"Uttermost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an alarming degree the young Wall Paper Man presided over the gravy and did his uttermost, innocent country-best to make the Senior Surgeon ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... the incompetent government of Louis XV, and when, on the other hand, the generation which had been brought up under the influence of Montesquieu and Voltaire came to maturity. A host of new writers, eager, positive, and resolute, burst upon the public, determined to expose to the uttermost the evils of the existing system, and, if possible, to end them. Henceforward, until the meeting of the States-General closed the period of discussion and began that of action, the movement towards reform dominated French literature, gathering in intensity as it progressed, and ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey
... which we accord to even the meanest creature without sense to demand it, denying it only to the wretched of our own race: for the blessed release, the rite of uttermost compassion, the coup ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce
... shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be My witnesses unto the uttermost parts ...
— The Ministry of Intercession - A Plea for More Prayer • Andrew Murray
... Then it must be at the cost of His own bearing the penalty due unto the sinner. Thy sins, Amphillis, thine every failure in duty, thine every foolish thought or wrongful word, cost the Father His own Son out of His bosom, cost the Son a human life of agony and a death of uttermost ...
— The White Lady of Hazelwood - A Tale of the Fourteenth Century • Emily Sarah Holt
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