...” To them it seemed the acme of wit—truly Teutonic... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... Towards night, the scene having reached its acme of unpleasantness, the rain ceased, and the natives poured into camp from the villages in the woods with their vendibles...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Then, if ever, we realize that the time of the bird and thebeast is passing, the acme of evolution for these wonderful beingsis reached, and at most we can preserve only a small fragment ofthem...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...It is the same throughout:the depraved of mankind are dogs, andthe very acme of possible reproach andcontempt is apparently to be found inthe use of this one term...
Major Gambier-Parry 「'Murphy'」
...88); and this line of development may be followed out until it attains its acme in the State-theology of China and the Kami-theology of Japan...
Thomas Henry Huxley 「The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study」
...Hisimpulse is as genuine and spontaneous as if the substance upon which itis exercised were not the acme of the exotic, and already arranged withthe most elaborate conventionality...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...Inreality, of course, it is the acme of sensitive handling...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...
The reference is to the Acme and Septimius of Catullus,xliv...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
..."Hadn't we better notify the police?"asked the building manager, who hadbroken out in a sweat when he heardthe dire disaster which might be instore for the stately Acme building...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
..."Tell the police that the Acme Theaterbuilding may crash at any moment,"he instructed...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
... The last degree of injustice, the acme of folly is, when society is so blinded as to inflict punishment on those citizens who have served it usefully...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
...Consequently, it is not to be wondered at that in the "good old days ofthe old-fashioned woman," the acme of hospitality was the giving of wifeor daughter to a visitor for the night...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...The acme of all wickedness, was to despise that which the priest was desirous should be looked upon as sacred...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Samuel Wilkinson 「The System of Nature, Volume 2」
...High andlow, rich and poor, indulge themselves in bad languageluxuriantly; but it is amongst the rising generation that itreaches its acme...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
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