wholesomest

Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

Uncollected Prose 2006

'Nay: women is to take their husbands' opinion, both in politics and religion: it's wholesomest for them. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

I was invited to-day to dine with Mrs. Van, with some company who did not come; but I ate nothing but herrings; you must know I hardly ever eat of above one thing, and that the plainest ordinary meat at table; I love it best, and believe it wholesomest.

The Journal to Stella 2003

This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesomest soil in England.

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

To take pleasure in one's own mental alertness is the worthiest, the wholesomest, and not the easiest manner of listening to music ....

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII Various

I would therefore advise the carefull Nurse as a friend, that she should be sure to provide her self with the _Compleat Cook_, that she might be the more ready to help the Child-bed woman to think upon what she hath a mind to have made ready, for her brains are but very weak yet; so that she cannot so quickly and easily remember at first what is pleasantest and wholesomest to be eaten.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

The holidays were filled with such things as a congenial country house-party can furnish -- the wholesomest, jolliest things in the world; and the end, when it came, was regretted by all.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

This is, I doubt not, the wholesomest way of disposing of the dead; and, even to the sense, is better than the horrid burials at Bahia, where they must infect the air.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

The pleasure such meetings give is of the purest and wholesomest nature.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham