straitest

• “Marid in straitest bonds and returned after a while, saying,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “He governed his life by the St.ic discipline, the most hardy, in its practical requirements, of ancient systems, so rigorous in its ethic that Josephus is proud to claim an affinity with it for the "straitest" of the Jewish sects, and so pure in its spirit that St. Jerome ranks its best-known writer as a”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863

• “But if fear was new-born in the hearts of the Unwise Men, the black man was born in a house of fear; to him poverty of the ugliest and straitest type of father, mother, and blood-brother.”

  Simon & Schuster: DARKWATER

• “To those who straitest have their charms surveyed;”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “He told them all that had passed and the giant said, “O my lord, do thou abide in this thy castle, whilst I with my sons and servants repair to Irak and lay waste the city Al – Rusták359 and bring to thy hand all its defenders bound in straitest bond.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “They rode into it straightway, and when that they had gone but a little, and because it had winded somewhat, they could but see the main valley as a star of light behind them, then it narrowed no more, but was as a dismal street of the straitest, whiles lighter and whiles darker, according as the rocks roofed it in overhead or drew away from it.”

  The Water of the Wondrous Isles

• “I have known a harmless, good old soul of eighty, still bepommelled and stoned by irreproachable ladies of the straitest sect of the Pharisees, for a little slip which occurred long before the present century was born, or she herself was twenty years old.”

  The Virginians

• “The singularity and latitude of the summons drew together, from all parts of New England, and also from the Middle States, men of every shade of opinion, from the straitest orthodoxy to the wildest heresy, and many persons whose church was a church of one member only.”

  Uncollected Prose

• “Yet even on the straitest view, we can make some steps towards comprehension of our own superior thoughts.”

  Lay Morals

• “¶ My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.”

  Acts 26.

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