"Three months ago most of those fellows were riffraffthe kind that hang around street corners smoking and indulging in loose talk and profanity.

The masters think those whom the slaves fear the most are the best.

Some of the males of each race grew into ruffians, others into gentlemen in the literal sense, some of the females into viragoes, others into gentlewomen; but most of both races and sexes merely became plain, wholesome folk of a somewhat distinctive plantation type.

Most of them, I suppose, are ghosts by this time.

Girls are just the same along the main lines of sentiment and hope and trust and belief in men now as they ever were, and most of this talk about the new woman being different is mere stuff and nonsense.

He came across plenty of tracks, but most of them were old ones.

But what struck them most of all was the grim severity of the palaces, which appeared to be impregnable strongholds, and the towns still scarred with the marks of fierce and sanguinary faction fights.

"Most of the stars seen with the naked eye are varieties of red, orange, and yellow.

The Race of Life you run off-hand too fast, Your fiery Metal is too hot to last; Your Fevers come so thick, your Claps so plenty, Most of you are threescore at five and twenty.

Most of those sold as such are simply deodorisers, and, applied to the skin, are useless.

The most of the inhabitants of this place are beggars.

Most of 'em are such dubs and kill-joys!" Which tactful speech proved to be the best Teddy could have made.

Most of the prize-winners of the present day are sound, useful dogs capable of work, and it is to be hoped that judges will combine to keep them so.

Making allowance for the fact that most of the poet's autobiographic sketches are emphatically "Dichtang und Wahrheit," we can believe that he was an omnivorous reader"I read eating, read in bed, read when no one else reads"and, having a memory only less retentive than Macaulay's, acquired so much general information as to be suspected of picking it up from Reviews.

Many, and for a majority of us, it may be, most of our ancestors were serfs or slaves.

The most that one hopes for, in the way of literary interest, from such surroundings, is a muddled optimism, rather timidly expressed, based on the writings of Robert Browning and Carlyle.

But most of them who that relation plead, Are such ungracious youths as wish you dead.

In the original this large bridge is said to have been at Kolomna, which is on the river Mosqua, of very inferior magnitude; and flows into the Oka, which most probably is the Monstrus of the text.

My old friend Shield, whom I had known at Palmanova, was there, but most of the others were new arrivals from France.

Most of them were evidently, in his opinion, clumsy contrivances for obtaining results which the scientific knowledge and inventive genius of his countrymen had long ago secured more completely and more easily.

In justice to Commodore Schley the navy department officers admit the Spanish officers after the battle said that it had been their purpose, on emerging from the harbor, to have the Vizcaya ram the Brooklyn, believing that the Spanish cruisers could outrun the remaining vessels in the American fleet, most of which were battleships, supposed to be of a lower rate of speed than the Spanish cruisers.

Most of the pews were already full, the latest comers showing slight signs of hurry; and as they seated themselves the bell stopped and the organ began.

Most of the emigrants in and around the Pueblo of Sonoma were Americans from the western frontiers of the United States.

Some very old fellows were there, with lean, hollow cheeks, and scanty locks, but the most were warriors in their prime.

Nevertheless, the mass of quotations, most of them with exact references, collected by him, and printed under the word-groups which they illustrated, was a service never to be undervalued or forgotten, and his work, 'A New Dictionary of the English Language ...