Worthiest

Being is pleased to see people following the worthiest object; and the question is, What is the _worthiest? _ " ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

But Bonny Mulgro, as we must call the worthiest foe that ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Bonny Mulgro, as we must call the worthiest foe that Smith's prowess encountered, appeared upon the field. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

No. It is a gift He will give you -- as the crown and the palm of the worthiest will be His free gift at last. ❋ Unknown (1859)

It was probably much more ancient: but it was, however, attended with very great and pernicious inconveniencies, as it was obviously an affair of difficulty to determine who should be called the worthiest of the blood; and a door being always left open for ambition, this order introduced a greater mischief than it was intended to remedy. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

-- what we are fittest (worthiest, that is) to do, and what is best worth doing? ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

The idea underlying the proposal is to allow patent applicants to benefit from the combined knowledge of field experts, ensuring that only the "worthiest" inventions get the 20-year grant of monopoly rights that come with an approved patent. ❋ Peter Zura (2005)

So then always that knowledge is worthiest which is charged with least multiplicity, which appeareth to be metaphysic; as that which considereth the simple forms or differences of things, which are few in number, and the degrees and co-ordinations whereof make all this variety. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"After you've publicly called her worthiest, fairest, and purest? ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

I’ve just now come upon such a deed for us to do, that we two will be called the worthiest men alive -- to be where the torture’s thickest. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)

Though hardly the oldest member of her lineage, she had been deemed by a plurality of her clan as the worthiest successor to her great-grandfather, Gorelt, after his death. ❋ David R. George III (2011)

He conducted a funeral for those who had fallen in battle, then honored the worthiest of the survivors with special citations and prizes equal to their bravery. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

But in the middle of this, holding onto her integrity with both hands, is Margaret Mackenzie, who continually balances calm common sense and insight against her desire to be ‘useful’ and give herself and her money over to the worthiest cause. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, such tools would not have been put to this use if not for the attitude, promoted by the league, that working-class people were the worthiest of subjects. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

Out of all the Nations, Horned Serpent chose the worthiest man he could find. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

“And who is to say,” Graham agreed, “that the adorning of beautiful womankind is not the worthiest of all the arts as well as the sweetest?” ❋ Unknown (2010)