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Usage examples of fairest.

Though accompanied, during his northern excursions, by friends whose socialities and conversation forbade deep thought, or even serious remark, it will be seen by those who read his lyrics with care, that his wreath is indebted for some of its fairest flowers to the Highlands.

Phoenix is fairest above all others and there cannot be more than one phoenix at a time, so Fenice, I deem, had no peer for beauty.

He will show him the fairest and most beautiful place that he ever saw.

Thou hast slain the choicest creature and the fairest picture--if she had but remained alive!

Now go and busy yourself about it, and set your tomb, as is right and meet, in the fairest place in the cemetery.

There shouldst thou see several of the fairest beauties of France and Britain form a small circle, the brilliancy of which exceeds ten-thousandfold the lustre of mines of diamonds such as thine.

Christendom should not be free, in all honourable service, to devote his hand and sword, the fame of his actions, and the fixed devotion of his heart, to the fairest princess who ever wore coronet on her brow!

The hermit of Engaddi --he whom Popes and Councils have regarded as a prophet--hath read in the stars that thy marriage shall reconcile me with a powerful enemy, and that thy husband shall be Christian, leaving thus the fairest ground to hope that the conversion of the Soldan, and the bringing in of the sons of Ishmael to the pale of the church, will be the consequence of thy wedding with Saladin.

The messenger who delivered it neglected to declare that the visitor would be the fairest flower of the Court.

This fairest, most elusive of winged navigators travels far before it finds its rest.

Indeed, they were the fairest of all, possessing a beauty that was intoxicating, almost paralyzing.

I do, I will send thee to Annwvyn in my stead, and I will give thee the fairest lady thou didst ever behold, to be thy companion, and I will put my form and semblance upon thee, so that not a page of the chamber, nor an officer, nor any other man that has always followed me shall know that it is not I.

And with them came in likewise the Queen, who was the fairest woman that he ever yet beheld.

And Pryderi, the son of Pwyll the chief of Annwvyn, was brought up carefully as was fit, so that he became the fairest youth, and the most comely, and the best skilled in all good games, of any in the kingdom.

Now she was one of the three chief ladies of this Island, and she was the fairest damsel in the world.