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1  I can never see thee better than so.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
2  Though I do know better, Tom, and am very sorry for it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  It makes Thomas no better, and it makes you worse, Louisa.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
4  Thousands of his compeers could talk much better than he, at any time.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
5  No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
6  You had better have been satisfied as you were, and not have got married.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
7  To thpeak plain to you, my opinion ith that you had better cut it thort, and drop it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
8  Perhaps it would have been better, on the whole, if no allusion to it had escaped me.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
9  The better, Mr. Harthouse gave him to understand as they shook hands, for the salubrious air of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  If you want to cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you to a better adviser than Loo Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
11  She clung to him as she should have clung to some far better nature that day, and was a little shaken in her reserved composure for the first time.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
13  I say, equal terms, because although I know what I am, and the exact depth of the gutter I have lifted myself out of, better than any man does, I am as proud as you are.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
14  Stephen had not yet got the better of his having given the old lady pain, when his landlady came stumbling up the narrow stairs, and calling him to the door, whispered in his ear.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
15  He knew that there was trouble enough in the world; and if the old woman had lived so long, and could count upon his having so little, why so much the better for her, and none the worse for him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
16  You had better tell us at once, that that fellow Slackbridge is not in the town, stirring up the people to mutiny; and that he is not a regular qualified leader of the people: that is, a most confounded scoundrel.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
17  Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
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