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It has its name from so commonplace an origin as the sign over a tavern door, with some snakes painted on it; but if the example of sinuosity had been set it by prehistoric serpents, there were scores of other streets which have bettered its instruction.
You know where he is." "He is there," said the count, pointing over the priest's shoulder. "Then God bless him," said the Abbe Susini, turning on his heel. "I do not ask that flowers should always spring beneath my feet." Colonel Gilbert was not one of those visionaries who think that the lot of the individual man is to be bettered by a change from, say, an empire to a republic.
She tossed her head and laughed like a young scornful devil, showing her white pearl teeth between her lips' scarlet. "Not I," she said. "There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out." She played her part as triumphant beauty so successfully that the cleverest managing mother in the universe could not have bettered her position.
His parents might have bettered matters a little, but they did not wish to cross the old ladies either, and they had to buy so much yarn they could not afford to get anything else.
"You were borne hither in your sleep, and see, the change has bettered you. Do you remember nothing?" "Nothing, nothing at all," I answered earnestly. "But what of my friend?" "He also is better. The Khania Atene nurses him." "Atene?" I said. "That is an old Egyptian name. It means the Disk of the Sun, and a woman who bore it thousands of years ago was famous for her beauty."
The truth was that, within the last week, he had had a great deal too much to bear, and was all but prostrated from shock. When that condition bettered, and he began to feel again, he was nervous and jumpy. In the night, the drip of a faucet, or the snap of a board, would set his heart to bounding sickeningly. And, even by day, every little while his body would shake inside that new uniform.
The list may easily be bettered, and may be indefinitely lengthened. I mention only books for those who are accustomed to do their reading in English. It is hardly necessary to say that I do not advise all this reading in connection with the first three chapters of this book.
Grettir said that his temper had been nowise bettered by this, that he was worse to quiet than before, and that he deemed all trouble worse than it was; but that herein he found the greatest change, in that he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors.
To have had no one dead or dying around us would have been regarded as singular. Besides, why should we feel any regret at the passing away of those whose condition would probably be bettered thereby! It was difficult to see where we who still lived were any better off than they who were gone before and now "forever at peace, each in his windowless palace of rest."
To Kate these complainings were ever distasteful; she had but one philosophy, which was 'to bear up well, and when, not that, 'as well as you could. She saw scores of things around her to be remedied, or, at least, bettered, by a little exertion, and not one which could be helped by a vain regret.
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