"At the most" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tales I read While still of tender years, Of murder strange, of Haunted Grange, And gory Buccaneers! But, at the most exciting point, Abruptly ceased the text,— What rage was mine to meet the line, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 • Various
... being bearded, which is, I understand, characteristic of young America, particularly when it travels; some specimens of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada, and the Rocky Mountains, not to mention English and Scotch. Every now and then, at the most serious moments, sounds of uproarious mirth proceed from a party of Irish, who are playing antics in some corner of the ship. Considering that we are all hemmed in within the space of a few feet, and that it is the amusement of the great restless ocean to pitch us ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
... furtively, timidly, in solitude, at night, I indulged in filthy vice, with a feeling of shame which never deserted me, even at the most loathsome moments, and which at such moments nearly made me curse. Already even then I had my underground world in my soul. I was fearfully afraid of being seen, of being met, of being recognised. I visited ...
— Notes from the Underground • Feodor Dostoevsky
... terribly rushed with work nowadays, Anne. For the last week he has been coming here at the most unearthly hour in the morning, and dashing away like a shot just as soon as he can. Good gracious, we're hardly awake when he gets here. Never later ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... the composition of blue glass singularly preoccupied the glassworkers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. If there is only one red, two yellows, two or three purples, and two or three greens at the most, there are infinite shades of blue, ... and these blues are placed with a very delicate observation of the effects they should produce on other tones, and ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
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