Uppermost

Examples

• Elinor tried to talk of something else; but Miss Steele could not be kept beyond a couple of minutes, from what was uppermost in her mind. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in me seemed to come uppermost. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The evil side of life was uppermost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But don't suppose--oh, don't suppose--that the dreadful embarrassment of my situation was the uppermost idea in my mind! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Oliver Twist being uppermost in his mind, he made him his theme. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It would be impossible to say what Emma felt, on hearing thiswhich of all her unpleasant sensations was uppermost. Jane Austen. Emma.
• In social philosophy, the former connotation is almost always uppermost. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The one who had been uppermost was Yeobright; he who had been completely submerged was Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The uppermost side, when I spread it out, presented to view innumerable folds and creases, and nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You will do him no injustice, I think, if you conclude that the Italian side of him was uppermost now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr Wegg then goes on to enlarge upon what throughout has been uppermost in his crafty mind:--the qualifications of Mr Venus for such a search. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Probably the Etruscans ruled over a subjugated Italian population, so reversing the state of affairs in Greece, in which the Aryans were uppermost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At such times, a good flow is obtainable even on the uppermost floors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The paper which contained the smaller quantity of writing was the uppermost of the two. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Walter Hartright is uppermost in my memory, and he passes first in the shadowy procession of my absent friends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was no very difficult task, for the grave was so full, that the uppermost coffin was within a few feet of the surface. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Well, well--I don't mind,' said poor Winkle, turning his gun-stock uppermost--'there. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She began to talk on the subject which came uppermost in her mind, after the first flush of awkward shyness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• That expectation and that hope remained uppermost in my mind until the Lieutenant-Generalcy bill was introduced into Congress in the winter of 1863-4. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The horizontal lines may represent successive geological formations, and all the forms beneath the uppermost line may be considered as extinct. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Well, Lady Dedlock, returns the lawyer, crossing his legs and nursing the uppermost knee. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What could he say, since what had got obstinately uppermost in his mind was the passionate love for her which he forbade himself to utter? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To try no more to go away, and to try her again, was the reckless conclusion it turned uppermost. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Venn looked gloomy, threw--the die was seen to be lying in two pieces, the cleft sides uppermost. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Taking the forms, he carried them over to the window and carefully examined that which was uppermost. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It had four steps, and a stone to cross over when you came to the uppermost. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But no--the hospitable impulse was the uppermost impulse in the old servant's mind, when a member of the family appeared (no matter how! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As he stood on Madame Olenska's threshold curiosity was his uppermost feeling. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The sense of these doubts was uppermost when, late one afternoon, she was surprised by a visit from Lawrence Selden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No man may say with certainty what thought was uppermost in Goethe’s mind when, grappling in the final struggle with the King of Terrors, he exclaimed Mehr licht! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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