Finest

Examples

• I hinted that the climate-- The finest climate in the world! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The finest and palest oil is made from fresh and carefully cleaned liver, the oil being extracted either in the cold or by a gentle heat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He loves your daughter very much; he feels her finest qualities, and they influence him worthily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But John Mosby was the finest cavalry leader that ever lived. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She was the finest, deepest, subtlest schemer in Europe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His hair, which absolutely grew in full ringlets, was of the very finest silken quality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In his desire for the greatest subjects for his windows and the finest treatment of them, Bernard turned to Italy, the home of the great painters, and copied their works. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwellsome of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Our picture shows a bin of crude up-river Para the finest rubber known. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was the finest day I had seen since my return to England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These the finest beds and finest sorts. Jane Austen. Emma.
• By Gad, sir, she's the finest lady I ever met in my life, bounced out the Major. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They have injured the finest mind; for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner: it appears as if the mind itself was tainted. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is then not only impossible to confine sex to mere reproduction; it would be a stupid denial of the finest values of civilization. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He sat entertaining them with his finest compliments, and his choicest conversation; but he conveyed to them, all the time, 'No, no, no, dear ladies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And when she had come away, Mrs. Martin was so very kind as to send Mrs. Goddard a beautiful goosethe finest goose Mrs. Goddard had ever seen. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You are the finest woman in Kentucky; but still you haven't sense to know that you don't understand business;--women never do, and never can. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They are the finest people in the world, these fellows are. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The approach _now_, is one of the finest things in the country: you see the house in the most surprising manner. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• After I had been an hour at the play, the manager came around and asked me to go underneath the stage, as they were putting on a ballet of 300 girls, the finest ballet in Europe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The cuisine includes a refrigerating plant, the finest ranges, and provisions galore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There's no one here but the finest creature upon earth--a child. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A few days will be spent in this, the finest city of Spain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Had I been looking for an example of the finest expert inquiry, there would have been little question that the vivid and intensive study of Pittsburgh's industrialism was the example to use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Nigel