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1  You had better be apprenticed at once.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
2  Perhaps we had better go to your place of residence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  Theoretically, she was already as good a blacksmith as I, or better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
4  Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  She might have had the politeness to send that message at first, but it's better late than never.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
6  If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  No doubt my health would be much better if it was otherwise, still I wouldn't change my disposition if I could.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
8  "Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
9  I could answer this inquiry with a better heart than I had been able to find for the other question, and I said I was quite willing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  We were all deeply persuaded that the unfortunate Wopsle had gone too far, and had better stop in his reckless career while there was yet time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
11  Indeed, when I knew her better I began to think it was a Mercy she had any features at all, so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  Miss Havisham glanced at him as if she understood what he really was better than I had thought possible, seeing what he was there; and took up a little bag from the table beside her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
13  But beginning to perceive that the handcuffs were not for me, and that the military had so far got the better of the pie as to put it in the background, I collected a little more of my scattered wits.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
14  As I knew it would be miserable at home, and as the nights were dark and the way was dreary, and almost any companionship on the road was better than none, I made no great resistance; consequently, we turned into Pumblechook's just as the street and the shops were lighting up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
15  If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
17  And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
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