Lowest

Examples

• 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.
• We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There are three great series of strata beneath the Silurian system in Canada, in the lowest of which the Eozoon is found. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The lowest estimate was made by Lord Kelvin in 1867. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• Now, mark, Boffin,' returned Silas: 'Mark 'em well, because they're the lowest terms and the only terms. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were at the lowest now; they could not be worse. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I no longer adhere to my intention of giving with my own mouth rudimentary education to the lowest class. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We should in the present times consider this as a very high price for a pair of stockings to a servant of the poorest and lowest order. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even with this last serious draw-back, however, the lowest of the various estimates given was twenty thousand pounds. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But, in the present state of the Spanish market, gold is certainly somewhat nearer to this lowest price than silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even the lowest soldier is a god, and has his slaves to wait upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Social relationships and modes of organized action are reduced to their lowest terms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be essentially similar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Betteredge dropped to the lowest depth of familiarity with me, without a struggle to save himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Or you shall stoop to the lowest infamy of all, and force your way out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Orders had been given, long before this movement began, to cut down the baggage of officers and men to the lowest point possible. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The lowest roll was set in a fixed bearing at the bottom of the frame, and, therefore, could only turn around on its axis. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The army of these crusaders, according to the lowest estimates, consisted of 90,000 infantry and 40,000 horsemen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The legal rate, it is to be observed, though it ought to be somewhat above, ought not to be much above the lowest market rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We are compelled to accept, not the highest, but the lowest account of the origin of human society. Plato. The Republic.
• What I would direct then, is that you commence at once reducing baggage to the very lowest possible standard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In my heart and my conscience I can say it, Laura's hopes for the future are at their lowest ebb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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