It may be said that the straightest road to Baktria did not lie through Ecbatana.
The straightest road from the Château de Langevy to the Lignon, led past the Cottage of the Vines--but Hector had no wish to go the straightest road.
Choosing the straightest practical route to the Cimarron at the beginning of the old Indian trail running northward to the Arkansas, they kept on.
At a given signal they were to start, and walk to the fence opposite to each of them; and then return to the tree, and see which had made the straightest track.
After the apostle Paul became a Christian, he made one of the straightest tracks through this world to heaven that ever was made.
But since the road is, admittedly, neither of the straightest nor of the purest, the expectation of impartial and indifferent justice would be a fool's dream.
The Lowry's agent was now Colonel Lowry himself, and his daughter (the best and straightest lady rider in Gonaway) had laid aside her habit as a souvenir of happier days.
A good cricketer, a still better fisherman, a magnificent shot, and not only the straightest but the best rider in the country; indeed riding was his forte.
The plant which gives out the smallest ramifications will preserve the straightest line in the course of its growth.
The soil-pipe should be of cast iron, carefully jointed with lead, not less than four inches in diameter, and carried by the straightest course possible up through the roof and generally higher than the ridge-pole.
It will descend through the soil by the straightest course, and will raise the general level.
But to the disgust of the regiment, and more especially of the British officer, who understood the Pathan code, the upholder of honour, one of the best and straightest men they had, was hanged.
They are the straightest people I have ever struck," he said.
Our straightest way homewards passed just under a bluff head about fifty miles distant, and so far I could easily perceive a most favourable line of route by avoiding several large reedy lakes.
This was our straightest course, but we had to keep along the riverbank for another reason.
Being generally at the wicket, it produces the straightest play: falling stumps are “no flatterers, but feelingly remind us what we are.
And so the Cave-men began to vie with one another in making the straightest and smoothest shafts.
When they cut the sticks for the shafts the Cave-men made gifts to the wood-gods, and asked for the straightest and toughest branches that grew on the trees.
He once was chief in all the rustic trade; His steady hand the straightest furrow made; Full many a prize he won, and still is proud 190 To find the triumphs of his youth allow'd.
Show me the man who can drive his best and straightest after five practice swings on the tee.
Vardon drove the straightest ball and then deliberately played short of the muddy race-track in front of the green, but Mr. Ouimet boldly took his brassey, went for the carry, and just did it.
His driving was as long as Vardon's, and he was the straightest of all, while he missed some putts by half-inches.
I know, but even though Johnny is one of the finest and straightest men living, it will be better if in some way your own money is so tied up that it belongs to you and to you only.
And each would take the word of the other against all the world, and each believes that the other is the straightest chap that ever lived-"a white man!
Simply and plainly because Peter M'Laughlan was the kindest, straightest and truest man in the West--a "white man.
In doing this you should try to remove the worst end, keeping that portion with the straightest grain for the head of your shaft.
Go to a lumber yard and select a plank of cedar having the fewest knots and the straightest grain.
Whereupon, by the straightest line, we shall, at the last, land upon the shore of realism, of truth all inclusive.
In the curved space, the straightest line is a curved line which returns upon itself.
In this way, the two straightest lines of the pseudospherical surface may be indefinitely produced, giving a kind of space (pseudospherical) in which the axiom of parallels does not hold true.
And if a man were offended with another, he went his straightest way home and took gun and whinger to lie in wait for his enemy.
Oh, he’s the straightestchap in the world,” said Maddox.
By the way, I told Adams you were the straightest chap in the world.
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