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Example sentences for "twere better"

  • Twere better thus, perhaps, than prolong either; I'm sick of one, perchance of both.

  • And if I did, 'twere better than a trophy, Being bought without a tear.

  • Perhaps 'twere better to fly, while there is yet time!

  • He asks you to go, my lord; 'twere better to do so far.

  • Now he commands me to complete my task; My royal master's brow is still uncrowned, 'Twere better for me I had ne'er been born!

  • And if I did, 'twere better for my peace.

  • Twere better to have them of fustian, quoth my father.

  • Twere better to keep ideas of baldness out of her fancy.

  • Again the voice spake unto me: "Thou art so steep'd in misery, Surely 'twere better not to be.

  • Twere better I should cease; Although myself could almost take [9] The place of him that sleeps in peace.

  • Twere better not to breathe or speak, Than cry for strength, remaining weak, And seem to find, but still to seek.

  • Tis very true, said I--but 'twere better to get all these things out of our heads, and return to my uncle Toby.

  • I find 'tis vain to press my suit at present, An humour this, to which 'twere better yield.

  • Twere better sure, to sift this matter calmly; Passion but mars the purpose it pursues.

  • Twere better to have liv'd whole years in penitence, Or wild despair, to expiate your guilt.

  • Twere better to expire in misery, Than live to suffer never-ending pains.

  • Twere better, Recha, to look out betimes For one to start with you on equal terms, And stake his life for thine.

  • Have proved their love for us, have ne'er deceived, Except in cases where 'twere better so?

  • But in some things 'Twere better to go wrong by others' guidance Than, by our own, go right.

  • I could kill thee 'twere better for us all!

  • Perhaps 'twere better if he did," replied the Sufi boldly.

  • Twere better, by thrice deuce-ace, in a weeke every woman could awe her husband so well as she.

  • He is not dead outright, but pleas'd it God, Twere better he had left this wicked world, Then to live thus in this extremitie.

  • Twere better, my Lord, you did perswade her to think you another Cicero, so you might claim some interest in her now and then.

  • Twere better that ye tended / rather your guests aright, Bearing to lords at table / choice food that fitteth well, And suffered me these tidings / unto my masters dear to tell.

  • Beneath in hell 'twere better / the Devil had her by his side!

  • The warriors from Rhine river / did here such victory win That for their foes 'twere better / if they such meeting ne'er had seen.

  • Nay, 'twere better methinks to hold, That they were naught but pain and sorrow, that vanquished the hero bold.

  • On my knightly honour fair I pledged my word--An I fail me, 'twere better methinks to die.

  • Yet he may be trusted, I think--but still 'twere better not.

  • Perhaps 'twere better to go back; and yet, in this blinding deluge, I might again miss the road, and wander Heaven knows whither.

  • Nay, now I think of it, 'twere better to gather in the wood upon the hill before the castle, especially if the soldiers follow you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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