The thing might be suspicious, but the new parson knew better than to peril his influence by charging where he could not convict.
They were all disappointed, but the residents had better luck than they had hoped.
Don't let me 'ave no more o' that, or you'd better not come near me agin.
So he duly commiserated Hannah Perrott's troubles, suggested that the baby seemed unwell and had better be taken to a doctor, and went his way about the Jago.
Far better to have struck out boldly across the streets by Columbia Market to the canal: who could have seen the smears in the darkness?
Nothing would have pleased both Ranns and Learys better than to knock over two or three policemen, for kicking-practice; but there were too many for the sport, and for hours they patrolled the Jago's closest passages.
Billy not four or five inches the better in height and a commensurate advantage in reach?
Indeed Hannah Perrott filled her place in the Jago better than of old.
Nobody better than Mother Gapp could quell an ordinary bar riot--even to knocking a man down with a pot; but she knew better than to attempt interference now.
It would have beenbetter rigidly to exact the rent, and return it in lump to each tenant as he left.
Is there a child in all this place that wouldn't be better dead--still better unborn?
The large bodega is better situated than the small cultivator for organizing the sale of his wines on the distant market of Buenos Aires.
They have helped to mask the inferiority of the new land to the better land in the east.
Improvement in the methods of exploiting the soil--the adoption of better agricultural machinery, dry farming, etc.
The pasture grows all the better because the herd is smaller, and the Llanos give the traveller who crosses them an exaggerated impression of their natural wealth.
As colonization improved, the breeder, and subsequently the farmer, were better equipped for boring wells, and no longer feared drought.
Wheat and maize seem to be permanently associated, and the climate is equally good for both; the maize crop being the better if the summer is wet, and the wheat crop when the summer is dry.
The lands on the right bank of the Sali are consequently better provided with water than those on the left bank.
It is better supplied with capital than the other breeding districts, and can rapidly replace the losses caused by excessive export by buying cattle in the adjoining provinces.
The obrajes of cedar-wood now extend twenty miles or so on the Argentine bank, and forty miles in the Paraguay bank, which is more even and better for transport.
It is remarkable that the Amazon, which opens a more direct and betterroute to the Andes, was never used for reaching Peru.
Their progeny, born on the spot, resist Texas fever better and can be put out to pasture.
The most arid and desolate regions round the oases breed only goats and asses; but as soon as the soil improves sufficiently to give a better vegetation, it is found good enough for a hardy and tenacious breed of horned cattle.
A better caramel can be made with white sugar, and milk instead of water.
A little further advice concerning the treatment of hogs when penned for fattening; hogs should be penned on rolling ground if possible; they fatten better and consume less corn; they should be salted twice a week.
The lion and tiger prosper among vicious beasts, but the child and lamb survive better where love, mercy and righteousness reign.
However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it; and, though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
It looks better than paint and is as durable as slate.
Yet I am not sure but that poorly chosen books arebetter not read than read.
Your college has helped to add fame to your city, and those who assemble here are supposed to come in order that they may better equip themselves for the duties of life.
Yes, I admit that under any law, and under any conditions, those who are best suited to the conditions under which they live will get on better than those who are not so well suited by nature to combat for existence and prosperity.
Having got the picture all traced out, pour upon it some weak acid if you use zinc, which is too soft to print many from, therefore it is better to use copper or steel.
When the cream is first done it appears flaky and coarse; but the next morning it is fine, and the longer it sets the better it is.
We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves.
He could now see betterin the darkness, and finding himself at last at the foot of the staircase began to ascend it noiselessly.
The weight of the gun and the extra ammunition carried renders their movements slower than that of their comrades, and consequently the teams offer a better target as well as one specially sought for by the enemy.
This march was neither betternor worse than its fellows, and we had covered some fourteen miles before we halted at dawn.
With the spring came better times, and at Neuve Chappelle a fine victory was won at small cost, but on the 9th of May the Battalion suffered heavily in making an attack from the Orchard in front of the Rue-de-Bois.
Of the many awards given to the Battalion I doubt if any werebetter deserved than the D.
The ground was little better than a bog from the rain of the previous day; with very little rain the whole countryside seems to become a quagmire.
If it had no force to prevent us from submitting to this necessary war, it furnishes no better ground for our making an unnecessary and ruinous peace.
Only that it is better expressed, it perfectly agrees with the opinion I have taken the liberty of submitting to your consideration.
From having this before us, we may be better able to determine on the first question I proposed,--that is, How far nations called foreign are likely to be affected with the system established within that territory.
The whole college of the states of Europe is no better than a gang of tyrants.
By a strange, uncalled-for declaration, they pronounced that marriage was no better than a common civil contract.
Endeavoring to persuade the people that they are no better than beasts, the whole body of their institution tends to make them beasts of prey, furious and savage.
He thought it better, as better it was, to assuage his bruised dignity with half a yard square of balmy diplomatic diachylon.
I myself came off better than most: I had about the fourth of a crop of pease.
Not to lose ourselves in the infinite void of the conjectural world, our business is with what is likely to be affected, for the better or the worse, by the wisdom or weakness of our plans.
I have a good opinion of the general abilities of the Jacobins: not that I suppose them better born than others; but strong passions awaken the faculties; they suffer not a particle of the man to be lost.
The more resinous kinds resist the dissolving action of wine better than those that are but slightly resinous.
A better quality of wrought iron, therefore, has long been a desideratum, and it appears now that it has at last been found.
One plan for a better basket was to have more than one wall.
Indeed, a wrought iron of fine quality is better calculated to endure fatigue than any steel.
Stendhal said that Shakespeare knew the human heart better than Racine; yet despite his English preferences, Stendhal is a psychologist of the Racinien school.
A better description of Baudelaire does not exist.
But his aristocrats are no better than his ecclesiastics or bankers.
He had travelled to England in an easy-chair, as mentioned by Goldsmith--better after all than not travelling at all.
It is better to believe and be on the safe side than be damned if you do not believe; for if there is no hereafter your believing that there is will not matter one way or the other.
There was Rousseau, who confessed things that the world would be better without having heard.
Diable; or the Baudelaire of George Moore: "the clean-shaven face of the mock priest, the slow cold eyes and the sharp cunning sneer of the cynical libertine who will be tempted that he may better know the worthlessness of temptation.
John Stuart Mill wrote in his famous essay on liberty that "Society has now got the better of the individual.
If a man cannot sing as he carries his cross, he had better drop it," advises Havelock Ellis.
It is far betterthat all these points should be discussed as disinterestedly as possible.
Some of these are thought by Volkmar and Hilgenfeld to be more original and to have a better right to stand in the text than those which are at present found there.
In order to prove the second side of this alternative, it is necessary to show not merely that it is possible that they were not used, but that the theory is the more probable of the two, and accounts better for the facts.
We have now an instrument in our hands by which to test the alleged quotations in the early writers; and, rough and approximate as that instrument must still be admitted to be, it is at least much better than none at all.
This is perhaps what we should expect: in longer quotations it would be better worth the writer's while to refer to his cumbrous manuscript.
Like Hegesippus, Papias may be described as 'an ancient and apostolic man,' and appears to have better deserved the title.
Does his statement accord anybetter with the phenomena of the first Gospel?
How can we better dispose of this relic of affectionate remembrance, than by depositing it in the bank of Christ, who always pays the best interest, and never fails.
This time, however, it appeared to us better to delay for a while both the public meetings and the publishing of the Report.
It tends to the glory of God; for the leaving out some chapters here and there, is practically saying, that certain portions are better than others: or, that there are certain parts of revealed truth unprofitable or unnecessary.
They loved the tavern better than the church, and in truth the church folk did not love them well, for they were suspected of entertaining heresies of the most forbidden character.
As he suffered no harm from the contest and became a better fiddler than ever, it is supposed that the recording angel did not inscribe his feat of Sabbath breaking against him in large letters.
Hard as was the ordeal, confusing, frightening, humiliating, the bride came through it a better woman.
Henry Clay found an Eton, and an Oxford in Old Virginia that werebetter for him than those of Old England.
The uniform sense of Congress and the country furnishes better evidence of the true interpretation of the Constitution than the most refined and subtle arguments.
He liked great Rome far better than refined Greece, and revelled in the immense things of literature, such as Paradise Lost, and the Book of Job, Burke, Dr.
The master proceeded to experiment with the sap, but soon discovered, that the handsome white cloth made of it bore the heat nobetter than that which was produced in the usual manner.
We may be better off under an Emperor,--we could not be worse off as a nation than we are now.
Better men will live in it than have ever yet lived there; but it will not be in this century, and possibly not in the next.
The foremen testify that he was a great plague to them, and smeared their works with his sticky compound; but, though they all regarded him as little better than a troublesome lunatic, they all appear to have helped him very willingly.
If there were such a thing as going apprentice to the art of discovering truth, a master in that art could not set an apprentice a better preliminary lesson than this: Why did John Randolph go into opposition in 1807?
No man was more restive under debt than he, or has better depicted its horrors.
He was never better pleased than when he entertained Mr. Clay at his own house.
It's very chilly; I believe I had better go and lie down on the bed.
Better if every mother and father were in certain ways an expert in child psychology and hygiene.
The special gymnastics necessary, or, better still, hygienic, in this period of life, refer chiefly to walking.
The underfed workman does not ask for a tonic, but for better economic conditions which shall prevent malnutrition.
Nor can such work succeed in its purpose unless some common advantage or interest unites all of the tenants in an effort toward better things.
And they answer so much the better this last most important condition if they are fresh and intact, keeping in themselves, one may say, the life of the animals which produced them.
But for younger children a regime of complete freedom would seem to promise better results--at least so far as work with objects is concerned.
He to whom such stimuli are necessary, had far better never become a physician.
On this level, later, language continues the process of perfecting in proportion as the hearing perceives better the component sounds of the words and the psycho-motor channels become more permeable to articulation.
This ideal love is made incarnate by Frederick Nietzsche, in the woman of Zarathustra, who conscientiously wished her son to be better than she.
Indeed, the first announcement of the "Children's House" was followed by a deluge of letters from persons of the better class demanding that these helpful reforms be extended to their dwellings.
He adjusts his feet to a better position, and this makes a noise!
So much the better if this touch can be accompanied by her voice, and the children left free to follow her, no one being obliged to sing.
I arrived unexpectedly; for some instinct told me that it would be better to give Isabella no notice of my coming into her neighbourhood.
The wisdom that cometh in the morning had, in fact, forced me to conclude that the search for the miscreant was better left in the hands of Mr. Sander and his professional assistants.
Some of them look up to us when we know in our hearts that we are no better than asses.
I was still under displeasure--still learning that the better sort of woman will not forgive deception so long as she herself is its motive, as cheap cynics would have us believe.
Has not a great writer said that a dead sorrow is better than a living one?
But one's grand friends are better kept for fine weather only, and the official had to content himself with the company of a private secretary and the son of a ruined financier.
At such times a man is better alone--is it not so?
Vy, you had better ax my crakter of the young gent I saw you talking with just now; he knows me.
What bettercould I expect when I set up for a critic?
I had hopedbetter things when I got your promise to pass one season in London; but, indeed, you have kept your promise to the ear to break it to the spirit.
Be better presently, but should not travel, want rest; you should be in bed.
But I have given up that idea; I have something better for you.
Your new men are much betterfriends to living authors than your old families who live in the country, and at most subscribe to a book-club.
There was a cornet in my regiment, who would have done better not to have come into it.
Benefiting by the advice which so lavishly was bestowed upon him, he presently became--as even the most critical of the women were forced to admit--a much better mother to the little Roschen than many a real mother might have been.
And so, as he listened to the singing of his bird, gentler and better thoughts possessed him; and then he reproached himself for the selfishness that had so filled his heart.
She said that without sentimentalism, without making it a plea for sympathy; she had better sense, he saw, than to imagine that she could arouse sympathy on that ground.
The judge was in better condition than the others for connected narrative, Arthur Sloane had sunk into a morris chair, where he sighed audibly and plied himself by fits and starts with the aroma from the bottle of smelling salts.
I thought I'd have a better night's sleep if I got out and cooled off thoroughly.
When he left Pursuit, he destroyed the better part of me--what you would call the good part.
Garnet calls for you, I think you'd better testify very frankly, tell them about the footsteps you heard.
But the automatisms of her body worked betterthan her overtaxed brain.
But," he softened the sternness of his tone, "he must have a reason, a better one than I can think of now.
If she told him only a part of what she knew, he would be scarcely in a better position than before.
It is better that his thoughts should have been committed to enduring print, where they remain to be reviewed hereafter by the light of fact.
On one occasion he exclaimed, with an unwonted outburst of glee, 'Tom, I do not grudge thy schooling, now when thy Uncle Frank owns thee to be a better Arithmetician than himself.
And if she sacrificed her own vanity for personal distinction, in order to make his work possible for him, who shall say she did not choose the nobler and better part?
Autumn brought Carlyle back to Cheyne Row, when he found his wife in better health, delighted to have him again at her side.
He had money about him and it perhaps turns out that there really was a man at the crack in the door--a clever brigand who to-day has got the better of our vain-glorious friend.
He could feel a strange thrill of exaltation shooting through his veins; he knew as well as he knew anything that he was destined to create commotion in that stately crowd, even against his better judgment.
She was in the outer room for the better part of an hour, listening to Anna Cromer and Madame Drovnask, who dinned the praises of the great Count Marlanx into her ears until she was ready to scream.
He agreed to carry them along the way, at his best speed, until they came up with better beasts or reached the city gates.
Be sure of it, he did not decide to slide from Vos Engo's horse until he saw a way clear to better his position, and at the same time to lessen the glory of his unpleasant rescuer.
Better have Jim, here, put on the spare when he gets through.
Unseen by PIKE, she pulls up the awning for a better view, and drops lace curtains inside of window so as to screen herself from observation.
From this journal, I shall make copious extracts, believing that words then written will reproduce the situation better than any subsequent description from memory.
I was about to put my head out of the window, but was forcibly informed that I'd better not, unless I wanted it shot off.
Go to your room and consider of things, Betty Hanson, till 'ee be come to a better frame of mind!
That he was better bred than Mr. Coombe and Mr. Jobson was obvious, that he could talk a good deal better than any of them Allan at least knew, but it pleased Scarsdale to hold his tongue and keep himself much in the background.
Yet she knew, better that he went back, better that in the years to come they should never meet again.
The country would do him no harm, he would be all thebetter by the change.
A man who thrusts the thing behind him and leaves it all in the hands of Fate is little better than a coward, and Allan Homewood was no coward.
Better that she should go, but poor child, how unfair to her.
Perhaps Miss Martineau's history is not much better than Volney's, but her brisk sense is preferable to Volney's high à priori declamation and artificial rhetoric.
Came a Spirit on them then, Better than of mighty men, A Spirit faithful, pure and mild, A Spirit fit for king and child.
He did not know I was on fire within: Better he should not; so his sin was less.
How I loved him best of all, I whom men his leman call; Better knew his body fair Than the mother which him bare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "better" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
