The closest of these companionships was that of George F.
The best specimens of the race were to be found in the Southern States, in closest contact with slavery.
Beckwith, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, who had been his closest religious adviser after the death of the Methodist Bishop George F.
There was a force of Federal soldiers on board, and this was the closest quarters of his long journey.
The wintry alternations of freezing and thawing were processes to be observed with closestattention and never-failing interest.
Among the works of the numerous minor poets, the tragedies of Joanna Baillie, with all their faults as plays, are noble additions to the literature, and the closest approach made in recent times to the merit of the old English drama.
He afterwards went to Naples, where, under a severe master, he devoted himself to the closest study and for two years resisted every solicitation to compose verses.
And, probably, this hearty and unanimous condemnation of the creed, held by those who were in the closest personal relation with their Lord, is almost the only point upon which they would be cordially of one mind.
Furthermore, when we examine the rocks of the Cretaceous epoch, we find the remains of some animals which the closest scrutiny cannot show to be, in any important respect, different from those which live at the present time.
You sympathize most with those nations, as a rule, with which you have the closest connexion in language, in blood, and in religion, or whose circumstances at the time seem to give the strongest claim to sympathy.
The latter watched the form recognized by the others as that of Whately with the closest scrutiny, and an immense throb of hope stirred his heart.
She is my niece as well as your ward, and it is the dearest wish of myself and son that she should be bound to us by the closest ties.
I hold therefore to what I said at first; That if there be any saints in the antichristian church, my heart, and the door of our congregation is open to receive them, into closest fellowship with us.
The one who came back with the news was pretty badly cut up and had the closest kind of a call, but his horse was better than any of the others and he managed to escape.
It seemed to him that the Comanches would naturally keep the closest watch of the front of the cabin, and, therefore, he was less liable to discovery if he made a dash from another point.
Ribata, as Belshazzar's closest friend, dwelt in the very midst of this world of craft, and how valuable to him and to his prince so versatile and so truthful an agent as Baba was, none but Ribata himself knew.
The artist with whom Vermeer has the closest affinity is De Hooch.
In some of those devoted to this branch of business, the whisky is rolled-in in the evening, but the wine goes out in the broad daylight, ready to defy the closest inspection.
Still, they have the closest alliance with Laws proper, seeing that being armed with a sanction, they impose a duty.
The relation of Ethics to Politics is theclosest imaginable.
This conclusion was supported by looking at the great diversity of the forms of life which, in any small area, come into the closest competition, and by looking to certain facts in naturalisation.
And when a cross has been made, the closest selection is far more indispensable even than in ordinary cases.
Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give any idea of the time which its deposition has consumed.
The forms which stand inclosest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement, will naturally suffer most.
Yet the advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stands in the closest relation to the land being already thickly clothed by other plants; so that the seeds may be widely distributed and fall on unoccupied ground.
Darwin has remarked that it is when their safety is assured that great criminals really feel remorse, and Blanche might have vouched for the truth of this assertion, made by the deepest thinker and closest observer of the age.
Blanche and Camille were listening to him with the closest attention.
The closest scrutiny of the patient's arms and legs failed to reveal a single mark such as would be made by a hypodermic needle.
Thorndyke listened from the very beginning of my story with the closest attention.
She threw her fur cloak back a little, arranged the strings of her bonnet under her chin, which threw up the daintiness and rosiness of a complexion about which there were many questions among her closest friends.
Bartol, find us the closeststar with a planet--spaceport or not.
Moreover, the struggle between Cross and Crescent would be fierce and to the death, and she was sure that where was the closest fighting there in the midst of it would be found Godwin and Wulf.
Behind him, the brother who had been his companion and closest friend, and the woman whom he had loved in vain; and in front, he knew not what.
I must confess my sinfulness if I want to come into the closest communion with my blessed Lord.
The vengeance of Heaven would have pursued him through all the regions of space; and, screened by the closest envelope of darkness and disguise, would have struck its victim down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "closest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adjacent; immediate; next; present; special
