All 15 Uses of
utmost
in
John Adams, by McCullough
- "I am ....under all obligations of interest and ambition, as well as honor, gratitude and duty, to exert the utmost of abilities in this impor-tant cause," he wrote, and with characteristic honesty he had not left ambition out.†
Subsection 1.1.2
- The Boston Gazette reported Virginia in a state of "utmost consternation."†
Subsection 1.1.2 *
- Hesitating no more than he had over Jonathan Sewall's offer of royal appointment, Adams accepted, firm in the belief, as he said, that no man in a free country should be denied the right to counsel and a fair trial, and convinced, on principle, that the case was of utmost importance.†
Subsection 1.1.2
- The crux of the matter was the Pennsylvania delegation, for in the preliminary vote three of the seven Pennsylvania delegates had gone against John Dickinson and declared in the affirmative, and it was of utmost interest that one of the three, along with Franklin and John Morton, was James Wilson, who, though a friend and ally of Dickinson, had switched sides to vote for independence.†
Subsection 1.3.1
- She would have him no other way than he was; she believed fervently in what he was doing, encouraged him in the role, and wished no other for him; she wanted him to be where he was doing his utmost for the country.†
Subsection 1.3.2
- Through the night, under the cover of darkness, rain, and fog, Washington's army had been ferried across the mile-wide East River, through powerful currents, in every conceivable kind of small boat, most of them manned by Massachusetts fishermen—some 9,000 to 10,000 troops with baggage and equipment, all moving with utmost silence.†
Subsection 1.3.2
- With a smile, Franklin replied, "My Lord, we will do our utmost endeavors to save your Lordship that mortification."†
Subsection 1.3.2
- It was with the utmost difficulty that my little son and I could hold ourselves in bed with both our hands, and bracing ourselves against the boards, planks, and timbers with our feet.†
Subsection 2.4.2
- There being as yet no national constitution, the form of government chosen by each of the states was a matter of utmost gravity.†
Subsection 2.4.4
- He appears to me to be infected with no party passions or national prejudices, or any partialities, but for his own country......Since our meeting upon our new commissions, our affairs have gone on with utmost harmony and nothing has happened to disturb our peace.†
Subsection 2.6.3
- For as it was, the troops had the utmost difficulty to restrain the mob.†
Subsection 2.6.4
- Adams took his new assignment with utmost seriousness, rightly confident that he had given as much thought to British-American relations, and issues of war and peace, as had any American.†
Subsection 2.6.4
- Three weeks later, in mid-January, to Adams's utmost joy, his son Thomas, now twenty-seven, arrived in Philadelphia after four years abroad.†
Subsection 3.10.1
- Adams and Pickering were said to "hate each other with the utmost cordiality."†
Subsection 3.10.4
- But it all had to be taken with utmost seriousness.†
Subsection 3.11.1
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