I remember her so well as she appeared at school and later, that I regret that she had not been faithfully given to canvas or marble in the day of her best looks.
I shall count on eighteen knots at least on the part of the Bronx when the situation shall require her to do her best.
She did not claim to be a blockade runner, and do her best to escape, but "faced the music," even when she realized that she had two enemies instead of one.
The Bronx steamed off at her best speed in the direction of the approaching steamer, which appeared to be fast, and to be of that peculiarly rakish class of vessels of which there were so many engaged in the business of blockade running.
In spite of Elsie's being an admirable dancer, she was too much excited to do her best, and the stranger made no great figure in his first debut in that line.
Inglis was perhaps seen at her best in her dispensary work, for she was truly the friend and the champion of the working woman, and especially of the mother in poor circumstances and struggling to bring up a large family.
It was one of her great rewards that the poor folk to whom she gave of her best rose to her faith in them, whatever their privations or temptations.
She was seen at her best in hospice and dispensary, and in homes where poverty added keenness to pain.
Flinging open the door, he beheld his wife dressed in one of her best silks, before the mirror, bestowing some last prinks, touching her back hair with her hand and twitching the bow at her throat into perfect place.
Then she put on her richest black, and the Paronsina dressed herself in her best, and they both went to walk on the Molo, before the pillars of the lion and the saint, under the escort of Tonelli.
To be in Clare's arms was better than being in the little house on the elephant's back in her best picture-book!
It was plain also she was doing her best to get home, and avoid rousing her sister's tug.
For on deck, and between decks, and aloft, there is so much more going on at one time than at another, that I may well say she was then going at her best speed, for there is quality as well as rate in motion.
The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best Chapter IV.
In her best years, she was intimately associated with the Encyclopædists, to whom she paid over one hundred thousand francs for the publication of their work.
In Paris she produced some of her best works—although they were written to order.
Her depressing melancholy kept her indoors a great deal; in fact, after 1683, after the death of the queen, who was one of her best friends, she was seldom seen at court.
She had also put onher best dress, a much grander affair of black silk than the rose-pink negligee, which Milly had compelled her to bestow upon Amelia.
She proved to be the most sympathetic of all her friends, and Milly decided that Eleanor was her best, as she was her oldest, friend.
Some people regret that he has "buried" himself in Bruges, and that England has practically lost her best sculptor.
In "The Little Minister" and in "Quality Street" I think she is at her best, but above all parts she herself is most adorable.
Mrs. Jones knows that she cannot hold a piece of crumbly cake in her hand till it be consumed without doing serious injury to her best dress.
She was not aware of this herself, nor probably would those who knewher best have so spoken of her.
She declares that Northwold is her best cure, and I am speculating whether she will prevail.
One of her best, because one of her tenderest, is the petite personne.
She is mistress of the chuckle, not of the fou rire; and La Plessis is not one of her best characters.
They talked for some time longer, and Mrs. Frostwinch assured him that she would do her best to secure the votes of the clergymen who were her pensioners.
With Mrs. Ashe, Alice must at least be at her best.
When the Squire, the lawyer, and Doctor Prescott came the next morning, she kept them waiting outside while she put on her best cap.
She was dressed in her best, and Elmira had further adorned her with a little worked lace kerchief of her own, fastened at the bosom with a sprig of rose-geranium leaves and blossoms.
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