rather

Entertain hopes; mirth

rather

than joy; variety of delights,

rather

than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.

JEMIMA alighted

rather

heavily, and began to waddle about in search of a convenient dry nesting-place.

Such humble furniture as there may once have been and much of the lower weatherboarding, had served as fuel in the camp fires of hunters; as had also, probably, the curbing of an old well, which at the time I write of existed in the form of a

rather

wide but not very deep depression near by.

The person who keeps the establishment, or whatever they call it, is

rather

odd, and EXCEEDINGLY FOREIGN; but she is wonderfully civil, and is perpetually sending to my door to see if I want anything.

Anne was feeling

rather

sleepy after the party Ruby Gillis had given the night before.

Since you’re likely to have

rather

a smoky, unpleasant time of it at Newcastle for the next few weeks, you’ll want a good prospect of some sort to keep up your spirits.”

After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were

rather

belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.

She was really

rather

shocked to find it definitely established that her own second cousin, Cyril Alardyce, had lived for the last four years with a woman who was not his wife, who had borne him two children, and was now about to bear him another.

“I think I knew them,” said Michael

rather

doubtfully.

A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue,

rather

than double as some maintain.

That makes no difference since it exists in my desires, or

rather

exists as long as my desires exist.

And so he was; but I am obliged to admit that the object of his reverence was his own skill, towards which he performed some

rather

affecting acts of worship.