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  • Me, the quietest and peaceablest and silentest wife in the world!

    The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

  • The mater had been her crossest, and Bicky her silentest, and the bill, discussed in French, a disgusting and superfluous language, the acquirement of which Kingsmead had used much skill in evading, lay on the table.

    The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915

  • Each with its fragrance -- the elm, the silentest and sweetest of all.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • To the man who is in the mood of looking at it with his whole being, the machine is beautiful because it is the mightiest and silentest symbol the world contains of the infinity of his own life, and of the liberty and unity of all men's lives, which slowly, out of the passion of history is now being wrought out before our eyes upon the face of the earth.

    The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

  • And it would have surprised any body to hear the long conversations she and Mr. Van Brunt kept up, – he, the silentest man in Thirlwall!

    The Wide, Wide World 1892

  • So Bridger sat the silentest around the board and tried to estimate the peculiar situation.

    Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

  • Dumbleton, as I rattled along the smooth highway in a trim dog-cart drawn by a splendid black mare, and driven by the silentest and dapperest of East Anglian grooms.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • Surely it was the silentest inn on the planet! not a living being, male or female, to be seen in it except when I rang my bell, and then the landlord or waiter (both old men) did my bidding promptly and silently, and vanished again into space.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Dumbleton, as I rattled along the smooth highway in a trim dog-cart, drawn by a splendid black mare and driven by the silentest and dapperest of East Anglian grooms.

    Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884

  • When the others reached the wide outer stair of their own veranda, and the coachman's companion had sprung down and opened the carriage, Mandeville was still telling of Mandeville, and no gentle hearer had found any chance to ask further about that missing one of whom the silentest was famishing to know whatever -- good or evil -- there was to tell.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

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