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  • Yes, she's been a good wife to me, better'n that other one.

    The White Silence 2010

  • Yes, she's been a good wife to me, better'n that other one.

    THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

  • "Just the same," Billy held stubbornly, "large scale's a whole lot better'n small scale like all these dinky gardens."

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • It's not good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they're better'n her people's, and then return to them.

    The White Silence 2010

  • She says he always was a good worker, and he's better'n other men she ever saw.

    THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010

  • Just the same he's oodles better'n your bunch of hoodlums that no decent woman'd wipe her one pair of shoes on.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • "Mebbe this is a case where a hunch after the draw is better'n the hunch before," Kearns remarked; "wherefore duty says, 'Lift her, Jack, lift her,' and so I lift her another five thousand."

    Chapter 2 2010

  • A man can get religion, but ain't no man on the whole earth can get religion better'n a woman.

    I will be gone James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • 'We're better'n these cheap emigrants,' I'd say to myself.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • I know you -- better'n yourself, better'n yourself.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

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