Least yielding

Usage examples of firmest.

An undisciplined and unsettled nation of Barbarians required the firmest temper, and the most dexterous management.

Although Augustus considered a military force as the firmest foundation, he wisely rejected it, as a very odious instrument of government.

Dacia became an independent state, it often proved the firmest barrier of the empire against the invasions of the savages of the North.

The divine authority of Moses and the prophets was admitted, and even established, as the firmest basis of Christianity.

Donatus, who, by his superior abilities and apparent virtues, was the firmest support of his party.

Barbarians the important city of Nisibis, the firmest bulwark of the provinces of the East.

But the firmest defence of Petra was placed in the valor of fifteen hundred Persians, who resisted the assaults of the Romans, whilst, in a softer vein of earth, a mine was secretly perforated.

Deprived of his firmest support, and doubtful of the fidelity of his subjects, the greatness of Chosroes was still conspicuous in its ruins.

Bohemia, less opulent than the adjacent city of Nuremberg, was the firmest seat of his power and the richest source of his revenue.

The long memory of their independence is the firmest pledge of its perpetuity and succeeding generations are animated to prove their descent, and to maintain their inheritance.

Medina enjoyed at the same moment the satisfaction of embracing the two firmest champions of his cause.

The aged caliph was desirous of possessing his dominions, and ending his days in tranquillity and repose: while the Moors and Indians trembled at his name, his palace and city of Damascus was insulted by the Mardaites, or Maronites, of Mount Libanus, the firmest barrier of the empire, till they were disarmed and transplanted by the suspicious policy of the Greeks.

But the firmest bulwark of Jerusalem was founded on the knights of the Hospital of St.

The sight of his blood, and the exquisite pain, appalled the courage of the chief, whose arms and counsels were the firmest rampart of the city.

Unassailable certainly is the thing that gives a newspaper the firmest and most valuable reputation.