When Lady Anne rejoined her sister and their bosom friend, Miss Seymour, after the disconcerting interview with Carleton, she explained her tears by saying they were due to her having been 'obliged to refuse the best man on earth.'

he was the best man for repartee I ever knew.

For example, you believe A to be absolutely the best man for parliament; you mark him 1.

" "Get the best man possible!" commanded Mr. Merrick.

If Socrates, by provoking questions and fearless irony, drove the Athenians to such wrath that they took his life, even when everybody knew that he was the greatest and best man at Athens, how much more savage and malignant must have been the narrow-minded Jews when Jeremiah laid bare to them their sins and the impotency of their gods, and the certainty of retribution!

He did not present the best man, who to her relief seemed disposed to keep out of their way.

They came into this 'ere Cauliflower public-'ouse like brothers, and in less than ten minutes everybody was making as much fuss o' Bob Pretty as if 'e'd been the best man in Claybury.

English King best man in world, he love his people very good much; he speak very kind to me, I love him very much.

I fancy I shall be discharged very soon, and the moment I am I shall return to my old master's country seat, if it be only to see Parson Adams, who is the best man in the world.

"I was Diamond's second," said Roll, "but I am satisfied that the best man won.

The fellows will declare I was prejudiced against Gordon, and they will not be to blame unless you can prove yourself the best man.

There's no sentiment here, and I hold my job merely because I'm the best man in the shop.

It was a proof to me once again that heaven is true, that the good God loves and comprehends us all, to see how His wisdom, which is unerring, had chosen the best man in Semur.

It afterward transpired that the hapless best man, left in the coal cellar, and not missed until the party was halfway home, had only wrenched his ankle, and made his escape to the village tavern for consolation, proving that even commercial travellers may be upset by a fashionable wedding ceremony.

Ross arrived in the red sunset of the wedding eve, Tom Glenning, his best man, coming with him.

On the evening of the Clifford-Jordan wedding Ridgeway Jordan, brother of the bride and best man to the bridegroom, had offered himself in marriage to the maid of honour, Dorothy Broughton.

PADNA I'll take the best man.

He prayed Lord Arleigh to be present as his "best man" on the occasion.

This Master of mine, who is the best Man alive in common Fame, disobliges Some body every Day he lives; and strikes me for the next thing I do, because he is out of Humour at it.

For as Horace observes in my Text, the best Man is faulty, tho' not in so great a degree as those whom we generally call vicious Men. 'If such a strict Poetical Justice, as some Gentlemen insist upon, was to be observed in this Art, there is no manner of Reason why it should not extend to Heroick Poetry, as well as Tragedy.

Was you hopin' to be best man?" "Well, I reckoned I'd take a hand in the responses," he answered; and seemed about to say more, but turned on his heel and went back to his room, shutting the door behind him.

As an assistant in yo' sto'?the best man you could find.

He told her in confidence that "Profess-or Frowenfel'" was the best man in the world; but she boldly said, taking pains to speak with a tear-and-a-half of genuine gratitude,"Egcep' Monsieur Honoré Grandissime," and he assented, at first with hesitation and then with ardor.

Which is the best man to deal with,he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or be who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

"The best man, madam, in all broad London," said I in answer to Mrs. Grainger's somewhat puzzled look, "you could have retained.