But the most influential are the most affected, as the most dominant personalities in a community are most disturbed by a revolution.

The most influential of the grasses composing the sod is a delicate calamagrostis with fine filiform leaves, and loose, airy panicles that seem to float above the flowery lawn like a purple mist.

Not the least influential of the agents concerned in the superior sweetness of the Shasta flora are its stormsstorms I mean that are strictly local, bred and born on the mountain.

Probably the most influential of Rousseau's writings was "The Social Contract,"the great textbook of the Revolution.

But of all its teachers, I suppose the greatest and most influential has been Burke.