Pedestrians darted this way, often, to turn and dart back that, in what seemed a limb-regardless passion to get home in the fewest possible seconds.
To counteract this effect such stays, as havefewest hard parts, and especially such as can be daily or weekly turned, are preferable to others.
In this situation those words, which have the fewest other words associated with them, as the proper names of persons or places, are the most difficult to recollect.
Only three lines, with the fewest words: not another word, line, mark, or figure on any side of it.
To-day--but you shall hear it in the fewest words.
Now, make him do this with the fewest possible turnings.
The fewest possible moves for getting the prisoners into their dungeons in the required numerical order are twenty-six.
The fewest possible moves in which this puzzle can be solved are 118.
If the reader makes a rough plan on a sheet of paper and uses numbered counters, he will find it an interesting pastime to arrange the prisoners in the fewest possible moves.
These are the fewest turnings possible, and the problem can only be solved by the route shown or its reversal.
Put Romeo on a white square and make him crawl into every other white square once with thefewest possible turnings.
Illustration] In order to take his trip through all the white squares only with the fewest possible turnings, Romeo would do well to adopt the route I have shown, by means of which only sixteen turnings are required to perform the feat.
I give the arrangement requiring the fewest possible current English coins--fifteen.
In Stroke Competitions, the competitor who holes the stipulated course in fewest strokes shall be the winner.
Still the man must keep before himself the fact that his main object is to get out in the fewest strokes possible, and in a case of this sort he may be wise to play back, particularly if it is a medal round that he is engaged upon.
The score consists in the number of strokes required to make the hole, and of course the player making the fewest number of strokes is the winner of the hole or match.
The game of golf consists in covering a certain fixed course in the fewest number of shots.
The game, which may be played by either two or four players, consists in endeavouring to drive the ball over the entire course from hole to hole in the fewest possible number of strokes.
Every fault was marked and he who made the fewest was awarded the prize and permitted to take apprentices in the meistersinger's art.
At one extreme we find the summum genus, comprising the fewest possible attributes distinguishing an idea; at the other extreme we find the individual, comprising any number of attributes.
It has been remarked in language, that the best writers have the most brief vocabulary--so it may be, that the best colourists will have the fewest colours.
I may add, that although the middle of the fifteenth century was the period in which the fewest books were written, a greater number, in the opinion of experienced judges, were transcribed in that than in any former age.
He undoubtedly ought to be considered the best engraver who executes his work in the best manner with the fewest tools; while it is no less certain that he is a bad engraver who executes his work badly, whether he use many or few.
The first supports, beyond all comparison, the greatest number of productive hands; the second occupies more than the two remaining; and the fourth the fewest of any.
The provinces most famous for their wines, it will be found, I believe, are those in which the trade in that article is subject to the fewest restraints of this kind.
Buchanan ignores the Reformation; De Thou passes over it with the fewest words, fearing to give offence to either papists or Huguenots.
Let me state, then, in the fewest possible words, that Rachel Verinder had nothing but a life-interest in the property.
In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal accident must have happened to her.
At least, if they be not, they are certainly those we look back on withfewest self-reproaches.
In the fewest possible words he explained Philemon's situation.
In the fewest possible words Janice retold her plight, broken only by interjections of sympathy from her listener, and by two futile endeavours to gain possession of her hand.
A recording secretary, able to state in the fewest words each important suggestion or fact elicited in the course of an evening's discussion, would be hardly less valuable or less honored than a capable president.
It is not to be hoped that the student should imitate works of the most exalted merit, but much to be desired that he should be guided by those which have fewest faults.
It consists of two things: 1st, that the fewest possible number of persons should devote themselves to his branch of industry; 2dly, that the greatest possible number of' persons should be in quest of the article he produces.
I do not know that it is in any degree true that the influence of religion is the greatest where there are the fewest dissenters.
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