What meanest thou to rail right now so contemptuously At the chiefest secrets of all divinity?
O man, what, meanest thou with thy Saviour to fight?
Yet this was not all: they were objects of the meanest and most cruel persecution.
All things depend on his beneficent, nay divine activity, from the heaven above to the earth beneath, from the greatest god to the meanest worm, from the sun and moon to the humblest blade of grass and the minutest particle of dust.
That meanest and most terrible of things--an envious man.
The meanest soldier clothed himself in silk and furs, and drank at his pleasure the costliest wines.
The meanest of his soldiers should receive seven acres of land;"--where he mentioned not.
Every hospital, and many public buildings besides, were crammed with wounded soldiers; and the number of dead bodies, continually floating down the Seine was so great, that the meanest of the populace durst no longer make use of the water.
Under the canon law, any one, from the meanest to the highest, who opposed or impeded in any way the functions of an inquisitor, or gave aid or counsel to those who did so, became at once ipso facto excommunicate.
From the emperor to the meanest peasant the duty of persecution was enforced with all the sanctions, spiritual and temporal, which the Church could command.
For it was evident to the meanest capacity that Mrs. Mangan had now paid her footing in society.
He is, we may say, the common heart of his people, for they are one body; and an infirmity in the very remotest and meanest member is felt there and borne there.
Jeremy Taylor recommends: "If thou meanest to enlarge thy religion, do it rather by enlarging thine ordinary devotions than thy extraordinary.
They all gloried in their sufferings; nor could the meanest of them be brought to purchase their lives by a retractation of their principles, or even by any expression that might be construed into an approbation of their persecutors.
The meanest thing that enny man ever followed for a bizzness, iz making money.
About the meanest critter thare iz now travelling around loose, on the breast ov the earth, iz a bashful hypokrite.
Thare iz one pashun (and it iz the meanest one) that no man who haz ever lived, haz been free from, and that iz envy.
They are the meanest snaix that meanders for a living, and thare iz pizen enuff in one ov them to kill oph a whole tribe ov border injuns, if it waz judiciously applied.
One ov the meanest things in the comik lektring employment that a man haz to do, iz tew try and make that large class ov hiz aujience laff whom the Lord never intended should laff.
The meanest kind ov a loafer iz he, who iz willing tew be abuzed by every one, for the privilege ov abuzing others.
Sum ov the meanest cusses i ever knu had got tew be so honest, bi long praktiss, that they could guess at a pound.
It iz a curious fakt, that the meanest pashuns ov our heart are the strongest when we hav grown old, and the best ones, the weakest.
Most ov the animiles and insex (az well az the men) liv on each other, but the spider iz the meanest in the whole lot, for they set traps for their viktims, and dont even bait the traps.
They are themeanest ov aul crawling, creeping, hopping, or biteing things.
My son,' saith he, `what meanestthou by the Church?
The British soldier is the meanest killing the noblest.
None save those who wish to see The noblest killed, the meanest killing, And true hearts severed from the free, Will take again the Saxon Shilling.
None but the meanest boy will ever torment any animal.
I knew a good, great man who would never tread upon the meanest flower he met in his walks; who would not wantonly destroy a shell upon the sea shore.
If humanity is always adorable, it is so in the faults of the meanest of men as in the splendid sins of the magnates of the earth; it is so to-day as it was thirty centuries ago; the god in growing old does not cease to be the same.
Yet, the other stock on his farm may be the meanest trash in existence, and it creates no remark.
In fact, that wicked fellow had one of the meanest plans in his black heart that ever deserved the name of a foxy trick.
Mother," they finally bleated, "Seems as if even the meanest creatures in the woods had some use.
Bed and entertainment for a day and a night could be had by the meanest wayfarer, so without comment, the maiden took her place among the singers and harpers.
The meanest wayfarer hath the right to bed and board for a day and a night in any house.
But, wert thou the meanest peasant of the Campagna, before my judgment-seat thou needst not apprehend the torture.
Nay, in Florence, as ye well know, my Lords, no noble is even capable of holding the meanest office in the State!
When I was a lord of life and death, I too permitted the meanest criminal to say farewell to those he loved.
But his age, his rank, his former renown in war and state, did not suffice to draw to his grey locks and highborn mien a single one of the shouts that attended the meanest lord on whom the great Tribune smiled.
The tyrant thinks he is free, because he commands slaves: the meanest peasant in a free state is more free than he is.
Merciful one, be not wroth with the meanest of thy slaves," said Ahmed, salaaming humbly.
Their arrival infused the hearts of the besiegers with new courage and cheerfulness; every man, from the general down to the meanest bhisti, hailed Nicholson's coming as the beginning of the end.
This was the first word Cuthbert had heard of any uneasiness in high quarters, and he asked with some eagerness: "Meanest thou that the King fears some evil to himself at this time?
What they read there caused Kate to ask suddenly and eagerly: "What meanest thou by that, Cuthbert?
The modern world, like Mr. Wells is on the side of the giants; the safest place, and therefore the meanest and the most prosaic.
The chief of all, of course, is that miserable fear of being sentimental, which is the meanest of all the modern terrors--meaner even than the terror which produces hygiene.
We are delivered over to the bramble, and from the meanest of the shrubs comes the fire upon the cedars of Lebanon.
And an artist is only a performing bear compared with the meanestman who fancies he has anything to say.
Pluto was a high grade stallion Jabez had got after I lined up Starlight alongside the range ponies, an' he had the meanest temper I ever see put into a hoss.
I found out through the meanest lookin' mortal you ever set eyes on.
Is it true, as an illustrious modern critic[392] has said, that 'the greatest didactic poem in any language was written in defence of the silliest and meanest of all systems of natural and moral philosophy?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meanest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
