...For it is strange, yet certain, that the zenith of courage and the acme of villainy can alike be bought for the price of a lady’s glove...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...The acme of discomfort and vexation was realized on the five-mile march from the Rudewa branch...
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」
...That is the acme of breeding...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...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'」
...It isthe acme of detachment, of indifference...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...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」
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The reference is to the Acme and Septimius of Catullus,xliv...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...He remembered the top stories ofthe Acme building were constructedwith a step of ten feet in from thestreet line, for every story of constructionabove the 24th floor...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...As he spoke he sucked in his breath with thatsnakelike hissing sound which is the acme of politeness, in Japan—"thatmy humble breath may not blow upon you"—and spread wide his hands...
Arthur J. Burks 「Lords of the Stratosphere」
... 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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