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1 II | supposedly awaiting him.~The better to understand this narrative,
2 III | held it above his head, the better to light his companion.
3 III | my disposition. It’s far better to laugh and sing than to
4 III | Aberfoyle mines! The pick comes better to my hand than the spade
5 III | holding his lamp high the better to light their way, walked
6 III | I could not wish for a better than a fine fellow like
7 IV | summer time would do much better to pass a few months in
8 IV | engineer.~“The goodwife is in better health than I am, if that’
9 V | Could there indeed be a better place than a dark and deep
10 V | went.~Two men, however, better educated and with more practical
11 VII | Simon, no indeed! You wear better than I do, my old friend!”~“
12 VII | he would never have slept better than in the perfect stillness
13 IX | backs against a rock, the better to resist the wind, were
14 XI | honors of the place a little better. If you look so glum, you’
15 XII | understand that word no better than days! Simon, Harry,
16 XII | these things, it can’t be better, and may be worse than they
17 XII | be that she believes it better for us, as well as for herself,
18 XII | Perhaps it would have been better for you if you had,” murmured
19 XIII| that will be a great deal better, Harry!”~“But, first of
20 XIII| know what Nell will like better than either sun, moon, or
21 XIII| parents desired nothing better for their son. Harry’s comrades
22 XIV | evening. It would be very much better for the girl to pass gradually
23 XIV | the engineer. “She will better enjoy the novelties of the
24 XVI | friends, he must understand better than we do the secrets of
25 XVII| at any rate!”~“All the better,” quoth Madge.~“I don’t
26 XVII| convince him that Nell is better off with us here than ever
27 XVII| engineer. “Of course it is better to know your enemy than
28 XVII| returning it. It even obeyed me better than its master, which used
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