Still, any kind of effort-making is better than inaction, and there is something sublime in seeing men working in dead earnest at anything, pursuing an object with glacier-like energy and persistence.

His opinions must go into the papers any how, though perhaps no better than anybody's else.

For I do know thee better than thyself, so do I pity theepity theethou that art so mighty and yet so weak.

"They know him better than we do," was his inner comment; "what do they think of his words, and what do they think of him?" It was not so easy to determine as the anxious detective might wish.

He knew it better than English, indeed, having lived hitherto among French people, and being called the Little Frenchman by other boys on Ealing Green.

If there a'n't help enough in the house to do the work, your pa'll get 'em; and as for overseein', one's better than two."

"I do much wonder," quoth Little John to himself, "what yon knave is after, that he should go thus peeping and peering about I verily believe that yon scurvy varlet is no better than a thief, and cometh here after our own and the good King's dun deer."

But since, among bodies of this kind, some possess the governing principle inwardly, and others externally, such as things artificial, it is necessary besides quality to direct our attention to nature, as being something better than qualities, and which is prearranged in the order of cause, as art is, of things artificial.

Pope wrote to Warburton of the Essay on Man:'You understand my work better than I do myself.'

The vegetarian housewife cannot do better than prepare a large plain pudding on the Saturday, boil it for two hours, put it away in its basin, and boil it two hours again on Monday; with what is left over from Sunday, this will probably be sufficient for Monday's dinner.

no better than we.

" To look at me you would hardly think poor Thady was the father of Attorney Quirk; he is a high gentleman, and having better than fifteen hundred a year, landed estate, looks down upon honest Thady.

It seemed an unfair advantage, and nothing better than the act of an assassin; but I reasoned that Thirkle or Buckrow would have little mercy on me if I fell into their power.

I have run after and made a fool of myself for years over pretty women, but I like your face, just as it is, better than any other woman's face I ever knew.

Dear little brother died before the bird, and I loved him better than any bird, or tree or flower.

"Are ye not much better than they" [are]?Matt., vi, 26.

"G. B. "I found him better than I expected to find him."L

The ignorant childish world outside would indulge in zeal and hot feelings,but for an advocate to do so was to show that he was no lawyer,that he was no better than the outside world.

Judge Bramber was to him simply pretentious, and a Secretary of State no better than any other man.

" No poet understood better than Tennyson that purity is an ingredient of love:

One traveller would paint the frontiersmen as little better than the Indians against whom they warred, and their life as wild, squalid, and lawless; while the next would lay especial and admiring stress on their enterprise, audacity, and hospitable openhandedness.

If Truth is not loved for her own pure sake, if to lead a noble life, if to make men happier, if to spread brightness around us, if to leave the world better than we found itif these aims have no attraction for us, if these thoughts do not inspire us, then we are not worthy to be Secularists, we have no right to the proud title of Freethinkers.

In fact, he would be no better than Mrs. Cliff.

But I must say, that when I called to mind since, the address, the management, the compliance in show, and in general the whole conduct of the queen-mother with the mutinous people of Lyons, and compared it with the conduct of my unhappy master the King of England, I could not but see that the queen understood much better than King Charles the management of politics and the clamours of the people.

He's playing with the angels, who can't be much better than he was here below.