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Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition of the Tool-using Animal, appears to us, of all that Animal-sort, considerably the precisest and best?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

And so he is," Mr. Hamilton-Wells observed in his precisest way, "and she does not profess to find him interesting.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah

"As Mr Leeson is here, you will not want me, William," she added, in her precisest tones.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Mr. Hamilton-Wells was there, making tea in the precisest manner, and looking more puritanical than ever.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah

Every case declines with precisest conscience; Knows the history of Church and State, together-- Every Churchly light,--of pedant-deeds the record.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright