Strongest

Examples

• It was said to be untarnishable and unstainable even when used with the strongest acid foods, as well as non-rusting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nay, he said, the case of a city is the strongest of all, inasmuch as the rule of a city is the greatest and most difficult of all. Plato. The Republic.
• Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection--of the strongest kind--was the result. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I can give no better reason for it than that I have been over-anxious about Laura lately--and anxiety, Mr. Gilmore, unsettles the strongest of us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This was Sir James's strongest way of implying that he thought ill of a man's character. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I know what you meanbut Emma's hand is the strongest. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I believe I have been wrong in saying so much, but I hardly know what to do, and on your prudence I have the strongest dependence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The Wrights adopted this type, believing that it was the strongest form, and could be made more compact and be more easily managed than the single plane, or the many-winged type. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Our strongest holds are not proof against a storm of hail, and even a dark cloud damps the very stoutest heart. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The strongest gusts of wind to which the bridge has been exposed have not caused a vibration of more than one inch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I feel the strongest possible concern and interest in anything that affects Miss Fairlie's happiness or yours. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Because, my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I was really elsewhere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The lady, against whom naturally the strongest suspicion rested, was removed to her room, still in a state of insensibility. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Your allowing yourself to be so occupied and so unhappy about Mr. Elton's marrying, Harriet, is the strongest reproach you can make _me_. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Two of the strongest of our gunboats had been disabled, presumably beyond the possibility of rendering any present assistance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Something in his prompt acquiescence frightened her; she felt behind it the stored force of a patience that might subdue the strongest will. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Yet just in the North we find the abolition sentiment strongest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Bruff expressed the strongest disapproval of the course which his friend and client was taking under my advice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As to the proportions, 1 in 20 was the strongest he used, and 1 in 60 the weakest; for preserving meat 1 in 50 answered perfectly well--1?lb. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Offer to the strongest--if the darkest angel of God's host--water, when he has asked blood--will he take it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He is the most intimate friend of Laura's husband, and in that capacity he excites my strongest intereSt. Neither Laura nor I have ever seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You have been in love, Mr Carriston, and you know how such a passion overwhelms the strongest man. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nearly all patent medicines contain some alcohol, and in many, the quantity of alcohol is far in excess of that found in the strongest wines. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They were at once the deepest puzzle, the strongest obstruction, and the keenest stimulus, I had ever felt. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Her strongest sense was one of personal contamination. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is not the least to the purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He has told me in the strongest manner that he has never been his old self for one single minute since I first brought him to see you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The business that I have really called about is this, to borrow the longest and strongest rope you have. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Kitty Hawk, the place the Wrights had chosen because the Weather Bureau had told them the winds were strongest and steadiest there, now became one of the chief foci of the world’s attention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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