Nicest
['naɪsɪst]
Examples
- He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This yer's my nicest chicken. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He met her first at the George Dorsets', only about six weeks ago, and it's just the nicest possible marriage for dear Evie. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Her sewing is exquisite; it is the nicest thing I know about Mary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The nicest skill had to be used in turning the screw of the press, and only Gutenberg seemed able to succeed with it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The same system was followed with equal success in producing the first-class pocket-chronometer for the nicest work to which chronometers can be put. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hang it, she's the nicest little woman in England, George replied, showing his white teeth, and giving his ambrosial whiskers a twirl. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he is a pleasant, good humoured fellow, and has got the nicest little black bitch of a pointer I ever saw. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I could get the nicest house in the world for you, next door to ours, in Hanover-square. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Editor: Nat