I am sure that the
best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself.
His appearance was greatly in his favour; he had all the
best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address.
This spending of the
best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.
The tradition was broken, the Brownon estates passed into alien hands and the only Brownons remaining in that place were underground in Oak Hill Cemetery, where, indeed, was a colony of them powerful enough to resist the encroachment of surrounding tribes and hold the
best part of the grounds.
David," said he -- "for I cannae bring to mind the name of your landed estate, and so will make so bold as to call you David -- that door, being open, is the
best part of my defences.
I consider my father and mother the
best part of myself, sir," said Mary, coldly.
How can a person who is constantly losing a year of the
best part of her life compete with a young man who never loses any time at all?
It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the
best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.
This Duke Ricardo, as you, sirs, probably know already, is a grandee of Spain who has his seat in the
best part of this Andalusia.
and the weapons are the language, which you, Brown, have never half worked at; and so, as I say, you must have lost all the delicate shades of meaning which make the
best part of the fun.
The servants said he had spent the
best part of his time there during the previous two years.
As it is, you have wasted the
best part of my day with your confounded imagination.
He thought of the waste of the
best part of his life, of the change it made in his character for the worse every day, of the dreadful nature of his existence, bound hand and foot, to a dead woman, and tormented by a demon in her shape.
The Secretary knew it, because his sister's share in that disposal of him seemed to be the
best part of Lightwood's account of the family.
Why, the river rises and falls the
best part of forty feet, and half the country is a morass that you can't pass over.
