The keenest eye could not discern which portion of the fragments was Nicholls and which Jackson.

The keenest sorrows and joys are not for her, nor is she called upon to display a great deal of strength.

Messer Domenico, Cammilla's great-grandfather, was one of Savonarola's keenest opponents, chiefly in the interests of the Medici, and the great Cosimo counted him among his most trusty friends, but he suffered for his fidelity by being assassinated in 1531, by one Paolo del Nero.

He would have made an excellent fourth when "Willie brewed a peck of malt, and Rab and Allan came to see," and the drinking contest for the Whistle commemorated in another lyric would have excited his keenest interest.

Then she went into her bedroom and sat down, her keenest sensation one of sheer relief.

He would scramble up on her back, while she went on grazingwithout caring to bring her to the elm stool in the corner of the field, which was our mounting placepull her head up, kick his heels into her sides, and go scampering away round the paddock with the keenest delight.

I looked also, but although I have the keenest sight, it was quite impossible to see anything except the ragged patches of moonshine between the great black shadows of the trees.

But all the time I was taking the very keenest notice of everything which might possibly help me.

" In New York his enjoyment of his friends, whom he met often and familiarly, was of the keenest.

The scenes in Germany, we can believe, will seem to many readers of an English book hardly less extravagantly absurdgrossly and gratuitously overdrawn; but the initiated will value them as containing some of the keenest strokes of truth and humour that "Vanity Fair" exhibits, and not enjoy them the less for being at our neighbour's expense.

" Back in the wood the infantry colonel, from a vantage-point half-way up a tall tree, watched the ensuing duel with the keenest excitement.

The cry through the darkness for light, even if light brought destruction, was one that awoke the keenest sympathy of response from my heart: "If our fate be death, Give light, and let us die!" To see, to know, to understand, even though the seeing blind, though the knowledge sadden, though the understanding shatter the dearest hopes, such has ever been the craving of the upward-striving mind of man.

And, child as she was, she excited at once the keenest and most affectionate admiration in Schumann.

A fair young friend, whose aching heart Now feels affliction's keenest dart, Must long in sadness weep; Her brightest hopes are fled away, Alas!

"The keenest eye, or acutest cunning, could not have detected in those undulating hillocks aught but the natural irregularities of swampy ground.

She can bear the keenest glances of the microscope, and to see all her glory would exhaust an antediluvian life.

We export hickory, black walnut, yellow poplar, white and red oak even to Russia and Sweden, countries that are our keenest rivals in the softwood export business.

First in the class, and keenest in the ring, He saps like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring!

" We were surprised to find that he took the keenest interest in American politics.

The bravest, coolest, keenest chap I ever met, the finest fighting-man, the truest comrade and friend,and from time to time something queer peeped out, and one was puzzled....

In fact, the science of radio-activity was engaging his keenest interest at the time of his early death.

A rumor had reached the Court that the funeral of the murdered man would, mayhap, take place this day, and Master Busy would not have missed such an event for the world, not though the roads lay thick with snow and the drifts rendered progress impossible to all save to the keenest enthusiast.

The great rise of prices that occurred was explained by the keenest thinkers of that day along the essential lines of the quantity theory, tho there were many monetary fallacies current at that time.

If she had ports at all, they were so ingeniously concealed as to escape the keenest of his glances.

We have learned by keenest use to know each other's mind: What shall blood and iron loose that we cannot bind?