archest

• “Expectations were upended easily when her archest of enemies actually worked with the woman most people agree is funny, warm, diligent and immensely likable in person.”

  Simon & Schuster: Big Girls Don’t Cry

• “His gift was intuitive, not intellectual, so he offered no match for the doctrinal firepower of Antonin Scalia, the court's archest conservative.”

  Newsweek: Why The Court Needs A Liberal

• “Then again, when it came to something Amis actually cared about, he could be as punctilious as the archest of oenologists.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Hangover Artist

• “Laura looked at Warrington with the archest sparkle in her eyes — Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “Ephie, who had rapidly recovered her assurance, invariably began in her archest manner, and it became his special pleasure to reduce her, little by little, to a crimson silence.”

  Maurice Guest

• “In his archest English, as Curtis recalled, Miller sniffed that he knew that Curtis was doing extremely good work at Berkeley—considering the limited amount of equipment he has.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ancestral Passions

• “I was cast in the role of Branwell Bront6 in that archest of plays, Wild Decembers, by Clemence Dane, a lady who entered rooms like a yacht in full sail, her mouth forever puckered as though savoring some inspirational ambrosia.”

  An Autobiography

• “Pinnacled dim in the intense inane' -- no contact can be wholesomer than the contact with Burns at his archest and soundest.”

  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

• “He turns to look at her, being just a shade surprised at receiving such a confidence so early in their acquaintance, and then he sees the archest smile curving the corners of her mouth, and meets a glance from a pair of brown eyes that he now perceives to be beautiful.”

  Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

• “She had a way of lifting her eyebrows to express her archest scorn.”

  Star-Dust

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