It would have been better, probably, as the shock would have been less, if prices had fallen sooner.
He began to regret that he had not delayed, to think it all out more thoroughly; perhaps it would have been better to have written.
It would have been better to have left the Indians in possession, to see if they could not have evolved out of their barbarism some new line of action.
Indeed, it would have been better, so the reader may probably come to say to himself, if this attempted disguise had been entirely dispensed with.
In truth, then, it would have been better if her work had been inspired by great spiritual aims and convictions.
It would have been better, perhaps, if I had not started to practise in this State.
He did not hesitate to say that it would have been better if the accident had been fatal.
If there had been an average price fixed at the commencement of the season while I have been fishing, I would have been better satisfied in my own mind, because I would have known what I was working for.
My opinion now is, that it would have been better if the Act had been enforced as it originally stood; and I believe the thing will never be on a satisfactory footing as long as agents who are merchants continue to act as agents.
It would have been better for me if I had bought few or no fish in Scalloway, because the people here cannot get so much as will keep them alive.
Chiefest, however, has often been used where chief would have been better; as, "He sometimes denied admission to the chiefest officers of the army.
KtxP It would have been better to protect the pawn by Q-K2 or P-Q3.
It would have been better, of course, to continue developing with Kt-B3, which at the same time maintains the pressure on Q5.
Black should retain the option of castling QR, in case White exchanges at his KB6; P-QKt3 and B-Kt2 would have been better.
Don't I think it would have been better to have done nothing, than to have tried to form my little wife's mind?
A distrust of myself, which has often beset me in life on small occasions, when it would have been better away, was assuredly not stopped in its growth by this little incident outside the Canterbury coach.
I sometimes think it would have been better for us all, if your ship had never been chased into the river, or, after she was there, if Griffith had made no attempt to renew his acquaintance with my cousin.
It would have been better if we had parted forever then.
He did not see that it would have been better to soothe the interval with a new hope, and prevent the delirium of a too sudden elation.
Baraka, who seemed to think this generosity a bit of insanity, grumbled that if I had cloths to throw away it would have been better had I disposed of them to my own men.
And it would have been better for us,' said the visitor, dropping his voice, 'to have been a lifeless trunk.
He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.
It would have been better, Lyubím Kárpych, to go to your brother, than to live like that.
It would have been better if you hadn't told me, nasty scamp that you are!
I've had only one feeling, that for you, and if I receive ridicule from you, then it would have been better for me never to have lived in this world.
But it's such a tiresome business altogether that I should have thought it would have been better to leave it to the two men.
It would have been better if William had written, saying that he had not understood his objection as serious, or something of that sort.
But it would have been better to report it to Sir William, instead of to me.
Perhaps it would have been better if you had known it at the first.
Then she added, "It would have been better if you had also gone with us.
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