The room was but dimly illuminated by the moonlight; most of the light being blotted out by moving figures at the window.

The Edinburgh Review, the most able of the three and the most in earnest in politics, is the least vituperative.

What influences one most at college, and makes most for one's happiness, is not the fact of the work in recitation-rooms, out of books, laboratories, and under teachers.

There are favours, short of the pecuniarya thing not fit to be hinted at among gentlemenwhich confer as much grace upon the acceptor as the offerer: the kind, we confess, which is most to our palate, is of those little conciliatory missives, which for their vehicle generally choose a hamperlittle odd presents of game, fruit, perhaps winethough it is essential to the delicacy of the latter that it be home-made.

Here the villagers, to get the most out of the soil and to prevent the winter rains washing it off the rocks into the wadi, had built a series of terraces, and the retaining walls, often crumbling to the touch, offered some cover from the Turkish defenders' fire.

In fact, what he seemed to have most on his mind in all his public communications was, to show his hearers how much God loved them in even giving his own Son for them, and the high privilege we can enjoy in loving him.

There was Murray, a regimental sergeant-major, his leg badly broken by the lead slug from a German Askari's rifle, ever the fore-most at the padre's services, chanting the responses and leading all the hymns.

Where's the money to come from?" "From you, of course," Conover replied, "but not all or most from you.

But I did not let him go; and at last, for now I was as strong as before,stronger than most about me,I got out into the air and brought him with me.

With these and such reasons it is pretended that much is communicated through the medium of dreams: When soft sleep the body lays at ease, And from the heavy mass the fancy frees, Whate'er it is in which we take delight, And think of most by day we dream at night.

But the argument which weighs most with the Germans of Austria is that the Poles of Galicia have for a whole generation held in their hands the political balance in the Austrian Parliament, and that the disappearance of the Polish and Ruthene deputies would destroy the Slav majority and correspondingly strengthen the Germans.

Still her claims were admitted by the most fastidious on such points, for a few do remain who think descent indisputable to gentility; and as her means were ample, and her tastes perhaps superior to those of most around her, she kept what was thought a house of better tone than common, even in the highest circle.

Woe is the subject, Phil.;[80] earth the loath'd stage Whereon we act this feigned personage; Most like barbarians the spectators be, That sit and laugh at our calamity.

"Most ob dese wite ladies look jest alike to me.

To write an epic or climb a mountain is merely a dogged thing; the result is more interesting to most than the process.

Even where he is most prejudicedfor instance in his attack on Milton's Lycidasthere is usually something to be said for his point of view.

The society of bees goes further than that of beavers, and in some respects beyond most among men themselves.

You can get them to swallow most anythingif the girl in the case is beautiful enough.

The little madame found herself drawn most toward Clotilde; to her she opened her heartand her wardrobe, and showed her all her beautiful new underclothing.

She wrote, with a rapid pen, pleasantly and affectionately, but yet with a sort of haste which was not usual with her; and, most unlike herself, she disfigured the paper at last with a blot of ink, which put her out of temper, and which she only made worse with her attempts to wipe it away.

more 'n a dozen folks out here, soldiers tew, most uv 'em on horseback. Come quick.

Information having been brought against the defendant, the trial is had in the same term or at most during the next term of court.