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 1        I,  I   |           wished to shade them, the better to see into the recesses
 2        I,  I   |     speaking at random, perhaps the better to hide his desire to learn,
 3        I,  IV  |              But it would have been better for Michael Strogoff to
 4        I,  IV  |         lowering his voice. “We had better take care, and not speak
 5        I,  V   |          Perm or Kasan. It would be better, then, to wait for the steamer,
 6        I,  V   |           companion? Having nothing better to do, he WAS thinking of
 7        I,  V   |           speak before me, they had better use some other language.”~
 8        I,  XI  |     Gentlemen,” said he, “here is a better plan. We have now reached
 9        I,  XI  |             that he was leaving the better half of his telga behind?”~“
10        I,  XII |    cultivate the land, when it pays better to burrow beneath the earth?
11        I,  XII |            which it would have been better to avoid.~“Enough!” said
12        I,  XII |            his mission. It would be better to lose some hours. Yes;
13        I,  XIII|             understood. “I like him better for that,” he muttered and
14        I,  XIV |         rest, and thou wilt be in a better condition to pursue thy
15        I,  XVI |         fatigued as his own. It was better to trust to his own brave
16        I,  XVI |           was the deh-baschi. Being better mounted, this officer had
17        I,  XVII|             moment. Would it not be better to try, even on foot, to
18       II,  I   |           so many others, and could better endure the hardships to
19       II,  II  |             whether it would not be better to give up his first plan
20       II,  III |          events, it would have been better had he not possessed quite
21       II,  III |            his sister will be a bit better off from this outbreak of
22       II,  IV  |           rises, it would have been better to arrive only for the ballet.”~“
23       II,  VII |        heaps of leaves. For want of better fodder the horse had to
24       II,  VII |             he longed to see, to be better able to avoid this peril,
25       II,  VIII|         Pigassof, he had never been better in his life. To him this
26       II,  VIII|            said Nadia.~“So much the better! So much the better! But
27       II,  VIII|             the better! So much the better! But I—I saw!”~“What was
28       II,  XI  |         emotion.~“Well, so much the better!” thought Alcide Jolivet, “
29       II,  XI  |           Jolivet and Blount may be better understood than described.
30       II,  XI  |               said he. “I like them better than Tartars. But we must
31       II,  XII | governor-general, “you will have no better soldiers.”~“But they must
32       II,  XIII|           to tear the envelope, the better to hide it from the Emir’
33       II,  XV  |              laughing.~“So much the better,” returned Blount, “for