From that moment Sanballat and his friends became Nehemiah's bitter enemies, determined to thwart and to oppose him to the utmost of their power.
It is thirteen years since he left the City of Lilies with his brother Hanani, in order that he might go to Jerusalem, and do his utmost to improve the ruined and desolate city.
Headed by their choir-master they did their utmost to praise the Lord.
The new reign dates with great propriety and decency, the civilest letter to Princess Emily; the greatest kindness to the Duke; the utmost respect to the dead body," Walpole wrote.
The first consul nicknamed her petite peste, but treated her and Junot with the utmost generosity, a fact which did not restrain her sarcasms and slanders in her portrayal of him in her Memoirs.
But, of course, the utmost use was made of ethnological evidence by writers who cut themselves entirely free from the special study of classical or European antiquities.
It is, however, one that should not be undertaken without due consideration and circumspection, and the details of the operation should be carried out with the utmost care and cleanliness.
You know that he has observed them all with the utmost good faith.
Beginning on the slopes, a vast mysterious forest, without village, path, or white inhabitant, stretches inland far and away beyond the utmost ken of man.
The opposite wall loomed up, my utmost frontier of the domain of certainty.
Heartily shamed at my quickening step I hurried on and having consumed a quarter of my hour sat down by the spring mentioned before, just beyond the castle's utmost boundary.
I listened to him intently, yet enjoying to the utmost my prospective triumph.
Then the Chevalier turned to my lady with the utmost courtesy: "What say you, Madame, shall I bear your reply to this gentle captain?
Captain de Mouret," the rough old warrior began, without any prelude or indirection, "I desire to send you at once to Paris on an errand of the utmost importance to myself and to this colony.
My good Miguel," he spake in voice much softer than was his wont, "I do require of you a proof of utmost skill.
I have here some papers of the utmostvalue to myself, to no one else.
The train crept along only too quickly, and we were trying to enjoy to our utmost the stupendous grandeur of the scene by hanging out of the windows of the car, when we gradually became aware that it was fading.
But the accession of Denmark was of the utmost consequence.
The encounter was desperate, and the Russians displayed the utmostvalour before they at length gave way to the discipline and steadiness of Buonaparte's veterans.
But a system of fiction and imposition resembles an untempered sword-blade, which is not only subject to break at the utmost need of him who wields it, but apt to wound him with the fragments as they spring asunder.
They were only employed upon service of the utmost importance, and seldom in the beginning of an engagement, when they remained in reserve under the eye of Napoleon himself.
Buonaparte had indeed availed himself to the utmost of that art of seducing and acting upon the imagination of the French people, in which he accused the Directory of being deficient.
The same laws held out the utmost extent of their terrors against refractory conscripts, and the public functionaries were every where in search of them.
Neither can foretell, with any certainty, the event of the struggle, and each, in justice, can only be held liable for the utmost exertion of his skill and abilities.
He was selected at this important crisis to go as ambassador plenipotentiary to Spain, as one on whose wisdom and experience the utmost reliance could be reposed.
The news of this aggression gave the utmost offence at the Prussian court; and the call for war, which alone could right their injured honour, became almost unanimous through the nation.
The Emperor constantly recommended the Grand Duke of Berg to act with the utmost caution.
This night I'll know the utmost of my fate; I'll be resolved what my rich sister means To assign me for my service.
No, no--the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air That lately kissèd thee.
There were eminent English writers, though perhaps one only to whom the first rank could even by the utmost complaisance be opened or allowed.
Eleanor of Castile; while in his Battle of Alcazar he certainly gratifies to the utmost the popular anti-Spanish and anti-Popish feeling.
They simply endeavoured, with the utmost pains and skill, to drag English up to the same level as these unapproachable languages by forcing it into the same moulds which Greek and Latin had endured.
Edmond looked at him with the utmost contempt and exclaimed: "Conduct me to the wood, to Lord Roland!
Had Cavalier been with the troop, I should not have escaped him, for he possesses the utmostpresence of mind, he is the boldest and indeed the most soldierly among the rebels.
He further added That he was weary of this damned rebellion, For ten thousand guineas would be yours, That doing thus he meant his country's good, And would pursue it to his utmost power.
We cannot, therefore, doubt his having used his utmost exertions in his own diocese, of which our valleys formed a part.
In a word, they fulfilled to the utmost every duty of nature and society.
We will add the testimony of Claude de Seyssel, who affirms that, "for their lives and moral behaviour, the Vaudois are without reproach before men, and do their utmost endeavours to keep the commandments of God.
After finding themselves so thoroughly vanquished at every hand, the panic-stricken rebels fled in every direction, with the utmost precipitation.
He is domesticated, and bred with the utmost ignominy in a poultry run, and his tail is pulled out with impunity.
I shall try my very utmost to show you your little failings--here and there--you know.
Mirabeau spoke of him in terms of the utmost contumely, as being base-minded as a lackey, and totally unworthy the trouble which had been taken on his account.
The former, though in the utmost personal danger, would not be separated from her husband, exclaiming, that her post was by his side; the latter were weeping with terror at a scene so horrible.
At another part of the route, a number of the rabble precipitated themselves on the carriage, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the national guards and some deputies, could assure it a safe passage.
The utmost to which he could be liable, was such penalty as may be due to one who retains possession of plans submitted to his consideration, but which have in no shape obtained his assent.
In the most perilous situations of his life, he showed the utmost reluctance to shed the blood of his subjects.
At this time came the end of the Hsiung-nu empire--a foreign event of the utmost importance.
This was the second major development, and it became of the utmost importance to the history of the next four centuries.
This was of the utmostimportance in all later times.
He now represented himself in all his actions as a man who did with the utmost precision the things which the books reported of rulers or ministers of ancient times.
But they aroused the utmost hatred in the conservative gentry and also in the moderate reformers among the gentry.
Both these points were of the utmost importance to the whole development of the Ming epoch.
The Chinese did their utmost to play off the northern against the southern Hsiung-nu and to maintain a political balance of power in the west and north.
Moreover, and this was of the utmost importance, the state of Ch'i was a trade centre.
Goshawks, when kept to hares, or indeed to any quarry which taxes their utmost powers, should often be allowed to finish their meal on one of their victims.
Simon McGillivray, who was agent in London for that Company, watched all Selkirk's acts with the utmost distrust, and kept the partners continually informed of the turn affairs were taking.
The chief would then harangue the men, representing their wants, and exhort the young men to exert themselves to the utmost to reach the fort with all their skins and to secure good terms from the white men.
It was evident that none in these parts had ever heard the sound of fire-arms for, when one of Mackenzie's men discharged his fowling-piece, the utmost terror took possession of them.
Bering returned from his first voyage satisfied that he had reached the utmost limits of Asia, and that no junction with America existed.
The matter was brought up at several sessions of Congress, and the utmost was done by such legislators as Floyd and Benton to flog it into an active issue.
The Government entered into correspondence with the directors of the Company and ordered that they should exert themselves to the utmost to prevent a repetition of lawlessness, else the consequences must be on their own head.
Unabashed by the surroundings thus presented to him, Captain Godey announced himself, shook hands with the utmost cordiality with Radisson, and pleaded to be allowed to join in the convivial proceedings then in progress.
McDonell now exerted himself to the utmost to assemble the half-breeds from every quarter, for the purpose of a final extermination of the colony at Red River.
Barthier, of Quebec, asserts that the young man received with the utmost disgust, and flatly declined to entertain, his relative's proposals.
Meanwhile the utmost excitement prevailed in Oregon, the settlers of both nationalities claiming possession.
Can you such acts and insolence condemn, Who to your utmost power resemble them?
The charges in the Indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive wars are charges of the utmost gravity.
The fixing of the exact time for this incident is of the utmost importance.
All opposition was crushed with the utmost harshness.
In person he was about six feet high, with a breadth of shoulders and of chest denoting the utmost of physical force which, perhaps, has ever been allotted to man.
One moment he raised himself to hisutmost height, then seizing a handspike which lay near, he felled Hawkhurst to the deck.
So that the water had gained upon them, notwithstanding that they had plied the pumps to the utmost of their strength.
By this he judged that God had called him to some other place; and thereupon formed a resolution of carrying the light of the gospel from isle to isle, and from kingdom to kingdom, even to the utmost limits of the East.
He was particularly devoted to her immaculate conception, and made a vow to defend it to the utmost of his power.
Thais did her utmost to comfort her, though her own heart was scarcely less troubled than that of her younger companion.
