wildlier

Definitions

comparative form of wildly: more wildly

comparative, form-of, uncommon

Examples

“How is the Earth about her Axis turn’d? The Sun or it in Motion moſt concern’d? How is it faſten’d, if it does not move⟳? How, if it does? And why not wildlier rove?”

“Even if at times a recollection of Sir Paris and Helen would make⟳ the wishes of his heart flame up more boldly and wildlier, yet he needed only a glance⟳ at the scarf and sword, and the stream of his inner life forthwith glided along, clear as a mirror, and cheerful.”

“At dead of night — a winter night — / Death bestrode the blast, / And conscious Arno’s high-swoln river / Swelled wildlier as he past; / On black and heavy vans he took his flight.”

Evening Newspaper for the Year 1822

“Yet oh, though no more thine eye glances / An ardent untroubled confession, / It has something that wildlier entrances, / A fonder, a deeper expression.”

“Spring⟳ soon will come⟳ / And bring⟳ their bloom / To bursting flowers;— / Many a silver beam / Crescent moons will stream / On dewy bowers. / Shall they light⟳ a sweeter, / Wildlier-happy, scene, / Than where, mute with passion, / On this breast you lean⟳ / Bathed with moonlight sheen,— / And I pray, / “Love⟳ me, May?””

“The cheering was then renewed, and throats were opened wider than before, and palms met together in harder clap; and hats and Kerchiefs were wildlier flung about, and all things were made more extravagant; […]”

“The scenery of Earth hath might to dart / Angelic longing thro’ the sluggish vein; / But quicker, wildlier thrills and throbs the heart / Who steers his bark forth on the mighty main / Of mind⟳: O! wanderer, why seek⟳ Earth again?”

“And wildlier sighs each evening grey that hastes / From the black brow of still encroaching night; […]”

“Or where poor Virtue, ’neath the ban / Of some mishap, lay⟳ bare and bound; / Or where some wildlier, erring one, / The path to purer life had found— / There bent our Good Samaritan, / With oil and wine o’er every wound!”

“Till it ſeemed deſpair changed ſhape, and grew delight, / Whenever the proxy-wail of the chafed waves white / Took heart for a ſtronger guſt, and writhed on high / Wildlier, and the whole ſea-chorus infinite / Sated her gluttonous grief with a vaſter cry⟳.”

“Now, the lone Square is blind with gloom: / Now, on that clustering chestnut bloom, / A cloudy moonlight plays, and falls / In glory upon Bodley’s walls: / Now, wildlier yet, while moonlight pales, / Storm the tumultuary gales.”

“The glimmering twilight slowly deepened, / Wildlier tossed the sea; […]”

“Second Leader [wildly]. Yes, let⟳ us rebel! let⟳ us rebel! […] Second Leader [wildlier]. So! It is so!”

“Deborah my darling!—mine no longer / But a missioned angel of the Lord! / For her arm rose wildlier and stronger / Than the wielder of the fiery sword.”

“[…] the shame, the dismay at being seen by all those people, let⟳ loose at the same time a special physical anguish of its own⟳—a finer-footed, wildlier-fluttering sensation that was no longer a moth, but some huge beetle, revolting to the touch⟳, and yet revoltingly delicious.”

“Would wildlier sing⟳ dark’s nightingale / Where Hera’s golden apples grow⟳?”

“The following sentences are intended as a review⟳ exercise in both adverbs and adjectives, the former chiefly. Rewrite⟳ them correctly, explaining what is wrong with them as they stand⟳: […] He drove wildlier than usually, and thereafter we never met again.”

“Had passion voice, why then the strange delight / Ev’n an hour may bring⟳ would pæans indite; / And, seeing no words these mercies could requite, / Age pines, in talk⟳, to skirt the infinite; / As birds sing⟳ wildlier when it draws towards night.”

“Enright, D[ennis] J[oseph]: […] Singing Wildlier”

“Now how come⟳ I've owned Paperclip for over 4000 miles and I've Never had better then^([sic]) 29 and I'm averaging around 26-27 mpg. Is something the matter⟳? For all I know⟳ it runs fine.... I drive⟳ a little wildlier then^([sic]) tame but still not like⟳ a maniac. I mean⟳, I hit the redline in first and second on say⟳, every eighth time I'm in those gears. :)”

“when wildly successful cartoonist blows up ignorant teacher, chances are she Wont recognize herself, minor godlingesses of that type⟳ are notoriously short on self awareness; but go ahead & do it anyway, the rest⟳ of us with scars will know⟳ the scenario well enough, applaud loudly & make⟳ you even wildlier successful.”

“And that's only looking at the relatively small minority that uses the roman script. I expect⟳ that in the rest⟳ of the world there are even many more and wildlier different keyboards in common use⟳.”

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