As you know, I am neither clever nor strong-and I have only too gladly relied on Abler wits than mine own.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Chinese brick-yards and potteries of "Tanah Puteh," a suburb of Kuching, came into view shortly after this, and immediately after this Fort Margaret, which stands on a hill on the left-hand bank of the river, and commands the entrance to Kuching, and, rounding the bend that hides it from our view, we now come to the town itself, so unique and picturesque a place that a far Abler pen than mine is needed to do justice to its description.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
But as he gazed in a fascination of fear, his eyes grew Abler to distinguish, and he saw that he breathed.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald