Happiest
['hæpɪst]
Examples
- It was the happiest hour I had in the whole day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His manners are certainly not the happiest in nature. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I was the happiest of the happy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That was the happiest time of his life: that was the spot he would have chosen now to awake in and find the rest a dream. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Jones, a dried-in man of businessstood behind his desk: he seemed one of the greatest, and I one of the happiest of beings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But the happiest regulation in French railway government is--thirty minutes to dinner! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am the happiest creature in the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Perhaps it was the happiest time of both their lives, indeed, if they did but know it--and who does? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dear Mr Clennam, make me of all the world the happiest, by saying Yes? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These Wednesdays were the happiest days of Mr. Dick's life; they were far from being the least happy of mine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In a word, I am real, you are ideal; but I am the happieSt The happiness of the beasts which perish! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted--she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Men of his age married wives of her age every day--and experience had shown those marriages to be often the happiest ones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They may be the happiest of men, but our principal aim in founding the State was not to make them happy. Plato. The Republic.
- Emma soon saw that her companion was not in the happiest humour. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Of this last, best, happiest of all impressions, I grow more and more certain every hour in the day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- What you call wearisome domesticity, said the Rector in a voice of emotion, is the happiest state in which a man can find himself. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Reader, they were the three happiest years of my life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He has not been the happiest of mortals since last we met him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then Caddy told us that she was going to be married in a month and that if Ada and I would be her bridesmaids, she was the happiest girl in the world. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This evening we are going to see Fechter, which will be an appropriate end to the happiest day of my life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Not being a dog in the manger, but the happiest fellow alive, I assure you I can dance at Jo's wedding with a heart as light as my heels. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Immediately on our departure, I was delighted to find a change in Idris, which I fondly hoped prognosticated the happiest results. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This'll be the happiest piece of work we ever done. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They were the happiest—O, of all the happy times we had together, sir! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It is settled between us already, that we are to be the happiest couple in the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Indeed, long past infancy, children and young people are the happiest under the unfailing laws of a discreet, firm authority. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Mabel