What is "chiefest"

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He knew it was that room and no other by its pale violet hangings, silver fittings, and a half hundred more apposite details, chiefest perhaps two painted panels in the far wall depicting an unclad maiden and crocodile erotically intertwined and a youth and leopardess similarly entangled.

The rats’ prophets and chiefest allies amongst humankind are numbered among their saints, of whom the recentest to be canonized are St.

Hisvet, Lankhmar Below being the chiefest city of the rats, although, unlike Ilthmar, the worship of the rat god is forbidden in Lankhmar Above.

There when the Elfin knight arriued was,The first and chiefest of the seuen, whose careWas guests to welcome, towardes him did pas:Where seeing Mercie, that his steps vp bare,And alwayes led, to her with reuerence rareHe humbly louted in meeke lowlinesse,And seemely welcome for her did prepare:For of their order she was Patronesse,Albe Charissa were their chiefest founderesse.

The Squire arriuing, fiercely in his armesSnatcht first the one, and then the other Iade,His chiefest lets and authors of his harmes,And them perforce withheld with threatned blade,Least that his Lord they should behind inuade.

Ah Sir, but mote ye please,Sith ye thus farre haue tendred my poore case,As from my chiefest foe me to release,That your victorious arme will not yet cease,Till ye haue rooted all the relickes outOf that vilde race, and stablished my peace.

Therewith some other of the chiefest theeuesBoldly him bad such iniurie forbeare.

My chiefest task—and yours while you are with me—is to find the Treasures and bring them home to Keltia.

They were gaping at the treasures on display in the courtyard, chiefest among them the statues of the Elabonian Emperors Ros the Fierce, who had conquered the northlands for the Empire, and of his son, Oren the Builder, who had erected the temple now standing above the entrance to the Sibyl's cavern.

And you can be glad Aragis the Archer isn't here to hear you call me the chiefest warrior, too.

I often compared myself to them, and finding that my chief superiority consisted in power, I soon persuaded myself that it was in power only that I was inferior to the chiefest potentates of the earth.

It was a curious fact, that at this period, when by the marriage of Perdita I was allied to one of the richest individuals in England, and was bound by the most intimate friendship to its chiefest noble, I experienced the greatest excess of poverty that I had ever known.

Diligently train your ideals UPWARD and STILL UPWARD toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community.

And the chiefest is this--that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is nothing of the kind.

Perhaps by now things have changed, and he is content that the Merlin should be only his chiefest of councillors.