Now, this contempt of money was, no doubt, a pose, if not a habit of the aristocratic society of the time, and Shakespeare may have been aping the tone of his betters in putting to show a most lavish generosity.
But even if his social superiors encouraged him in a wasteful extravagance, it must be admitted that Shakespeare betters their teaching.
We listened to him very earnestly, for we like to hear from our betters about things that are beyond us, and to be roused up now and then, like sheep with a good dog after them, who can pull some wool without biting.
But alas, my money was getting low; and the privilege of seeing my betters was more and more denied to me, as my cash drew shorter.
Rose dropped a courtesy, as she had been taught to do to her betters in social position.
Expects her betters to go and learn their hornbook of her.
No such man of mark, and meet With his betters to compete!
Friend, you mistake my station: I observe The game, watch how my betters play, no more.
But there my triumph's straw-fire flared and funked; Their betters took their turn to see and say: The Prior and the learned pulled a face And stopped all that in no time.
Oh lark, be day's apostle To mavis, merle and throstle, Bid them theirbetters jostle From day and its delights!
Who was it dared lay hand upon the ark His betters saw fall nor put finger forth?
But when you've got a son so masterful and stopping medicines as Providence has sent, and his betters have been taking up and down the country since before he was a baby, it's o' no use being good here below.
She has despised his betters before now; but I leave you to judge whether a young man who has taken to low ways of getting a living can pay for fine cambric handkerchiefs and light kid gloves.
So I'll just mak' you a present of an auld Latin grammar, and ye maun begin where your betters ha' begun before you.
But at that time, as I have confessed already, we took ourbetters at their word, and believed in Morison's Pills.
To overhear my betters is the thing of all things most against my nature; and my poor lady being unfit to get up, there was nothing said on the landing, which is the weakest part of gentlefolks.
When our English mechanics accuse their betters of oppressing them, the said betters should reverse the old appeal, and refer from Philip sober to Philip drunk; and then nothing more could be said.
If our betters play at that game, we must not dare To imitate them.
If I would make any alteration, it should be only to reform the numbers thus: Our betters play that game; we must not dare T' imitate then; faults that are rich are fair.
I love to amuse myself in its plaster Golgothas, and listen to the glib professor, as he discovers by his manipulations "All that disgraced my betters met in me.
But it ought to be added that if the pleasure of denying the genius of their betters were denied to the mediocrities, their happiness would be forever blighted.
I have a helpless habit of the mind, A trick of mimicry that masters me; When I observe in them what I admire, I can not but my betters imitate.
Die, die, then; for your Betters must be served before you.
Everybody, down to the poorest, claiming a right to think for himself, and set his betters right!
I was the company of your betters in those days: and if there had been no betters in the case, I should have scorned you.
I am no childe, no babe, Your betters haue indur'd me say my minde, And if you cannot, best you stop your eares.
But since mybetters are of a different opinion, and desire farther dependencies, I shall outwardly submit; yet still insisting in my own heart, upon the exception I made of M.
I can live better than many others; I have some gold and silver by me, and a shop well furnished; and shall be able to make a shift when many of my betters are starving.
Come, then, this scene is for ourbetters to depict.
Certain it is that the young woman would never have been immortalised in this way, but for the good which her betters may derive from her example.
Those that Murray had thus placed, seconded his little dirty views: it was their interest, too, to keep their betters at a distance from the Prince's person and acquaintance.
Nay, how shall I scold you, who do what your betters teach?
You shall go, as your betters have gone, to feed your eyes with these abominations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
