I never could dissemble at my best, And now methinks your Highness should believe me, When my despairs and little love to life Make me despise all ways that may preserve it.

It is at the fourth bottle," he explained, "that I am at my best.

I am never at my best when the situation seems to call for a certain soupiness, and I've heard other members of the Drones say the same thing about themselves.

" "Ah, well a dayI suppose so, but then I look at my good Master Brewster and remember how, when I was a girl, he was at our good Queen Elizabeth's court, ruffling it with the best, and everybody said that there wasn't a young man that had good fortune to equal his.

Byron replied, 'Perhaps you see me now at my best.'

I shouldn't wonder if she was settin' in the keepin'-room this minute, looking at my best books.

Willingly I myself place at my well-beloved neighbor's disposal, Ready to do him what service I can with my poor understanding.

I made a selection, and could see that they were again surprised at my good taste.

Then I stole out of my quarters and made for the forest, feeling very much easier in my mind, for I am always at my best when the time of thought has passed and the moment for action arrived.

In this place which we crossed ouer, stood the olde mighty city of Babylon, many olde ruines whereof are easily to be seene by day-light, which I Iohn Eldred haue often beheld at my good leasure, hauing made three voyages betweene the new city of Babylon and Aleppo ouer this desert.

I was on my feet in an instant and ran down the tracks at my best speed.

Her form and voice, and other identifications dispelled the mist of the mistake; and it came out as clear as day that I had followed the direction of my host, to bear to the left, far too liberally, and that I had been walking at my best speed in a "vicious circle" for full two hours and a half, and had landed just where I commenced, at least within the breadth of a narrow street of the same point.

AT MY BEST IN PROFILE.

In fifteen years I'll still be at my best; I'll want that horse like the very devil; and he'll be dead of old age, if he lasts that long.

He spoke of this once to me, saying: "I am at my best when alone; even one companion deflects me.

For my part, I confess that I came to my trial as tremblingly as any poor caitiff to the fiery ordeal, and finding myself miraculously clear of the burning ploughshares, was quite as full of wonder and thankfulness at my good fortune.

At my best I was still like that; and didn't they want me at my best?

At my best I was still like that; and didn't they want me at my best?