Sometimes Peter would get a hook tied to the end of a long string, and amuse himself with what he called fishing, that is to say, he would throw out his line, and try to get it tangled in the slight branches of some shrub, and draw it up, with a few of the flowers attached; but with all his fishing he never got up any thing worth having: the utmost being a torn cabbage-rose, and two or three shattered peonies, leaf and root and all.

The utmost that they can hope to gain is the change of ridiculousness to obscurity, and the privilege of having fewer witnesses to a life of folly.

"The utmost I should think of doing for him would be, perhaps, a little quinine, nothing mo'shurelyhe is really and toory a very shoun' shtay of health.

" "The utmost that a weak head can get out of experience is an extra readiness to find out the weaknesses of other people.

Policy, my lords, is very different from prescience; the utmost that can be attained is probability, and that, for the most part, in a low degree.

Most of them can hardly mend their own clothes, and the utmost that can be expected of them is the roughest slop work.

If he is at length, my lords, alarmed at the ambition of the house of Bourbon, and has learned not to facilitate those designs which are in reality formed against himself, it cannot be doubted, that he looks with equal fear on the house of Austria, that he knows his safety to consist only in the weakness of both, and that in any contest between them, the utmost that can be hoped from him is neutrality.

Yet doth now this thing of evil my longsuffering heart beguile, Though the utmost she vouchsafes me is the shadow of a smile:

"The utmost I can obtain is an assurance that he will not be the assailant.

The utmost these efforts could elicit from her sister was a faint, vanishing smile.

Be kind, for you know a Players utmost Pride is the Approbation of the SPECTATOR.