Easiest

Examples

• In mountainous regions, the topography of the land prevents the elimination of all steep grades, but nevertheless the attempt is always made to follow the easiest grades. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;--the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is easiest perhaps to describe by contrast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And with all this, the sweetest tempered person (I allude to Mr. Godfrey)--the simplest and pleasantest and easiest to please--you ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have shown yourself a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to manacle you, so we hold you both in the easiest way that will yet ensure security. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Why was this easiest, simplest work of self-culture always too much for me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But to consider the matter a-right, it has no force at all; and it is the easiest matter in the world to account for it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• That is at once the easiest and the most fruitless form of public activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was found there, making his observations--and he shammed drunk, as the easiest way of getting out of the difficulty. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Who is the English poet who has won the most universal sympathy--who makes the easiest of all subjects for pathetic writing and pathetic painting? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It's the easiest difficulty to deal with of all, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Any fool may be popular: it is the easiest thing in the world. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Evidently this seemed to him the easiest way of ridding the vessel of my presence and killing me at the same time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I heard him say: Dan, this is the easiest shave I have had since we left the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On the third she declared his lordship's equipage the easiest she ever rode in; but then, he wore such a large hat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I have not had leisure to repeat and examine more than the first and easiest of them, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Laurie, having dutifully gone to college to please his grandfather, was now getting through it in the easiest possible manner to please himself. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I could then judge, from my own observation, of the safest and easiest manner of approaching the object of my visit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No matter, Mr. Franklin, said he, I find a _low seat_ the easiest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was the easiest way, and, beyond all comparison, the properest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You say that because it's the easiest thing to say at this moment--not because it's true. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Typist: Penelope