"Best of all" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saying of a Judge of the old school, that all kinds of wine were good, but the best wine of all was "two bottles of port!" In the same style, one may venture to say that all kinds of hunting are good, but that the best of all is fox-hunting, in a grass scent-holding country, divided into large fields, with fences that may be taken in the stride of a thorough-bred, and coverts that comprise good gorse and open woods—that is, for men ...
— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey
... a man has been feeling unkindly, and talking unkindly, the best of all atonements is to do ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... as he read, "By Allah, the fear of the Lord is the best of all property, the pillar of certainty and the sole sure stay. Verily, Death is the truth manifest and the sure behest, and therein, O thou, is the goal and return place evident. Take warning, therefore, by those who to the dust did wend and hastened on the way of the predestined end. Seest ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... Elspeth MacTavish, in the 'Waverley Novels,' and such, articles by Christopher North as 'Cottages,' 'Hints for the Holidays,' and a 'Glance at Selby's Ornithology,' are all coloured by familiarity and fellow-feeling with Ossian's style. Best of all, the Highlanders as a nation have accepted Ossian as their bard; he is as much the poet of Morven as Burns of Coila, and it is as hopeless to dislodge the one from the Highland as the other from the Lowland heart. The true way to learn to appreciate Ossian's poetry is not to ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... to worship God by bringing the best of all they had to Him, and so Cain brought fruit and grain to lay upon his altar, ...
— Child's Story of the Bible • Mary A. Lathbury
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