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1  That's what girls say, but you know better.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
2  I expect I know the country girls better than you do.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
3  "You'd better put it out in the rain-barrel," he says.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
4  He would have done a better job if I hadn't hurried him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  It's no better than a badger hole; no proper dugout at all.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  'I think I'd better go home and look after Antonia,' I said.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
7  The more our house was like a country hotel, the better I liked it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
8  No wonder Krajiek got the better of these people, if this was how they behaved.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  He told us we had a long night drive ahead of us, and had better be on the hike.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
10  'You had better go over and see our neighbours tomorrow, Emmaline,' he replied gravely.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
12  'Maybe I be the kind of girl you like better; now I come to town,' she suggested hopefully.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
13  She told Antonia she had better go to see Tiny that Saturday evening, as there would certainly be music at the Boys' Home.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
14  In my ingenuousness I hoped that Sylvester would marry Lena, and thus give all the country girls a better position in the town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
15  They stopped the horse, and the two girls in the bottom of the cart stood up, steadying themselves by the shoulders of the two in front, so that they could see me better.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
16  If all the great plain from the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains had been under glass, and the heat regulated by a thermometer, it could not have been better for the yellow tassels that were ripening and fertilizing the silk day by day.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
17  He took women, married or single, into his confidence; walked them up and down in the moonlight, telling them what a mistake he had made by not entering the office branch of the service, and how much better fitted he was to fill the post of General Passenger Agent in Denver than the rough-shod man who then bore that title.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
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