wholesomer

"It is marvellous," he went on, dismissing the future in an effort to shake himself into a wholesomer frame of mind.

CHAPTER 17 2010

Had there been any scandal in the dead man's family, or had his sons been wild or undutiful, then there might have been a glimmering of reason in this most unusual action; but Eben Hale's domestic happiness had been proverbial in the community, and one would have to travel far and wide to discover a cleaner, saner, wholesomer progeny of sons and daughters.

The Minions of Midas 2010

Ghosts was no attack on society, but an effort to place the responsibilities of men and women on a wholesomer and surer footing, by direct reference to the relation of both to the child.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

If he walk, let him go gently; it will be wholesomer for him and better for his body and more in accordance with the saying of the Almighty, ‘Walk not proudly on the earth.’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Ghosts was no attack on society, but an effort to place the responsibilities of men and women on a wholesomer and surer footing, by direct reference to the relation of both to the child.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

When they were all gone, and when Trabb and his men — but not his Boy; I looked for him — had crammed their mummery into bags, and were gone too, the house felt wholesomer.

Great Expectations 2007

Richmond, in our province, and went thither, as Williamsburg is no wholesomer than our own place; and there I mended a little, but still did not get quite well, and the physicians strongly counselled a sea-voyage.

The Virginians 2006

I look upon wine and water to be, in every respect; much wholesomer.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Pray leave off entirely your greasy, heavy pastry, fat creams, and indigestible dumplings; and then you need not confine yourself to white meats, which I do not take to be one jot wholesomer than beef, mutton, and partridge.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

It is built among a company of craggy hills, which makes the air the hungrier and wholesomer; it is all built of freestone and marble, and that with such solidity and moderate height that surely

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004