"Lowermost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the Residence, the trader and I. By and by, soft-footed, Signet was there, occupying the lowermost step. ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above. So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood. Tierce after tierce, too, of ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... on one side of the clear space, was a ruinous pile of stones many rods in extent; upon which had formerly stood a temple of Oro. At present, there was nothing but a rude hut, planted on the lowermost terrace. It seemed to have been used as a "tappa herree," or house for making ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... walking, we reached a depth of about 300 meters, in other words, the lowermost limit at which coral can begin to form. But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber. It was an immense forest, huge mineral vegetation, enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia, those tropical creepers of the ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... I spied away again. Meanwhile there was no acknowledgment made at our semaphore—"There, down they go," I continued "Why, it must be a mistake, Stop, here's a new batch going up above the green trees—There goes the tablecloth once more, and the towel, and deuce take me, if I can compare the lowermost to any thing but a dishclout—why, it must be ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
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