124 collocations for better

The problem now is, not for Catholic and Protestant to waste energy and spiritual strength in contending for mastery over each other, but for them to unite in changing and bettering the condition of our island peoples.

"I left them to better my fortune," he continued.

There was the Jesuit bending over the fire, bettering the precarious position of a saucepan that insisted on sitting lop-sided, looking down into the heart of coals.

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 would not make us less resolved to do all that we can to better the lot of those who are suffering insult and torture, and to exact full retribution from the enemy.

A new way to better golf.

So we have not won the Good-wood cup; au contraire, we were a "bad fifth," if not worse than that; and trying it again, and the third time, has not yet bettered the matter.

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.

The Boy bettered his pace.

After a year's imprisonment St. Croix was released, when he flew to the Marchioness and instructed her in the art, in order that she might employ it in bettering the circumstances of both.

And has not Shakspeare long taught and been commended for teaching a similar lesson, although we cannot say of Gay and his brethren that they have "bettered the instruction?"

" "Then," said the earl, "I shall be an apt pupil, for I shall give an IOU the first time I lose" "In piquet," said Phelim, squaring himself, and placing the index finger of his right hand in his left hand, after the manner of the didactic, "the great thing is the discard, and your discard should be governed by two considerationsfirst, to better your own hand, and second, to cripple your opponent's.

There was a general understanding among them all, tacit or express, that none should better its situation at the expense of the others.

Then came that peaceful meeting on the raft at Tilsitworse for Russia than any warlike meeting; for thereby Napoleon seduced Alexander, for years, from plans of bettering his empire into dreams of extending it.

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?

Let us look into the books of controversy of any kind, there we shall see that the effect of obscure, unsteady, or equivocal terms is nothing but noise and wrangling about sounds, without convincing or bettering a man's understanding.

She wrote at once to Olympia, telling the distressing story, and then set about bettering Vincent's surroundings.

By faithfully pursuing this system Mr. Fletcher has vastly bettered his general health, and is a rare example of muscular and mental power for a man above sixty years of age.

"Lor, Mr. Bargrave," she would say, staring helplessly in his face, and yielding to the genial hiccough which refused to be kept down, "he be gone to 'Merriky, poor dear, to better hisself, I make no doubt.

You Rogue, I'll better your Judgment, and give you a greater Sense of your Duty to (I regret to say) your Father, &c." "P.S.

But, even without a change of heart or a reform of habits, he might better his countenance a little, if he would.

There was nothing common or trashy in the whole consignment; but the planters preferred some gewgaws from Cheapside or some worthless London furs which they could have bettered any day by taking a gun and hunting their own woods.

To see the sweet, invincible American naïveté welling up in their intense satisfaction in being so sophisticated,oh, the harmless dears!"

But since you have heard a rumor that died out long years agowhich was deniedwhich even now I might better denysince, in fact you know the truthwhy should I deny the truth?"

Then, perchance, a sunny ray, From the heaven of fire, His lost tools may overpay, And better his desire.

124 collocations for  better