What is "directest"

Usage examples of "directest".

Giovanni by the directest way--descending, that is, to the level of the Stura, crossing it, and then going straight up the mountain.

As I advanced along the bank opposed to them, I was further amazed to hear them discoursing quite equably together, so that it was impossible to say on the face of it whether a catastrophe had occurred, or the great heat of a cloudless summer day had tempted an eccentric couple to seek for coolness in the directest fashion, without absolute disregard to propriety.

Nataly saw them both alert, in the terrible manner peculiar to both, for the directest of the bare statements.

Madge, of which he was a trifle conscious, that drove him to do his work of service in the directest manner.

Minorca was the directest course for Barcelona, and the wind would serve.

The directest and clearest way of giving a descriptive account of the active philosophical history of this class of disbelievers will be to follow on the lines of their tracks with statements and criticisms of their procedures.