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 1 I     |     polemical. He found his time better employed in seeking than
 2 VI    |           it could not have been better done. Ferguson put himself
 3 XII   |         since it enabled him the better to follow the route traced
 4 XII   |        quails that asked nothing better than to get a good shot
 5 XIII  |          Mr. Kennedy is none the better for having passed the night
 6 XIII  |        eyes shut!”~“Oh, I can do better than that, friend Dick;
 7 XIII  |  exclaimed Kennedy, feeling much better already.~“It leads to it,
 8 XIV   |          of my life; and all the better with a glass of grog to
 9 XV    | merchants here at Kazeh, who are better informed than the rest,
10 XV    |       with extra speed. Dick had better remain, therefore, in the
11 XV    |         and serpents, the latter better imitated, of course, than
12 XXII  |      to-day?” asked the doctor.~“Better, perhaps,” he replied. “
13 XXIV  |         doctor asked for nothing better; he would even have welcomed
14 XXIV  |           I can suffer, and that better than he can, perhaps. Where
15 XXVI  |           Would he not have done better to have kept the water that
16 XXVII |      what it meant.~“So much the better!” said Kennedy, with the
17 XXVII |         of despair. “So much the better—we shall die!”~“So much
18 XXVII |         shall die!”~“So much the better!” echoed the doctor, “for
19 XXVIII|     think that, to-night, we had better keep a more vigilant lookout,
20 XXX   |        balloon in order to get a better look at this cavalcade of
21 XXX   |        civilization; it would be better to pass for mere men. That
22 XXX   |     would have asked for nothing better, but for lack of wind, the
23 XXXI  |         bullet.~“You’d have done better if you had harpooned him,”
24 XXXIV |         in doubting it. It knows better than we, and here we are,
25 XXXIV |   growing clearer.”~“So much the better! We must now reconnoitre
26 XXXV  |      meditation, fatigue got the better of his gloomy thoughts,
27 XXXVI |         don’t stop!”~“He’s doing better than that, Dick! I understand
28 XXXVII|        voyage accomplished under better circumstances!”~“Nor in
29 XXXVII|          circumstances!”~“Nor in better health,” said Joe, at that
30 XXXVII|          naturally! I never felt better in my life! Nothing sets
31 XXXVII|           said I, ‘for I can see better ahead of me and farther