1 Had I better wait a little longer.
2 The business man has got the better of them, too.
3 No, better go out and throw it all away somewhere.
4 Of course it would be better if they had not been here, but.
5 The only comfort is, that it's bound to be a change for the better.
6 The better of his comrades understood this, and all were fond of him.
7 "You'd better go out and get a breath of air," she said after a pause.
8 At last the thought struck him that it might be better to go to the Neva.
9 This was all the better, for there would be nothing suspicious about his going in.
10 In the second room some clerks sat writing, dressed hardly better than he was, and rather a queer-looking set.
11 "Yes, better throw it away," he repeated, sitting down on the sofa again, "and at once, this minute, without lingering."
12 The gentleman heard him, and seemed about to fly into a rage again, but thought better of it, and confined himself to a contemptuous look.
13 He went into that room--the fourth in order; it was a small room and packed full of people, rather better dressed than in the outer rooms.
14 He spent one whole winter without lighting his stove, and used to declare that he liked it better, because one slept more soundly in the cold.
15 He was of course incapable of reflecting that it might perhaps be far better not to restore the axe at all, but to drop it later on in somebody's yard.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 16 We deceived you then, writing that this money came from Dounia's savings, but that was not so, and now I tell you all about it, because, thank God, things have suddenly changed for the better, and that you may know how Dounia loves you and what a heart she has.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 17 none at all, but she got herself up as though she were going on a visit; and not that she'd anything to do it with, she smartened herself up with nothing at all, she'd done her hair nicely, put on a clean collar of some sort, cuffs, and there she was, quite a different person, she was younger and better looking.
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