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There I was, having the worst attack of acrophobia in history, and then wham!

When, sometime ago, I consulted you in regard to my affliction, bronchitis, I was indeed fearing the worst.

All I would do was annoy Sir Umbrage, who was already in an apprehensive enough mood, and the other knights and squires in the company who seemed to regard my presence as something of an aberration at best, an annoyance at worst.

With singular justice Providence has ticketed him as appropriately as his worst enemy would have dared to do.

Moreover, Padmasambhava warns that without having developed a high degree of attentional stability and vividness, even if one apprehends the nature of awareness, it remains only an object of intellectual understanding, leading merely to philosophical discourse at best and dogmatism at worst.

On the brink of attrition, Vee uttered a choked cry, convulsed by the worst breakout contractions Rimon had ever seen.

Ed Banning called, she always answered the telephone expecting the worst.

He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.

When Lady Bellamy arrived on the following morning, she found him marching up and down the dining-room, in the worst of his bad tempers, and that was a very shocking temper indeed.

Right now, Bern thought, mockery might be the best they could hope for, not the worst.

And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no faces at all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be.

But his worst adventure--he seemed shy in telling it--was when he was caught without snow-shoes in an early fall blizzard, and crossed unknowingly a bottomless half-frozen sphagnum swamp which heaved under his tread and made him vomit up his soul.

Staring at the floor and the black wing-tipped shoes, glowing under ages of wax, her eyes moved up the black worsted trousers shining at the knees, to the breviary held under the same arm as the straw hat, and up to the face.

The Briefless one, muttering that the worst of mixing with journalists was that if you did not watch yourself, you fell into their ways, drank his whisky in silence.

Their furry bodies and habits of burrowing into the shelter of the ground were protecting them from the worst of the cold.