plainest

“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” —

Felicitous Words : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Let me say this in plainest terms: Every man who has fallen in defence of France or of Belgium has died the death of a hero; and every German soldier who has fallen since this war began, being an invader and a murderer, has died the death of an outlaw.

The World's Debt to England 1918

This view was entirely set aside by Chu Hsi, who declared in the plainest terms that the Chinese word for God meant nothing more than

The Civilization of China Herbert Allen Giles 1890

The other three were blown glasses and the plainest was also very interesting.

Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson 2009

The plainest is the sash lean-to somewhat like Fig. 3, which is made by simply securing to a suitable wall a ridge-piece to hold one end of the sashes for the roof, and erecting a wall, similar to the one described above, but without glass, and with a plain, 2 x 4 in. piece for a sill, to support the other ends.

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse 1930

It was all plain fact, and the plainest was her love for Jack Meredith.

With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882

He soon began to take rank in the district as a bit of an oddity: it was not much to be wondered at from the first, for he was always full of notions, and kept calling the plainest common-sense in question; but what most raised the report upon him was the odd circumstance of his courtship with the parson's Marjory.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Miss Betty Ford was of the same age with Miss Nanny Spruce, and much of the same height, and might be called the plainest girl in the school; for she had nothing pleasing either in her person or face, except an exceeding fair skin, and tolerable good black eyes; but her face was ill-shaped and broad, her hair very red, and all the summer she was generally very full of freckles; and she had also a small hesitation in her speech.

The Governess; or, Little Female Academy Sarah Fielding 1739

You could not prosper in Minnesota politics unless you demonstrated a commitment to leaving the state a better place; the plainest measure of that commitment was, in the words of Governor Elmer Andersen, a progressive Republican, investment in the institutions that would help Minnesota build its future.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

You could not prosper in Minnesota politics unless you demonstrated a commitment to leaving the state a better place; the plainest measure of that commitment was, in the words of Governor Elmer Andersen, a progressive Republican, investment in the institutions that would help Minnesota build its future.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010