Then they would be the carefullest of sly dragons, and pretend to sleep. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And give thou ear to the charge wherewith I charge thee; and keep it in thy memory with carefullest keeping. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was just a relapse, and as such needed carefullest nursing and attention. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And I can assure you that they are under continuous review and given the carefullest consideration, and it seems to me that is the same kind of assurance that the American people get with respect to a lot of things that the Defense Department is involved in. ❋ Unknown (2001)
His genial love of learning, large intelligence, ready appreciation of individual merit, and that genuine love of country which has led him to the carefullest and most comprehensive study of our general and particular annals, and to the frequentest displays of the sources of its enduring grandeur, constitute in him a character eminently entitled to our affectionate admiration. ❋ Various (N/A)
Judith met him on the highroad; and then, while he approached her with the carefullest efforts toward pleasing, he showed the effects of anxiety, the hard life, and the fact that he had begun to drink heavily -- a thing he had never done before. ❋ Alice MacGowan (N/A)
Mr. Selden, Mr. Lawrence Selden, he was always one of the carefullest: burnt his letters in winter, and tore 'em in little bits in summer. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
It is not galloping on the turf; it is being shaken and tossed in a saddle which the knees can never grip, on the back of something gone mad -- for the maddest, wisest, carefullest thing on earth is a broncho, which itself was once a wild pony of the hills, and has been hunted down, thrown by the lasso, saddled, bridled and heart-broken all in an hour. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
All I mean is, that the novelty of Bayreuth, like the novelty of any other small lifeless German town, disappears on a second visit; that though the charm of the wood, of the trumpet calls at the theatre, of the greasy German food, and the primitive German sanitary arrangements, remains, it is a charm that has already worn very thin, and needs the carefullest of handling to preserve. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
The time for short rations, long marches and carefullest scrutiny of detail comes when the men are dependent on their own traction efforts. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)
We are thus brought face to face with the two men with whom every critic of American novelists has to reckon; who represent what is carefullest and newest in American fiction; and it remains to inquire how far their work has been moulded by the skeptical or radical spirit of which Turguénieff is the chief exemplar. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
Prince Michael's shoes were wrecked far beyond the skill of the carefullest cobbler. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
A man must have very little sense if he don't see as he gets older that character and money are the two things he's got to be carefullest of in this world. ❋ Rolf Boldrewood (1870)
Patty, carefullest of housewives, although little comprehending the erratic ways of her lord, had got into the habit of always keeping a slight meal ready for the hungry poet. ❋ Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 (1865)
"She has a nervous fever," he said, "and needs the carefullest nursing." ❋ Frances Fuller Victor (1864)
What Charlemagne, Barbarossa, or Saladin did to teach her, you can trace only by carefullest thought. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
But a much more profound feeling than this mere curiosity of science in morbid phenomena is concerned in the production of the carefullest forms of modern fiction. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
