The misery of his situation lay in the fact that he was desperately in love with the daughter of people who looked upon him as little better than a pauper.
No matter how many millions are out of employment, the whole world is hunting for a man who can do things; a trained thinker who can do whatever he undertakes a little better than it has ever before been done.
They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better.
You shall hear from me again as soon as I know a little better how it is all likely to end.
Isn't it improper to take your arm until I know you a little betterthan I do now?
In little better than an hour more, the storm was upon us, the thunder was pealing over our heads, and the yacht was running for it.
Remember the experiment involves the claims of millions to that without which life islittle better than a curse.
In Trelawny they appear to be doing a little better; but that only arises, we are confident from the longer purses, and patience of endurance under exorbitant wages, exhibited by the generality of the managers of that parish.
The first thing he could remember was having measles there, and watching day by day, when he was a little better, what went on in the street below.
About this time a ship arrived from France bringing food for the colony, so that for a time things went a little better.
Christmas came and went while they were with these kindly savages, and at length, the weather becoming a little better, they decided to push on.
One of the better cottages sent out a little better light, though only from a tallow candle, through the open upper half of a door horizontally divided in two.
In a lowland parish he would have been regarded as little better than a gifted idiot; in the mountains he was looked upon as a seer, one in communion with higher powers.
She began to feel a little better; the ghastly choking at her heart was almost gone.
But at the Hamar Agricultural Exhibition, where the machine was tried, an American competitor was found to be just a little better.
So warm and fruitful it all seemed, and dear to him as home--though he knew that, after all, he would be little better than a tourist in his own country.
Mr. Stoker's assiduous exhortations; but since she had broken off with him, Miss Silence had looked upon her as little better than a backslider.
I am willing to accept Mr. Bigelow's loyal and honorable defence of his friend's memory as the best that could be said for Mr. Seward, but the best defence in this case is little better than an impeachment.
My third cold is a little better; I never had anything like it before, three colds successively; I hope I shall have the fourth.
Let these mauled bits be intimations of what a little care might have made a little better.
I pitied her; and yet the happiness of knowing her a little better swallowed up my pity.
I see the childishness of all the experiments to which I am subjecting the girl so as to know her a little better.
Yes; if she nods three times it means my wife is a little better.
She is a little better," William whispered to me, almost gaily.
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