Meanings of better stead in English

These details should have stood the workers entering the cantina in better stead.

But the experiences two years ago put a lot of those lads in better stead.

Sir Henry's strength had done it, and never did muscular power stand a man in better stead.

Never did such gifts stand their owner in better stead than during the minutes of this strange duel.

Certainly, in a worldly sense, a handsome face at three-and-forty had never served a man in better stead.

This lad, however, had some other things which stood him in better stead even than the sling and the stones.

While their more cautious tack has eaten into earnings, it has also put them in better stead to weather the turmoil.

He was to fight; and that was an idea that stood him in better stead than a whole library of ethical subtleties.

He was to fight; and that was an idea that stood him in better stead than a whole library of ethical subtilties.

But the diversion took us out of sight of land, and that stood us in better stead presently than tons of fresh meat.

It would have been well if, on these occasions, the pride he boasted of had stood him in better stead, and repelled such unjustifiable intrusions.

Your clattering tongue had served us a scurvy trick, my man; let your head serve us in better stead, or mayhap you'll lose both-whoknows?