“What on earth do they think they are doing, this legion of barers of poets' souls: apart, of course, from making a few bob for, and enhancing the reputations of, their publishers and themselves?”
adj
comparative, form-ofcomparative form of bare: more bare
“All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grade”