welcomest

THE CONTINENTAL hath many correspondents -- among the 'welcomest' of whom we class the one who speaks as followeth from the far West.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Principled words, backed by actions may have been the welcomest surprise of all.

USATODAY.com - Tourney's twists, turns teach all of us a few things 2006

“If I am never happy till then,” said Cecilia, “sad, indeed, will be my life! no, my gentlest friend, you will always have your share in my heart; and always, to me, would have been the welcomest guest in my house, but for those unhappy circumstances which make our separating inevitable.”

Cecilia 2008

Quoth the girl, “Verily I see a wonderful change in thee, that thou now welcomest me so cordially!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So in pure breasts pure things find welcomest room,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

Relief was come at last, and the study-door closing over the Doctor's portly form was the welcomest sight Harry had seen for many days.

Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

Portraits faithfully drawn are of all pictures the welcomest on Human

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

Carlyle says, “A true delineation of the smallest man, and his scene of pilgrimage through life, is capable of interesting the greatest man; that all men are to an unspeakable degree brothers, each man's life a strange emblem of every man's; and that human portraits, faithfully drawn, are of all pictures the welcomest on human walls.”

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

The American ill-printed Two and-a-half-dollars Copy shall, for Emerson's sake, be welcomest to me of all.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Carlyle, in one of his finest passages, says that 'A true delineation of the smallest man and his scene of pilgrimage through life is capable of interesting the greatest men; that all men are to an unspeakable degree brothers, each man's life a strange emblem of every man's; and that human portraits faithfully drawn are of all pictures the welcomest on human walls. '

Derrick Vaughan, Novelist Edna Lyall 1880