painfullest

All thy worldly goods are pride and the painfullest repine;

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

To all this, Mr Pancks, snorting and blowing in a more and more portentous manner as he became more interested, listened with great attention; appearing to derive the most agreeable sensations from the painfullest parts of the narrative, and particularly to be quite charmed by the account of William

Little Dorrit 2007

The pleasantest part of the occasion by far, to Clennam, was the painfullest.

Little Dorrit 2007

He knew “from his painfullest recollections on what wretched obstacles promising developments of the highest rank have hitherto usually gone to pieces, broken down, sunk, and become contemptible.”

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes; — there is a depth of happiness in which the painfullest and gloomiest do not operate as antitheses, but as conditioned, as demanded in the sense of necessary shades of colour in such an overflow of light.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Of these there are two sorts; some live unmarried and chaste, and abstain from eating any sort of flesh; and thus weaning themselves from all the pleasures of the present life, which they account hurtful, they pursue, even by the hardest and painfullest methods possible, that blessedness which they hope for hereafter; and the nearer they approach to it, they are the more cheerful and earnest in their endeavors after it.

Utopia 1999

Her disease was of a nature, the painfullest and most harassing to mind and sense, it is understood, that falls to the lot of a human creature.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

As I write I have around me painfullest evidence of the crudest ravishings of opium among a people who have fallen victims to the craving.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

I front all that, without the painfullest emotions; and emotions are certainly/[Page 204]/what I should not go out of my way to seek! just now, - at least not sad ones.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Ride to Edinburgh in the Lady Ashburton's royal carriage, which took fire, and at Newcastle had to be abandoned, dustiest and painfullest of rides, regardless of expense, and yet actually taking fire and falling flat like Dagon of the Philistines.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883