202 collocations for best

until, to restrain my aggravated mother from fits, I promised to follow you to your guardian's and ascertain what your good-bye note would have meant if it had actually been punctuated.

So good a business man to lose the chance that comes once only in a life!

Having this authority from her, and being very solicitous about the success of the application, I thought, that if the weight of so good a wife, mother, and sister, as Mrs. Harlowe is known to be, were thrown into the same scale with that of Mr. John Harlowe (supposing he could be engaged) it could hardly fail of making a due impression.

However obscure the birth of Lincoln, and untoward as were all the circumstances which environed him, he was doubtless born ambitious, that is, with a strong and unceasing desire to "better his condition."

It is the good Lord, let Him do what seemeth Him good.

A new way to better golf.

And when he had set up his great gallows and hanged it full with our men, he vowed that, should Belsaye anger him again, he would burn the city and all within it and, O my lord, my lordI have yet a daughterAh, good my lord, leave us not to ravishment and death!" "Aye, go not from us, my lord!" cried the others.

I look upon the address then to be ill-judged, however good the intention of the framers.

Freemen, arouse ye, before it's too late; Slavery is knocking, at every gate, Make good the promise, your early days gave, Boston boys!

He told us that Lady Errol was one of the most pious and sensible women in the island; had a good head, and as good a heart.

And who so good a judge as Helen the Beautiful, whose lovers were beyond count, knights and nobles and princelings, ever kneeling at her haughty feet, ever sighing forth vows of service and adoration, in whose honour many a stout lance had shivered, and many a knightly act been wrought?

The officers made good their retreat, and the adjutant got into the stable where his horse was.

Now he who knows old Christmas, He knows a carle of worth; For he is as good a fellow As any upon earth.

I learn with pleasure that my soul is dearer to you than my body and that your common sense is always leading you upward to better things.

Captain Rheid had planned his house and was determined he said that the "women folks" should have room enough to move around in and be comfortable; he believed in having the "galley" as good a place to live in as the "cabin.

In fact all the other characters remain essentially the same, while Scrooge, who at the beginning is unfriendly and friendless, becomes at the end "as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world."

And this change had given so much pleasure to all parties concerned that it was natural that so good a woman as Mrs. Tolbridge should feel a glow of satisfaction in thinking of the part she had taken in it.

Other things being equal, I see no reason why a Highness shouldn't make as good a husband as a plain American.

mighty well an' good your reason for treating me this-a-way.

'There is some sense in what you say, for no one makes so good a servant as the man who has had a thorough fright.

Towards evening, as they reached the western end of the pass, three men, evidently an outpost of the enemy, were seen to bolt from behind some rocks and make good their escape, in spite of an attempt by the Levies to catch them.

I tell you what I did tother Day: Faith't is as good a Jest as ever you heard.

Better the certainty that the desert sands, far below, would inevitably drift over them, forever burying them from the sight of his people; or better the chance that the Master, after all, really intended to deliver them back into Moslem hands at Bara Jannati Shahr?

He, then, who abandons hope of making good his claims to the first class, will be glad to seize the opportunity of taking a place in the second.

He was a fine spirited young fellow, who went through his laborious occupations with a good-will and cheerfulness which was so satisfactory to his employer that he determined to advance, whenever opportunities offered, so assiduous a servant and good a son.

202 collocations for  best