With respect to editors, Mr. Lyell would be the best if he would undertake it; I believe he would find the work pleasant, and he would learn some facts new to him. As the editor must be a geologist as well as a naturalist, the next best editor would be Professor Forbes of London. The next best (and quite best in many respects) would be Professor Henslow. Hooker would be VERY good. The next, Mr. Strickland. (After Mr.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
Artist; why don't you work for them with new brushes? you work best with old? I contend, sir, that you can't. Does my housemaid clean best with an old broom? Do my clerks write best with old pens? Don't color up, and don't look as if you were going to quarrel with me! You can't quarrel with me. If you were fifty times as irritable a man as you look, you couldn't quarrel with me.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
The housemaid had ONLY 1L. a month, but told me herself she had taken 8L. in one week in 'tips'. She was an excellent servant. Up country here the wages are less, but the comfort greater, and the chances of 'getting on' much increased. But I believe Algoa Bay or Grahamstown are by far the best fields for new colonists, and (I am assured) the best climate for lung diseases. The wealthy English merchants of Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay) pay best. It seems to me, as far as I can learn, that every really WORKING man or woman can thrive here.英文原著 · 《Letters from the Cape》
Rice, of the City Library, Springfield, Mass., writes: "We have a manuscript catalogue of the best and most popular books for boys and girls. We call attention to the best books as we have opportunity when the young people visit the library. We endeavor to influence the teachers in our public schools to aid us in directing the attention of boys and girls to the best juveniles, and such other books as they can appreciate."英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Tully to thee, Rome's eloquent sole heir, The best of all that are, shall be, and were, I the worst poet send my best thanks and pray'r: Ev'n by how much the worst of poets I, By so much you the best of patrones be.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
One has only to ask any of the theatrical people and they will tell you that the audiences in Glasgow and Edinburgh are the best in the British Isles--possess the best taste and the best ability to recognise what is really good.英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
They have the best buys, But having the best buys isn't the only thing That makes a Best Buy the bestBest Buy.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I want to give your baby the best life, the best schools, the best opportunities-- You think, because you left here, you're better than me.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And our own perceptions as physicians of the best medical care. and our own perceptions as physicians of the best medical care.演讲 · 《A doctor's touch ~ Abraham Verghese》