Paramount

Examples

• I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• However, if I get well over this folly, I will for the rest of my life reign lord paramount or nothing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In New York the question of permanency was of paramount importance, and the other contingencies were sure to arise as well as conditions more easy to imagine than to forestall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I should very much liked to ha' joined you, Sir; but the gov'nor, o' course, is paramount. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This was my duty; but there was another still paramount to that. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But, even though threatened by famine, her fear of the plague was paramount; and her greatest care was to avoid her fellow creatures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The rectors, of course, must be paramount, and they might be trusted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pestilence reigned paramount even here. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These feelings for a time were paramount; and, in obedience to them, I accompanied the rest towards Auxerre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Never was wooer of wealthy bride so thoroughly absolved from the subaltern part, so inevitably compelled to assume a paramount character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is my misfortune and habit, I know, to think of myself paramount to anybody else; but who is not like me in that respect? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Plague sat paramount the while, and laughed us to scorn. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Those interests are now paramount in this office. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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