trustiest

• “In 1894, Mark Twain wrote that "a public library is the most enduring of memorials: the trustiest monument of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them".”

  The Guardian: Zadie Smith joins campaign to save her local library

• “A local road-construction worker, 50-year-old Jerry Leonard, has become the Paul team's trustiest phone-banker.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Meditators Back Paul for Peace

• “In an 1894 letter to the Millicent Rogers Library, Mark Twain wrote, "A public library is the most enduring of memorials; the trustiest monument of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Mr Vaizey, in the library, with the axe

• “Rolex is one of the trustiest brands around: not many surprises but you know you are getting exceptional quality and reliability.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Haute Couture Takes On Horlogerie

• “The interval between the front and rear-rank men will best be filled supposing that the decadarchs are free to choose their own supports, and those chosen theirs, and so on following suit; since on this principle we may expect each man to have his trustiest comrade at his back.”

  The Cavalry General

• ““Come now, since we are all of one mind, each of you give me five of the trustiest fellows in his company, and let them go the rounds, and see how the supplies are furnished; let them praise the active servants, and where they see neglect, chastise them more severely than their own masters could.””

  Cyropaedia

• “[44] Thereupon Araspas took his leave, called together his trustiest attendants, said what he thought necessary for the occasion, and departed.”

  Cyropaedia

• “Gobryas sent word to Cyrus, bidding him ride round and see where the place was easiest of approach, and meanwhile send his trustiest”

  Cyropaedia

• “[68] Then the princes gathered the trustiest men and stood at the gates, fighting on the breastworks themselves, and urging their troops to make a stand.”

  Cyropaedia

• “When a breeze from the country that has lost its way takes fright and makes a blind hurry to rush out again, it flings as much dust in the eyes of Allegory as the law – or Mr. Tulkinghorn, one of its trustiest representatives — may scatter, on occasion, in the eyes of the laity.”

  Bleak House

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