All 24 Uses of
utmost
in
Bleak House
- This was the utmost description Ada could give me.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- All this and a great deal more he told us, not only with the utmost brilliancy and enjoyment, but with a certain vivacious candour— speaking of himself as if he were not at all his own affair, as if Skimpole were a third person, as if he knew that Skimpole had his singularities but still had his claims too, which were the general business of the community and must not be slighted.†
Chpt 4-6
- And scarcer," says Mrs. Rouncewell, expanding her stomacher to its utmost limits, "than it formerly was!"†
Chpt 7-9
- He would sit for any length of time, with the utmost enjoyment, bathing his temples in the light of any order of luminary.†
Chpt 13-15
- Jo thrusts the handle of his broom between the bars of the gate, and with his utmost power of elaboration, points it out.†
Chpt 16-18
- The class attendant on Professor Dingo's lectures was a large one, and it became my pride, as the wife of an eminent scientific man seeking herself in science the utmost consolation it could impart, to throw our house open to the students as a kind of Scientific Exchange.†
Chpt 16-18
- While he said this in tones of the greatest indignation, he handed us into the little phaeton with the utmost gentleness and was all smiles and pleasure.†
Chpt 16-18
- That any person or persons audaciously presuming to trespass on this property will be punished with the utmost severity of private chastisement and prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.†
Chpt 16-18
- That any person or persons audaciously presuming to trespass on this property will be punished with the utmost severity of private chastisement and prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.†
Chpt 16-18
- "How then?" said Mr. Skimpole with an appearance of the utmost simplicity and candour.†
Chpt 16-18
- Mademoiselle, I will— no matter, I will do my utmost possible in all things.†
Chpt 22-24
- And as our utmost endeavours could only elicit from Richard himself sweeping assurances that everything was going on capitally and that it really was all right at last, our anxiety was not much relieved by him.†
Chpt 22-24
- You give me your word, as from one man to another (and an old soldier, mind you, likewise), that it's honourable between us two, and I'll accommodate you to the utmost of my power."†
Chpt 22-24
- After unspeakable suffering, productive of the utmost consternation, she is pronounced, by expresses from the bedroom, free from pain, though much exhausted, in which state of affairs Mr. Snagsby, trampled and crushed in the piano-forte removal, and extremely timid and feeble, ventures to come out from behind the door in the drawing-room.†
Chpt 25-27
- And he inflates his broad chest to its utmost extent as if to assure himself that he is not smothered yet.†
Chpt 25-27
- His mental sufferings are so great that he entertains wandering ideas of delivering himself up to justice and requiring to be cleared if innocent and punished with the utmost rigour of the law if guilty.†
Chpt 31-33
- In case you choose to leave it here, I can do this for you—I can replace this matter on its old footing, and I can go so far besides as to give you a written undertaking that this man Bagnet shall never be troubled in any way until you have been proceeded against to the utmost, that your means shall be exhausted before the creditor looks to his.†
Chpt 34-36
- And my guardian put a letter in my hand, without any ordinary beginning such as "My dear Jarndyce," but rushing at once into the words, "I swear if Miss Summerson do not come down and take possession of my house, which I vacate for her this day at one o'clock, P.M.," and then with the utmost seriousness, and in the most emphatic terms, going on to make the extraordinary declaration he had quoted.†
Chpt 34-36
- Covering her face with her hands, she shrank down in my embrace as if she were unwilling that I should touch her; nor could I, by my utmost persuasions or by any endearments I could use, prevail upon her to rise.†
Chpt 34-36
- Lastly, the client, shaking hands, beseeches Mr. Vholes, for heaven's sake and earth's sake, to do his utmost to "pull him through" the Court of Chancery.†
Chpt 37-39
- "Volumnia," remonstrates Sir Leicester with his utmost severity.†
Chpt 40-42
- If he were groping in the dark, he could not do better than do his utmost to clear away those clouds in which so much was confused and obscured.†
Chpt 43-45
- I want to see Ada righted, Woodcourt, as well as myself; I want to do my utmost to right her, as well as myself; I venture what I can scrape together to extricate her, as well as myself.†
Chpt 49-51
- "If I have not," pursues Sir Leicester, "in the most emphatic manner, adjured you, officer, to exercise your utmost skill in this atrocious case, I particularly desire to take the present opportunity of rectifying any omission I may have made.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(utmost) greatest