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The adjective “larger” is used in literature in a myriad of ways, both to denote physical dimensions and to invoke abstract or symbolic meanings. In some texts, it serves as a straightforward measure of size—a larger part of a farm brought to productivity [1], a dish being much larger than a book [2], or even a building or vessel being described in comparison with another [3, 4]. Yet its usage often transcends mere measurement. Authors employ “larger” to emphasize scale in historical and metaphorical contexts, as when a field of opportunity is described as a much larger one [5] or when it hints at increased power or influence in societal or personal realms [6, 7]. The word can also dramatize transformation or enhancement, such as in depictions of figures growing larger than life [8, 9] or when a natural element like the sun becomes swollen and larger on the horizon [10]. Technical descriptions, too, draw on “larger” to pinpoint distinctions, whether comparing sizes of plant species or engineering structures [11, 12, 13]. Through these varied examples—from literal spatial comparisons [3, 14] to metaphors of expansion and significance [15, 16, 17]—“larger” proves to be an adaptable descriptor that deepens the reader's understanding of both physical realities and more abstract, thematic elements.
  1. I have succeeded in making the larger part of my farm much more productive than it ever was before, since it was cleared from the original forest.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  2. The dish was a huge one, and was much larger than the book on which I placed it.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. The windows are larger than those of the earlier style, and are filled with geometrical and flowing tracery of great variety and beauty.
    — from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield
  4. These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie.
    — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  5. But the situation of the latter opened a much larger field for the exercise of those virtues.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  6. A government founded on principles more consonant to the wishes of the larger States, is not likely to be obtained from the smaller States.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  7. The attendance was larger and the children were a shade cleaner this week.
    — from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
  8. But the other swiftly strode from ridge to ridge, Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walked, Larger than human on the frozen hills.
    — from Idylls of the King by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
  9. She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  10. And in the evening, when the sun, swollen crimson and growing larger, bent its way toward the west, blind Lazarus slowly groped after it.
    — from Best Russian Short Stories
  11. The Coffea liberica tree is much larger and sturdier than the Coffea arabica , and in its native haunts it reaches a height of 30 feet.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  12. The plant differs widely from both arabica and liberica , being considerably larger than either.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  13. Thus, a machine of the larger kind will be set in position, with its ropes in their places about it, and its stays attached to the piles.
    — from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
  14. He seated himself at the end of an alley leading into one of the larger streets.
    — from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis
  15. Connection, relationship with a larger whole, is already involved.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  16. We observe that they entered into one part of Greek literature, but not into another, and that the larger part is free from such associations.
    — from Symposium by Plato
  17. An anonymous writer, supposed by Luden to be M. Becker, conceives that it was intended as an episode in his larger history.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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