distinctlier

Example Sentences

• "[…] / And, as they stretched him on the stone of blood, Did the huge trumpet of the God, with voice / Loud as the thunder-peal, and heard as far, / Proclaim the act of death, more visible / Than in broad day-light, by those midnight fires / Distinctlier seen."
• "Nor from the land / Less awful was the scene. Distinctlier there / We saw and heard with what hydraulic skill / The dreadless fireman combated the flame, / Unheedful he of peril."
• "Then my own way / Bless me—a firmer arm, a fleeter foot, / I’ll thank you, but to no mad wings transmute / These limbs of mine—our greensward is too soft; / Nor camp I on the thunder-cloud aloft— / We feel the bliss distinctlier having thus / Engines subservient, not mixed up with us— / Better move palpably through Heaven—nor, freed / Of flesh forsooth, from space to space proceed / ’Mid flying synods of worlds—but in Heaven’s marge / Show Titan still, recumbent o’er his targe / Solid with stars—the Centaur at his game / Made tremulously out in hoary flame!"
• "There is a whisper ringing clear / In every sleepless listener’s ear, / A whisper of but scanty cheer, / And heard distinctlier every year— / “You might have been—you might have been.”"
• "Instead of that his hot hand suddenly seized mine and his dull-shining eyes swept my face for a moment, whilst he cried out, much loudlier and distinctlier than he had as yet spoken anything: “Edith! Ah, Edith, this is you at last. Where have you been keeping yourself?”"
• "And then, as when our words seem all too rude / We cease from speech, to take our thought and brood / Back in our heart’s great dark and solitude, / So sank the strings to heartwise throbbing, / Of long chords change-marked with sobbing— / Motherly sobbing, not distinctlier heard / Than half wing-openings of the sleeping bird, / Some dream of danger to her young hath stirred."