Plainest

“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” — ❋ Unknown (2007)

Let me say this in plainest terms: Every man who has fallen in defence of France or of Belgium has died the death of a hero; and every German soldier who has fallen since this war began, being an invader and a murderer, has died the death of an outlaw. ❋ Unknown (1918)

This view was entirely set aside by Chu Hsi, who declared in the plainest terms that the Chinese word for God meant nothing more than ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

The other three were blown glasses and the plainest was also very interesting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The plainest is the sash lean-to somewhat like Fig. 3, which is made by simply securing to a suitable wall a ridge-piece to hold one end of the sashes for the roof, and erecting a wall, similar to the one described above, but without glass, and with a plain, 2 x 4 in. piece for a sill, to support the other ends. ❋ Unknown (1930)

It was all plain fact, and the plainest was her love for Jack Meredith. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

He soon began to take rank in the district as a bit of an oddity: it was not much to be wondered at from the first, for he was always full of notions, and kept calling the plainest common-sense in question; but what most raised the report upon him was the odd circumstance of his courtship with the parson's Marjory. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

Miss Betty Ford was of the same age with Miss Nanny Spruce, and much of the same height, and might be called the plainest girl in the school; for she had nothing pleasing either in her person or face, except an exceeding fair skin, and tolerable good black eyes; but her face was ill-shaped and broad, her hair very red, and all the summer she was generally very full of freckles; and she had also a small hesitation in her speech. ❋ Sarah Fielding (1739)

You could not prosper in Minnesota politics unless you demonstrated a commitment to leaving the state a better place; the plainest measure of that commitment was, in the words of Governor Elmer Andersen, a progressive Republican, investment in the institutions that would help Minnesota build its future. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

She pulled out the plainest dress in the stack, a dark blue wool serge, and shook it at Miss Milhouse. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

And - but the plainest evidence for this - the reason the Chinese government doesn't even bother to deny it - is that every single day on the world currency exchanges, they take the dollars they earn from sales of the U.S. and elsewhere and put them back into U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He must have been unknown to everyone, unremarkable, the kind who can hide himself in the plainest light. ❋ L.e. Butler (2011)

And yes, I know the story of the lost peasant child, who when asked by the villagers what his mother—the plainest of women—looked like, replied that she was most beautiful woman in the world. ❋ Andrea Buchanan (2011)

Andrew Carnegie described the sprawling mansion he had built on East 91st Street as "the most modest, plainest and most roomy home in New York." ❋ Joseph De Avila (2011)

Rather like Theo, now that I thought about it, always stammering and at a loss for anything but the plainest words. ❋ Kelly Simmons (2011)

In plainest talk: They are zeroing in on ordinary workers and retirees, putting wages and benefits on the line. ❋ William Alden (2011)