saddest

• MAIDEN-MOTHER AND ANGEL-CHILD Of all the tasks to which she put her hand the sweetest as well as the saddest was the care of the babes of the bush. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "it might have been!" —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
• But the saddest is the likely loss of one of my favorite shrubs, a —  Today in Oregon: The Oregonian
• Reverting to the gold-mine simile again, Mr. Goble was in the position of a man who has had a chance of purchasing such a mine and now, learning too late of the discovery of the reef, is feeling the truth of the poet's dictum that "of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" —  Jill the Reckless
• It was a day she was destined never to forget; she felt it to be the saddest, the most wounding of her life. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)

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