Choicest

Accordingly your first newspaper was received by me in choicest mood; and the second would have been pitched in the fire, had there been one at hand, when, after having tumbled myself from the top story at the risk of my neck, I found myself deluded with 'wun penny'm.' ❋ Unknown (1883)

Her stature was straight as the letter I150 and her face shamed the noon sun’s radiancy; and she was even as a galaxy, or a dome with golden marquetry or a bride displayed in choicest finery or a noble maid of Araby. 151 Right well of her sang the bard when he said: — ❋ Unknown (2006)

The choicest are the so-called French, or = Tagetes patula =, which have richly coloured flowers, and some of the varieties are beautifully striped. ❋ Sutton And Sons (N/A)

-- God calls the choicest warriors to Him, to set "over" the work of devastating Idumea. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Fetid fruit of the wild vine [Maurer], instead of "choicest" grapes. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Substitute the workplace for the hunting ground, you still get the most attractive people getting the best rewards-the "choicest" feeding opportunities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of printed books one of the choicest is a very fine Caxton, "The Boke of ❋ Robert Forsyth Scott (1891)

SeaPort's choicest route may have been done in by its own success. ❋ Joel Millman (2012)

But it is the love of the critics that gratifies Cooper the most, such as when the Daily Mail eruditely weighs in on one of his choicest works: "In one hilarious snap the moment he mocks a dog trapped behind the glass of someone's front porch is taken with almost human-like humor." ❋ ARTINFO (2011)

By the ounce, Ramsay says, the choicest varieties still sell for as much as $400, but the cannabis connoisseur can pick up high-grade strains for half that amount today. ❋ Adrian Higgins (2010)

She's in that top tier of stars among whom the allegedly choicest scripts circulate incestuously until one of them jumps ship or another climbs aboard. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For this is Nature's holyday [2] I also observed that round the whole scene were distributed a great variety of tables set with the choicest and most tempting refreshments; such they apeard to be; but whither on being touch'd as in some other enchanted woods and castles they would have vanished from before me I cannot tell as I did not put it to the trial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Out in the middle, things have not gone so swimmingly, although no doubt Mr. Hilditch was more than happy as his choicest threesome allowed Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook to breeze past fifty for the first wicket with some really poor new-ball bowling. ❋ Michael Atherton (2011)

An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

In Oakland's openly drug-tolerant district, I am taken to a cafe-style dispensary where buyers pore over the choicest buds for smoking and buy cuttings for $12 apiece, to a medical marijuana club where three members are drawing on skinny cannabis cigarettes, and to a curtained speak-easy where the patrons are enjoying a game of pool. ❋ Adrian Higgins (2010)

The sea lions are feasting on this area's choicest runs of salmon, steelhead trout and sturgeon, and during the last decade have been taking thousands of fish every spring. ❋ Joel Millman (2011)

The idea on both events is to build audiences by switching viewers between the choicest action — with the NCAA, that means staggered tip times in hopes of creating a parade of buzzer-beaters — rather than just somehow showing everything. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And after things are untangled and you have had time to appreciate the close shave, you go up to Prince and reprove him with your choicest vocabulary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)