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Example sentences for "nothing better"

  • It is stated as a fact well known that Lord Fylingdale is nothing better than a ruined rake and a notorious gamester.

  • A young man, whose face betrayed the battered rake, would be contented even with carrying the colours on the Cape Coast regiment if nothing better could be had.

  • Before using the product of the horse-stable, I would compost it with at least an equal bulk of leaves, muck, sods, or even plain earth if nothing better could be found.

  • Early in the spring he can cover the surface with some fertilizer--there is nothing better than a rotted compost of muck and barn-yard manure--at the proportion of forty or fifty tons to the acre.

  • There is nothing better than a covering of earth.

  • Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.

  • With the firm determination,” replied the poet, “of thinking of nothing better.

  • Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor.

  • Any increased armament would in that case amount to nothing better than an idle duplication of plant and personnel already on hand and sufficient to meet the requirements.

  • There is nothing better," he observes, "to prevent the bad effects of gnat bites than at once to dilute the liquid they have left in the wound with water.

  • Our make-believe Nun, Preacher, our Prega-Diou, is nothing better than a patient watcher and pitiless destroyer.

  • He went with Franciabigio to Poggio, and executed in terretta the ornaments for all the scenes there in such a way that there is nothing better to be seen.

  • I am sure that she would have asked nothing better than to number him among her lovers.

  • The man who lives here must, in fact, be nothing better than a bear, a person who has no friends to entertain--for no one would ever come to see him.

  • And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines.

  • How completely must David have lost the sense of God's sufficiency when he could say, "There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines.

  • Nothing better for a man of faith than to go back to the world for refuge!

  • This work, I say, if there had been any beauty in the heads, would have been so beautiful that there would have been nothing better to be seen.

  • Besides this, he painted there a building that curves in a circular form after the manner of a theatre, with some statues so beautiful and so well placed that there is nothing better to be seen.

  • Certainly there is nothing better, than for a man to confine himself to necessary actions; to such and so many only, as reason in a creature that knows itself born for society, will command and enjoin.

  • Do any receive your fresh troubles with nothing better than a growl of irritation--I will not say an angry curse?

  • There is nothing better for me than that I should escape speedily into the land of the Philistines.

  • David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines.

  • There is nothing better than a piece of fine old linen rag, unsinged; when singed, it frequently irritates the infant's skin.

  • There is nothing better to relieve the irritation of the skin than a warm bath.

  • Nothing better occurred to her than to stoop at the wayside and pluck the finest field flowers she could reach to offer to him as a farewell gift instead of that other gift, the mere thought of which made her feel like a goose.

  • The fact was suddenly borne in upon her that now she was nothing better than a shop girl, and she grew hot with shame at the thought.

  • But when she saw him, as he sat there with his back curved and his feet turned inward, causing bulbs to appear and disappear on the soft leather of his riding boots where they covered his big toes, nothing better occurred to her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being heated; deliverance from; for all practical purposes; general debility; long pole; nothing about; nothing against; nothing better; nothing could; nothing doing; nothing doubting; nothing for; nothing further; nothing less; nothing like; nothing remarkable; nothing should; nothing very; nothing whatever; nothing would; nothing wrong; received them; sailing west; secondary importance; should have; small telescope