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Ellieslaw has the auld riding blood far hetter at his heart than ye hae — troth, he kens naething about thae newfangled notions

The Black Dwarf 2004

Here the principle is applied to judgements of goodness, since one definition of ‘good’ was ‘what beings that acquire understanding will choose in any given case’: from which it clearly follows that that thing is hetter which understanding declares to be so.

Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

"A heid hetter than hell fire, and twae een lookin 'different ways for the Sabbath."

The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

'A heid hetter than hell fire, and twae een lookin 'different ways for the Sabbath.'

The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper 1915

The auld Laird of Ellieslaw has the auld riding blood far hetter at his heart than ye hae --- troth, he kens naething about thae newfangled notions o 'peace and quietness --- he's a' for the auld-warld doings o 'lifting and laying on, and he has a wheen stout lads at his back too, and keeps them weel up in heart, and as fu' o 'mischief as young colts.

The Black Dwarf 1898

It had been het afore, as I hae said, but that nicht it was hetter than ever.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

A few stern voices called out 'No!' and a score or two hailed, with assenting cries of 'Hear, hear!' the caution from one man, 'Slackbridge, y'or over hetter in't; y'or a goen too fast!'

Hard Times 1876

'My friends,' said he, 'by virtue o' my office as your president, I askes o 'our friend Slackbridge, who may be a little over hetter in this business, to take his seat, whiles this man Stephen Blackpool is heern.

Hard Times 1876

It had been het afore, as I hae said, but that nicht it was hetter than ever.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

'Slackbridge, y'or over hetter in't; y'or a goen too fast!'

Hard Times 1868