All 8 Uses of
utmost
in
The House of Mirth
- She could of course borrow from her women friends—a hundred here or there, at the utmost—but they were more ready to give a gown or a trinket, and looked a little askance when she hinted her preference for a cheque.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not go beyond picturing her usual life in a new setting.†
Chpt 1.9
- Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.†
Chpt 2.3
- His state was one to produce first weariness and then impatience in his hearer; and when their talk was over, Selden began to feel that he had done his utmost, and might justifiably wash his hands of the sequel.†
Chpt 2.3
- The mere fact that they thus showed themselves together, with the utmost openness the place afforded, seemed to declare beyond a doubt that their differences were composed.†
Chpt 2.3
- The hotel being on the edge of a fashionable neighbourhood, the price of the few square feet she was to occupy was considerably in excess of her means; but she found a justification for her dislike of poorer quarters in the argument that, at this particular juncture, it was of the utmost importance to keep up a show of prosperity.†
Chpt 2.6
- But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.†
Chpt 2.10
- What little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(utmost) greatest