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Example sentences for "still greater"

  • Having now reached the limit of discovery with his present instrument, he makes another of still greater power, and points it to the planet Jupiter.

  • Merchants and sailors had then been frightened of dangers which they did not know; now, it seemed, the evils of which they did know proved a still greater deterrent.

  • He followed the westerly coast of Trinidad to the north until he came to a second channel narrower than the first, through which the current boiled with still greater violence, and to which he gave the name of Dragon's Mouth.

  • The next day Bobadilla, again hearing mass in state, causes further documents to be read showing that a still greater degree of power had been entrusted to his hands.

  • And a still greater objection to the distinction would result from the immense difficulty, if not impossibility, of a practical discrimination between the cases of one complexion and those of the other.

  • The Lycian Confederacy, as far as its principles and form are transmitted, must have borne a still greater analogy to it.

  • As to the second supposed advantage, there is still greater reason to entertain doubts concerning it.

  • Filled with astonishment, and transported with joy, he fell on his knees to thank God, and formed a firm resolution to aim at still greater perfection.

  • A man of simple manners, but enlightened from above, caused a still greater esteem to be entertained for him.

  • Secondly, the doubt of the servant of God was useful in preserving his humility and rendering it still greater.

  • Still greater assurance is easy to gain, by examining persons who know the girl well on her trustworthiness and love of truth before this time.

  • And when the intelligence is still greater, it makes possible a correct description in words.

  • Of still greater importance to us is the circumstance noted but not explained by Bernstein.

  • I mean that behind the misfortune which has just happened to you, there is another, perhaps, still greater.

  • But this sudden and factitious joy soon forsook the young man, and was succeeded by a still greater grief.

  • With these words he went stealthily to the door, which he closed, and, by way of still greater precaution, bolted and barred it, as he was accustomed to do at night.

  • In the Indian Calotes nigrilabris there is a still greater difference; the lips also of the male are black, whilst those of the female are green.

  • Faye remarks that "a still greater preponderance of males would be met with, if death struck both sexes in equal proportion in the womb and during birth.

  • If the contractions be still greater in energy or duration, painful sensations are introduced, as in consequence of great heat, or caustic applications, or fatigue.

  • But if this interruption be still greater, the circle of actions becomes entirely dissevered, and she finds herself immediately under the necessity to begin over again to recover the lost catenation, according to the eighth preceding article.

  • Personal Attacks The democratic reaction manifested still greater vehemence in all personal questions, wherever it could and dared.

  • They had not yet come to that maturity of jurisprudence as to think this might be made to extend to criminal law also, and that the latter was an object of still greater importance.

  • Others, pushing things further, have offered a still greater violence to them.

  • An opinion of their miracles after their death drew still greater numbers.

  • An animated discussion followed this petition, but Luttrell was confirmed in his seat by a still greater majority.

  • Allied by liberty as well as allegiance, the two nations formed a constitutional confederacy: the perpetual annexation of the crown was one great bond, but liberty was a still greater.

  • But these were only the accessories to still greater misfortunes.

  • In the census of 1850 the proportion in favor of Virginia is still greater.

  • But its abolition would be a still greater injury, replies the objector.

  • By this arrangement useless expense on both sides and, what is of still greater importance, the danger of collision between armed vessels in those inland waters, which was great, is prevented.

  • This time element forces us to still greater efforts to attain the full employment of our labor and our capital.

  • The forest reserves will inevitably be of still greater use in the future than in the past.

  • Many patriotic and enlightened citizens who have made the subject an object of particular investigation have suggested an improvement of still greater importance.

  • In the talks which we usually had, when the dictations were ended and Miss Hobby had gone, I gathered much that was of still greater value.

  • Professor Phelps's position in Yale College gave this opinion a certain official weight; but I think the fact of Phelps himself being a writer of great force, with an American freshness of style, gave it a still greater value.

  • It was a sorrow to him, and a still greater sorrow to the club.

  • A boyish prank," Iras answered quickly, "but even a still greater misfortune is less than nothing so long as we are not conscious of it.

  • Here he was urged to still greater haste by another impatient "Go on!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreed boundaries; for the greatest part; getting better; hundred pound; momentary glimpse; really quite; still better; still further; still here; still higher; still known; still life; still living; still looking; still loved; still observed; still other; still remain; still remains; still smaller; still smiling; still standing; still they; still used; still visible; still water