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Example sentences for "still better"

  • Send to table with it caper sauce; or nasturtion, which is still better.

  • A few pounds of the lean of a fresh round of beef, will be still better, cooked in this manner, increasing the quantity of ochras and tomatos, and stewing it six hours.

  • The French go over them with salad oil, which is still better.

  • This it is which justifies the method instinctively adopted by the scientist, and what justifies it still better, perhaps, is that oft-recurring facts appear to us simple, precisely because we are used to them.

  • Or still better, a body is submitted to the simultaneous action of several identical threads in equal tension, and by experiment it is sought what must be the orientations of all these threads that the body may remain in equilibrium.

  • Or, still better, ask what should be their acceleration under the influence of an electric or magnetic field, that this principle be not violated and that we come back to the ordinary laws when we suppose the velocity very slight.

  • Another, and in the opinion of the editor, a still better system of nomenclature is that in which the metallic or basic radical is mentioned first; e.

  • A few grains of carbonate of magnesia, or, still better, of bicarbonate of potassa or soda, may be advantageously dissolved in each bottle before corking it.

  • A still better plan is to steep it in the dyer's green indigo-vat.

  • Do the same with all the others towards the two ends, confining them with a temporary ribband where the gunwale is afterwards to be; or, still better, leaving their ends 6in.

  • But perhaps both ideas may be still better expressed by a change of the nominative, thus: "The study of mathematics is useful.

  • Perhaps these examples might be considered good English, either with or without the to; but the last one would be still better thus: "Dare you prosecute such a creature as Vaughan?

  • Where the separation is nearly complete, a portion of it protrudes at the os uteri; and this we can sometimes hook down with one or two fingers, and bring away: a still better mode is recommended by Levret, viz.

  • That's all very well, my dear madam, but you might have pursued a still better course, and one which would have been still more conducive to his happiness.

  • Nevertheless, monsignor was an intelligent man, and, what is still better, an honest man.

  • I told my business with the importance of an ambassador, and this made him in a still better humour.

  • Tie the pudding firmly in a cloth, and boil it for 6 hours at the least 7 or 8 hours would be still better for it.

  • Put them in a deep pan, with plenty of clarified dripping or lard (when the expense is not objected to, oil is still better) heated, so that it may neither scorch the fish nor make them sodden.

  • Boil the cod, and either leave it whole, or, what is still better, flake it from the bone, and take off the skin.

  • Tie the pudding firmly in a cloth, and boil it for 6 hours at the least: 7 or 8 hours would be still better for it.

  • Burns, a gifted song-writer, might have made a still better Mirabeau.

  • A still better finish is shown at d, where the trim is nailed to posts but not lapped.

  • A far better method is to mortise the shelf through the end pieces and fasten it with a good, healthy pin or wedge, as shown at f; and a still better plan is to have two mortises and two wedges, as shown at g.

  • The flooring of tongue and groove stuff may now be laid, cutting ends square and fitting them up close to studding, or, what is still better, clear out to the sheathing.

  • What is still better, the old island proprietors are on every hand building new houses for the peasantry, and with great forethought adding to their comfort; knowing that they will thereby secure their contentment on their native soil.

  • The recent condition of the Jews and Catholics in England, is a still better illustration of the political condition of the Strangers in Israel.

  • However, I think they will do still better after 1840.

  • In this method the hands are folded on the breast, or still better, kept under the water and close to the sides.

  • Tough rags, or leather thongs fastened to a handle about a foot in length, will make an effective lash, but the best whips are made from pliant leather thongs, or still better, from a dried eelskin.

  • A child is still better; if you can't get that, a dog will do!

  • They are clothed and fed; and, still better, they are loved and educated.

  • Your 'Swiss blood' Lienert Pfister is good, and it will be still better if you will give us a cheaper price, and finally tap the cask for us so that we can have it to drink on our anniversaries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another instant; comparative religion; each army; often seen; small flat; something foreign; still called; still going; still have; still here; still holds; still larger; still life; still loved; still other; still possess; still possible; still remain; still remained; still remember; still speaking; still they; still tongue; still used; white slavery; work with