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What Captain Cromwell calls our baser instincts, I suppose, and I suppose it will end in tears, but that does not preclude the joy.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Sidney has small patience with those who would limit art by the banishment of all that recalls the baser side of life.

English literary criticism Various

Old J.hn J. Calumny himself never coined a baser one.

Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Peter Newell 1910

History hardly recalls a baser figure than that of Simon

A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

We have resolutely to stop our ears to the baser, which is often the louder.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868

We construct elaborate rituals what have been called our 'baser' functions, but why?

Archive 2008-02-01 David Hadley 2008

Heber's comment develops a lengthy portrait of "the mind of the savage" as Manichean and prey to "baser" moments such as the worship of priests, wizards, Furies, and witches.

Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

This was written in the old-fashioned days, when art was aristocratic and excluded the "baser" and more painful emotions.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

The emergency of modern life has forced him into that position and brought him down to that kind of baser kind of a life - just like the Joker has proven that the horrors of modern life could do it to Harvey Dent.

dailytarheel.com - Serving the University community since 1893 cmccall 2010

The problem with the U of C action is that it is cowardly and resorts to the 'baser' and more 'vulgar' means of using force, threat and intimidation, rather than using reason, argument and debate.

MercatorNet Mark Milke And Marco Navarro-Genie Barry Cooper 2009