Highest

Examples

• On the strength of Darcy's regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgement the highest opinion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Jane Fairfax was very elegant, remarkably elegant; and she had herself the highest value for elegance. Jane Austen. Emma.
• If the flank were turned, the best men would be left on the highest mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I wish continued success to the labours of the Royal Society, and that you may long adorn their chair; being, with the highest esteem, dear sir, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As to wishing, my dear Ladislaw, I have the highest opinion of your powers, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The patent was infringed and assailed, but finally sustained by the highest courts of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• All the highest mountains were beyond. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Massive, symmetrical and harmonious, its highest point reaches 307? feet above the plaza on the east. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only in summer days of highest feather did its mood touch the level of gaiety. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I will plant your standard; and when you see it wave from yon highest minaret, you may gain courage, and rally round it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the highest class, I replied,--among those goods which he who would be happy desires both for their own sake and for the sake of their results. Plato. The Republic.
• These had elected their officers from highest to lowest and were accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Their highest price, however, seems not to be necessarily determined by any thing but the actual scarcity or plenty of these metals themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I was upon the highest peak of a lofty range. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Now the balance spring of a watch is made from steel, and is carefully tempered in order to obtain its highest elasticity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The man's voracious vanity devoured this implied tribute to his local and critical supremacy with an appearance of the highest relish. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He is, of course, handsomely paid, and he associates almost on a footing of equality with the highest society. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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