Literary notes about larger (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The plant differs widely from both arabica and liberica , being considerably larger than either.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - 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 - 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 - Connection, relationship with a larger whole, is already involved.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - 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 - 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