chiefest

It’s ridiculous that our chiefest, most visible civic icon and landmark shouldn’t serve the city’s interest better.

Reading great prose is one of my chiefest joys.

Still, in 1612, when Capt. John Smith published a map of his ventures up the James River, it included the locations of five Monacan villages, including the “chiefest town” of Rassawek, a major trading town.

Three words pretty much sum up the chiefest reasons for chief executives’ pilgrimages here: gold, glory and golf.

Still, as the religion of the Perfect Woman teaches, “it is man’s chiefest honour to be chosen: his highest duty to give, wherever bidden, his love, his devotion, and his loyalty.”