It must have been good to have enabled the players to finish second in the championship contest, but the team, speaking in the broadest sense, seemed to be just good enough not to win the championship.

Argument is indulged in, and so is description (though less freely), but they are of the bluntest and broadest.

Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.

There is a shrewd insight into the motives of human conduct that makes some of these graceful sketches belong to the literature of philosophy, using the word philosophy in its deepest and broadest sense.

We came to the cave, and, clambering up the rocks, came to an arch, open at one end, one hundred and eighty feet long, thirty broad, in the broadest part, and about thirty high.

It is not necessary to say that the sentiment must be wrong which leads us to such strange errors, which obliterates the broadest distinctions, and persuades us to give to feebleness and vice rewards which should be given to genius and virtue alone.

I have refused to understand Nature's broadest hints, that anything which is so disagreeable is not meant to be left about.

Notholàena dealbàta Fronds two to six inches long, triangular-ovate, acute, broadest at the base, tripinnate.

Broadest at the base, with lanceolate, serrulate divisions united by a broad wing.

Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, broadest just above the base.

Pinnæ deeply pinnatifid, broadest in the middle.

Pinnæ two to three inches long, broadest at the base, triangular-oblong, or the lowest triangular.

Lance-shaped; broadest above the base and tapering to the apex.

There can surely be no dispute that Robert Schumann was one of the most original and individual of composers, and one of the broadest and deepest-minded musicians in the history of the art.

With loving interest in the boy's welfare, Asa Niles inspired him to get the broadest education in order to make the most of himself, yet ever held before him the highest ideals of life and manhood.

And because one boy did so struggle, thousands of boys now are being given the broadest education, practically free.

She is presented in that book as the writer of fiction who "stands out as the deepest, broadest and most catholic illustrator of the true ethics of Christianity; the most earnest and persistent expositor of the true doctrine of the cross, that we are born and should live to something higher than love of happiness.

They clinked glasses and pledged each other in French and English and broadest Scotch, with a "Hell to the Kaiser!" and "à bas Guillaume!"

This necessity, to give it the best name, to which man is exposed without and subjected within, is in its broadest conception the power that increases life, and all things are under its sway.

The great hold that the doctrine of equality has upon the masses is not merely because it furnishes the justification of the whole scheme, which is a logic they may be dimly conscious of, but that it establishes their title to such good in human life as they can obtain, on the broadest scale and in the fullest measure.

John founded the Oneida Community upon the proposition that everything should be in common, including husbands, wives, and children; from the broadest possible communism his community has regenerated into the closet of stock

"He had the broadest face across here I ever saw," he said.

Along that river bank were some of the broadest haughs with which I am acquainted, and some of the best salmon streams, then woods and sheep pastures and a dozen miles of heather hillsup to Cairn-monearn and Kerloachgiving the best grouse-shooting in the country.

He spoke the broadest Scotch.

I have observed that he adhered to the broadest Scottish dialect.