Quickest

Examples

• Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was time only for the quickest arrangement of mind. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Full of thanks, and full of news, Miss Bates knew not which to give quickest. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That a northerly course would quickest lead me toward the more settled portions of the planet immediately decided the direction that I should steer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each other half an hour, who should brew the best quart of punch and drink it the quickest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Hence, the quickest way was to search the tropics until the proper material was found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This, I am well aware, was not the quickest way to take of obeying the directions which I had received. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was one of the quickest despatchers in the business, and we soon found it was hopeless for us to try to keep up with him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The sport was at its height, the sliding was at the quickest, the laughter was at the loudest, when a sharp smart crack was heard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But I know the quickest way to queer yourself with the right people is to be seen with the wrong ones; and that's the reason I want to avoid mistakes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Moreover, it was the spot to which such French intelligence as was most to be relied upon, came quickest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We must do whatever is to be done quickest, and I think our feelings will lose no time there. Jane Austen. Emma.

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