Smooth-cheeked boys, some of them with faces of stone and mouths of sin,
not nearly so pathetic as the grey heads, tried to find the girl's eyes in the smoke wreaths.
Maggie A Girl of the Streets
Goring is
not nearly so pretty a little spot to stop at as Streatley, if you have your choice; but it is passing fair enough in its way, and is nearer the railway in case you want to slip off without paying your hotel bill.
Three Men In A Boat
The first stall was a large square one, shut in behind with a wooden gate; the others were common stalls, good stalls, but
not nearly so large; it had a low rack for hay and a low manger for corn; it was called a loose box, because the horse that was put into it was not tied up, but left loose, to do as he liked.
Black Beauty
"Oh yes!" cried Clara, expressing a woman's feeling of the point in question; "the history of a country is
not nearly so interesting as that of a single family would be."
Grandfathers Chair
He was not sleepy and it was still
not nearly morning.
War and Peace
At the laundry I was suffering physical exhaustion again, and physical exhaustion that was
not nearly so profound as that of the coal-shovelling.
John Barleycorn
Thou lovest me
not nearly so much as thou sayest; I know thou thinkest of soon leaving me.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
This was one of the greatest things which ever happened for literature, for books then became much more plentiful and were
not nearly so dear as they had been, and so many more people could afford to buy them.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line,
not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
Great Expectations
The farms were
not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
None of the mis-siles struck us, for Hooja's archers were
not nearly the marksmen that are my Sarians and Amozites.
Pellucidar
It is nothing so petty as lost wills or deeds of violence that brings them back, and we are
not nearly so afraid of them as they are of us.
The Little White Bird
Aladdin,--that my dress is an inch longer than last year, and my hair different; but I'm
not nearly a young lady yet; truly I'm not.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
She is
not nearly so dangerous in the open as when she has the dark to protect her.
Lair of the White Worm
The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are
not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous.
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