Fullest
['fʊlɪst]
Examples
- Of this confidence the fullest advantage had been taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Touch that--and trust to the consequences for the fullest disclosures that can flow from a woman's lips! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In my child's name, if not in my own, I make the admission in the fullest manner, at the same time reserving--ha--shall I say my personal dignity? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He is too bonny to be false, said Jessy, looking up to her tall sweetheart with the fullest confidence in his faith. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The laboratory records bear the fullest witness that he has consistently followed out this prescription to the utmost. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was dressed in the very fullest and completest travelling trim. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- By way of 'going in' to the fullest extent, Mr. Harthouse rejoined, 'Mr. Bounderby, I assure you I am entirely and completely of your way of thinking. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If we are to be in that position it will be entirely your own doing, Tertius, said Rosamond, turning round to speak with the fullest conviction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Dr. Prosper Lucas' treatise, in two large volumes, is the fullest and the best on this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I am not willing to do any one an injustice, and if convinced that I have done one, I am always willing to make the fullest admission. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The fullest disclosure of her secret will reveal nothing that can alter her place in your estimation, or in mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Hence the truly human end is the fullest possible of this distinctive human prerogative. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The strength, resolution, and presence of mind of the Mr. Knightleys, commanded his fullest dependence. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The wealth and consequence of the deceased Athelstane, occasioned this custom to be observed in the fullest extent. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The real service to democracy is the fullest, freest expression of talent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Rebecca, too, being now a relative, came in for the fullest share of Mrs. Bute's kind inquiries. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His gravity and thoughtfulness returned on him in their fullest extentand he sat for some time silent and dull. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Orphans, in the fullest sense of the term, we were poorest among the poor, and despised among the unhonoured. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Pickwick yielded his fullest assent to the proposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Cathryn