Truest

Examples

• Believe me, and Elinor spoke it with the truest sincerity, nothing could be farther from my intention than to give you such an idea. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I was the truest wife that ever lived, though I married my husband out of pique, because somebody else--but never mind that. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And which of the three has the truest knowledge and the widest experience? Plato. The Republic.
• Confide some other passion to me, if you will; I will be the truest, warmest, and most faithful friend you have. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Our dearest, truest, kindest friend and protector? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Increase me in that wisdom which discovers my truest interest: Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I was guided by my father, because I had always found him the truest of all advisers, the best and fondest of all protectors and friends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The pearl he admired was in itself of great price and truest purity, but he was not the man who, in appreciating the gemcould forget its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Vun o' the truest things as you've said for many a long year,' replied Sam, in a most composed manner. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship, and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• As I went out, Mr. Godfrey said, Dear old Betteredge, I have the truest regard for him! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For a time Roosevelt was a man of destiny in the truest sense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He did not do this by common topics of consolation, but by exhibiting the truest sympathy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Tis one of the truest sayings ever spit out. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I have heard, she said, and I believe it, that the fondest and truest of all affections is the affection which a woman ought to bear to her husband. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We read of it with the truest interest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last she smiled; a poor, weak little smile; but it gave him the truest pleasure. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The honestest lad, the truest lad, the best! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest? Plato. The Republic.
• Poor dear, good dear, truest, kindest, dearest, were the only words she had for him, as she hushed him to rest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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