Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...read the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and other rather ennobling pieces, at a like price. Could the piracy so indiscriminately employed with the books of English authors be turned to some public good, the school-boy of the future might buy "Tom Brown" for a dime, and the poorest family might have its Bible, Shakspere, and Principles of Political Economy...
...reply the "Rusher." Name strikes me favorably. I ask if she is named "Rusher" on account of her speed. The clerk smiles, but makes no reply. I take the best berth that is left. Jenkins, who has been abroad some twenty times or more, tells me it is the poorest berth on the ship; he also charges me to be very particular about what I wear when on board. I immediately order a new diagonal suit of clothes and purchase a fine silk...
...stick; and so, Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face...
...student who studies only for marks, the conventional "grind," is one of the poorest products of a college. His knowledge is of a technical and superficial sort which is likely soon to fall away from him, because it has been acquired only through the compulsion of his own will, and as a means, not as an end. For such a man the literary contest would seem to have been devised, and both he and it are the natural products of the same system...