"At worst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the intense repugnance persons have been found to entertain to these, at worst, harmless animals. One shall be given in the very words of the Rev. Nicholas Wanley, who, in his authentic Wonders of the Little World, has recorded a number of other facts quite as marvellous, and ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... my dream in the black midnight— It was only a dream at worst or best— But I lay and thought till the dawn of light, Had the dream been true ...
— Yesterdays • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... been more or less her costume: an undershirt (two, in very cold weather), a pair of pants coming down to the ankle, and well-fitting woollen socks on the feet. A shirt, sometimes in day-time all of one piece with its turn-over collar; at worst with a separate collar and a tie passed through it. Braces that really braced and held up the nether garment of trousers; a waistcoat buttoning fairly high up (no pneumonia blouse)—two waistcoats if she liked, ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... chapter of no small importance in human history. The Greek lucidity, which made all mysticism impossible in their art as it was alien from their life, did not do away with this imperious demand; and their cult of beauty was the issue of their attempt, imperfect indeed at best and at worst disastrous, to reunite the fragments of the ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... and produce the one great result beside which everything else is as nothing. For if, at the price of team work and playing for the side, we can only buy two or three more years of individualism—at an age when the value of individualism is, at best, a doubtful blessing and, at worst, sheer blatant selfishness—we shall indeed have messed things up. The cranks will be delighted; but the Empire ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
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