compactest

It is shown also in the melting of metals which, being of the compactest texture, do not readily swell and dilate, but yet their spirit being dilated in itself, and thereupon conceiving an appetite for further dilation, forces and agitates the grosser parts into a liquid state.

The New Organon 2005

It was enough to know how a party might be led towards their enemies, with the greatest secrecy, or conducted from them in the compactest order.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Here they are of three kinds: coarse and rough basaltic lava for the first and rudest work; red granite and syenitic granite for the next stage; and, lastly, an admirable handmill of the compactest grey granite, smooth as glass and hard as iron.

The Land of Midian 2003

If it were one's fortune to be sent to prison, -- and the access to such retirement is growing more and more facile in many regions of our common country, -- one would certainly wish to carry a dumb-bell with him, precisely as Dr. Johnson carried an arithmetic in his pocket on his tour to the Hebrides, as containing the greatest amount of nutriment in the compactest form.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

After such incubation, he will recognize his natural food, and compactest fuel for the lamp of life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

Here we have in its compactest expression the difference between this age and the classic: that I, the vilest of sinners, am the object of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Oh that this letter had wings, that it might fly to tell you that my desk, the most elegant, the compactest, the most commodious desk in the world, and of all the desks that ever were or ever shall be, the desk that I love the most, is safe arrived.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

Want was to be set upon them in its compactest form!

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Want was to be set upon them in its compactest form!

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

It struck me suddenly as the compactest image and sample of all that passes for Progress, of all the advertisement-inflated spending, the aimless building up and pulling down, the enterprise and promise of my age.

Tono Bungay 1906