comfort and countenance.
The English guns were mostly mounted on an improved system that gave a larger arc of training fore and aft, the practical result being that as ships passed each other the Frenchman was kept longer under fire than the Englishman.
By the time the Christian armament was ready a larger Turkish fleet had appeared in the waters of Cyprus and landed an army, which, under its protection, began the siege of Nicosia.
We are brought down to the elementary fact, in terms of the metaphysics of ethics, that the object of love is a real being that is itself and not ourselves, though having some resemblance to us and united in a larger whole.
In 1844 appeared the second edition of his principal work, to which there was added, in the form of a second volume, a series of elucidations and extensions larger in bulk than the first.
He brought with him about half a million of francs, the greater part of which he invested in the French funds; a much larger sum remained in Austrian land and securities.
He was a figure altogether on a larger scale than the interpreter, who stood outside.
In response, the larger bird, the female, appeared on the ledge, and the pair forthwith began their meal.
The percentage payable on the taxable capital was of course higher, the larger the number of ships required.
Those who have one or two ships take less, those who have a larger force take more.
She knew well that he had not abandoned her with it, but she could guess what the loss of larger issues meant to him.
On six of thelarger tombstones are carved, below the grass level, a row of tiny imps, grinning faces and humanized animals.
Hattie, somehow abashed by the mental impact of the little man, ate her pie meekly, and thenceforth waived the larger issue.
He had frankly set Amelia right on the subject of livestock; and she smilingly acquiesced in his larger knowledge.
Susan's cheeks were red with the challenge of the stinging air, but she had the look of one who, living by a larger law, has banished the foolishness of fear.
Posterior wings dirty red, bordered with black, whereon are eight white spots, larger than those on the upper side; the colours of the whole being much duller and fainter than on that side.
There is another moat filled with muddy water; another drawbridge larger than the outer one.
It takes sometimes a week to go from Pontdebois to Paris; and there is no larger industrial city much nearer than Paris.
Heribert was hailed as savior of the region, just as other champions, notably the great Count Odo at the siege of Paris, won similar successes elsewhere on a larger scale.
But most came from Kentucky and Tennessee and represented the second generation of white people in those States, now impelled to move on to a new frontier by the desire for larger and cheaper farms.
The settlers drew together about the larger villages, which were put as rapidly as possible in a state of defense.
Almost without exception the frontier cabins had log walls; and they were rarely of larger size than single lengths would permit.
They were non-combatants, and no amount of success in sweeping them from their homes could affect the larger outcome.
The number of these would have been larger had there been less rigid restrictions upon slaveholding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "larger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
