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Now, Jerry, my throoper, do you think I'm come to this time o 'day, not to know that there's no man in Ballykeerin, or the parish it stands in -- an' that's a bigger word -- that could be called a betther man that Art Maguire? "

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

You are an example of the betther than thou elite progressive thinking.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate 2010

He has represented himself as a man of property, and it turruns out that he is no betther than a beggar.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Ambition is madness; and desire of distinction is criminal vanity; and glory is bosh; and fair fame is idleness; and nothing is true but two and two; and the color of all the world is drab; and all men are equal; and one man is as tall as another; and one man is as good as another — and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Whatever he does, will you thry to make him do betther?

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

‘And ain’t she betther there, nor being murthered up here?

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Had it plazed God I should have lived, I would have prayed for nothing higher or betther than to be one of such a family as yourselves.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Your mother, Martin, had betther not disregard that notice.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

‘I suppose you have done here now, and the sooner you turn your back on this place the betther An’ you may take this along with you.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Well, my dear, it was betther than half an hour before Billy

The Purcell Papers 2003