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Sentence Examples
| No nobler principle, no dearer homes, no fairer land were ever fought for, bled for, died for than hang upon the issue of this conflict. |
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| As opposed to the presentation of the piccolo concerto, the suite was interpreted with a much nobler and constrained tone. |
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| For Kass, the sting of death makes for stronger friendships, greater loves, more ardent learning, and nobler deeds. |
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| No, if I'm to enter SYTYF and risk the derision that may entail, I'm determined that it be for a nobler cause. |
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| Each of the acts commemorated in this investiture inspires and spurs us on to greater and nobler endeavours. |
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| If the baser of the two metals is already in ionic form and the nobler metal already in elementary form, no such redox reaction occurs. |
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| The bullfight is much nobler than hunting, where at the end of the day the animal dies without being able to defend itself. |
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| But he quickly abandoned the commercial world because he wanted to do something nobler. |
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| It only made my commitment towards a nobler future for the conflict in our region stronger and more persistent than ever. |
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| We can work to make life in Canada emerge into ever fairer and nobler forms. |
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| Their natural quality of keeping secrecy would also help fulfilling nobler purposes. |
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| I can think of no nobler act than this particular motion in terms of remembrance. |
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| In its chemical reactions gold resembles silver in some respects, but its chemical character is markedly nobler. |
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| For this reason practising nursing is considered nobler than practising as a doctor. |
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| One of the nobler tasks of art and culture is finding fruitful and creative solutions to the problem of misunderstandings. |
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| Undoubtedly they were engaged in the nobler task of helping the poor or animating communities. |
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| Not only does Fancy contradict southern ideals but in her saintlike manner, she possesses qualities nobler than those of the aristocrats with whom she seeks to identify. |
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| But nobler souls came to the rescue, and in each instance opening day saw a big win for goodness over greed. |
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| Is this, then, in some way, an entirely different and nobler goal? |
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| Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance. |
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| Investments in the interests of the investor and military interventions in the interests of the interveners will regularly seek justification through appeals to the nobler motives of human development and human security. |
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| Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow? |
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| In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate people to a nobler life by telling enchanting stories of the virtues of heroes of old. |
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| For there are those amongst us, who, amid doubt, discouragement, decayed enthusiasm, and even chilling sneer, still cling to the belief, that a better, a higher, a nobler destiny still awaits the family of man. |
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| Is private generosity, by nature, nobler than tax redistribution? |
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| Nowhere, incidentally, was it nobler than in England, nor more early sanctified and Christianized. |
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| The electoral slogans were entirely positive because civil society had to prove that it was nobler, and also because the hatred of the Communists needed no fuelling. |
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| Self-restrain is nobler than conquering death. |
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| Loftier and nobler principles-social justice and social charity-must, therefore, be sought whereby this dictatorship may be governed firmly and fully. |
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| Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? |
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| By prioritising the objective of financial benefits, scientists are led by the possibility of commercialising research results rather than what many consider to be the nobler aim, the discovery of knowledge. |
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| When money and political expediency are prioritised over the nobler values that glue us together as human beings, it raises much deeper questions about the kind of society we have built. |
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| This day I will forsake the censuses of men, and seek the suffrages of the god-like population of the trees, which now seem to me a nobler race than man. |
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| As man advances from a narrow sphere of personal satisfaction to the nobler concept of the welfare of all, he marches closer towards self-realization. |
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| Family honour is demanding its due: for Shigeru Yoshida's grandson, it is nobler to fall to Ichiro Hatoyama's descendant than to succumb to mere LDP hoplites. |
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| The religious authorities forced the aristocracy to hunt the stag instead, which has a much nobler bearing, and the lion, considered to be the true king of animals, came to symbolise the power of kings and princes. |
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| I always think that has a nobler ring to it. |
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| For Mr Penn, it's an opportunity to show off his newly developed grapefruit-sized biceps, but he may have had nobler reasons for signing up for the project. |
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| When private firms do the same thing, people get really upset and use what legal tools they can to stop it. But insider-outside games aside, is there a bigger, nobler role that unions play? |
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| Gay marriage will be one of Mr Cameron's nobler reforms. |
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| Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her. |
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| It was there also that, untill 1783, the famous Carlin performed his italian jokes, then very fashioned, and to which, since, has succeeded nobler kind of plays. |
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| These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| He is not to be a 'praiser of the past,' but a herald and expectant of a nobler future. |
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| Now your pickerel, be he ever so meagre, is of course a nobler fish than your hornpout, and there is more glory in his capture. |
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| It is doubtful if there is a nobler hymn of its kind in all the realm of hymnody. |
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| Nothing could afford a nobler proof of a great, a liberal, and a delicate mind, than the choice evinced by the calif in his gift. |
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| It became the nobler ambition of Julius to aggrandize the church, and to reassume the protectorate of the Italian people. |
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| The weeds had to be extirpated before the seeds of nobler flowers could be sown. |
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| He paid it in words and in spirit of loyal admiration, and no nobler eulogy of a corrival has been spoken by any man. |
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| Even her nobler motives she tended to reinterpret from some cynical point of view. |
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| Had the Scholar been with them, certainly there would have been a nobler and a costlier glass. |
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| Is not your body a far more beautiful and nobler thing than all the gay clothes with which you can bedizen it? |
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| The turkey-buzzard is, upon the whole, a nobler bird than the black vulture. |
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| She was as the transmigrant soul of some domestic pig, faintly aware of a nobler status in some previous existence. |
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| Philoneism may be nobler and more humane, but, unfortunately, it is only misoneism that is true. |
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| It always looks nobler to have a man along with you than to mog along alone. |
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| The spirit of piety never seemed to me nobler, than in this unusual expression of unmurmuring, unpresuming resignation. |
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| That unobscured brain applied to nobler ends would have won higher results, but the principle remains the same. |
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| It is a school of the moral sense, of the nobler passions, and also a temple of fame. |
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| Mingled with all the folderol, of course, there is stuff of nobler quality. |
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| They say that they have never seen a nobler, more charming painting, and so forth. |
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| You are nobler than I am, and stronger, far stronger, and purer and braver. |
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| To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. |
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| I won't repeat it to you, because it's wickedly sad, and grayhound Gelert was so much nobler than most people. |
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| Causality, comparison, and other of the nobler faculties, are in them rudimental. |
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| Every act of selfish pleasure-seeking, untouched by nobler aims, weakens and worsens the soul's life. |
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| But the marquis found even the hen-pecked partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street. |
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| What is nobler than a mother's love, but when she fights for her child she becomes a raving Megaera. |
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| Some might risk the odd paradox that with more animalism he would have been the nobler man. |
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| Gauguin and van Gogh knew that there was someone nobler than the peasant. |
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| We may be thankful that our preachers are beginning to take a nobler view of life. |
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| Now do I lay by the name of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, and take upon me once again that nobler title, Robin Hood, the Yeoman. |
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| I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. |
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| Behind the Castle swells a great dome-shaped hill, forest-clad, and beyond that a nobler and loftier one. |
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| It looked as if Nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods, but stood on her last toes. |
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| He had been a hard worker, a daring speculator with nerves of iron, and courage which would have glorified a nobler cause. |
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| Tinsley, bowed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his capacity of a devoted chef. |
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| What could be keener or nobler or nicer than Linacre's judgement? |
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| Deeper their heart grows and nobler their bearing, Whose youth in the fires of anguish hath died. |
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| It is hard to mention a nobler instance of broad-minded charity. |
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| There are no lovelier meadows and woodlands than the English, no nobler crests or chasms than those of Snowdon and Glencoe. |
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| Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen. |
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| Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship. |
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| From this self-examination Wagner rose up nobler and stronger. |
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| In his nobler moods he feels that this is but to evade the difficulty. |
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| His face, seamed with deep wrinkles, had taken, with age, a nobler expression, preserving the pallid tones which inspire veneration. |
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| The Haymarket bomb made me strip again and for a nobler fray. |
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| It may be doubted if all the Herefordshire annals record a nobler victory. |
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| The Western spirit must be invoked for new and nobler achievements. |
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| Wedded to Rowena, indeed, her nobler and more generous soul may yet awake the better nature which is torpid within him. |
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| Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are, Pauson as less noble, Dionysius drew them true to life. |
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| With what fairer and nobler emblem could any man desire to shadow forth his character? |
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| What nobler qualities he might possess below the surface, no one had ever discovered. |
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| Someone of a nobler character, and more worthy altogether than anyone I have ever seen here, must rise up, before I give my consent. |
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| Yes, like the North American Indian, who was a far nobler type than the Melanesian. |
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| But Europe has ever shown, and now, her nobler men and higher destiny. |
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| Another and a nobler strain must be composed and sung by us. |
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| But, in the first place, what nobler destiny can you offer to a virtuous woman than to purify, like charcoal, the muddy waters of vice? |
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| The noble woman met with none but common souls in whom the reckoning of actual interests was paramount, and who knew nothing of the nobler calculations of sentiment. |
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| He began to have a nobler opinion of himself than ever before. |
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