1.   Social intercourse centred very largely upon the church or chapel, and the chapels were better at bringing people together than the Establishment to which my cousins belonged.

2.   But the truth is, I am better at enduring or acting than at consoling.

3.   ' Thrasymachus, who is better at a speech than at a close argument, having deluged the company with words, has a mind to escape.

4.   I dare say you have been a great deal better off at Scroope.

5.   {1841. } Your extract has set me puzzling very much, and as I find I am better at present for not going out, you must let me unload my mind on paper.

6.   The Queen, he would say, was very well, but she was better at a distance.

7.   Occasionally they did not; but he was even better at getting out of a scrape than into it.

8.   Both in doing and speaking I simply follow my own natural way; whence, peradventure, it falls out that I am better at speaking than writing.

9.   Owing to the financial position of the Library being much better at the end of the financial year, it is more than probable that next year's report will chronicle a substantially higher increase.