Uttermost Sentence Examples

Ferdinand drove to the uttermost the advantages of his victory.

Every day in imagination I made a trip round the world, and I saw many wonders from the uttermost parts of the earth--marvels of invention, treasuries of industry and skill and all the activities of human life actually passed under my finger tips.

The administrative duties connected with the army of occupation would alone have taxed to the uttermost the powers of an ordinary man.

Sweden too was now in open revolt; and both Norway and Denmark were taxed to the uttermost to raise an army for the subjection of the sister kingdom.

These honours exasperated his adversaries to the uttermost.

On the 8th of August representatives from every class in the capital urged the necessity of a vigorous resistance; and the citizens of Copenhagen, headed by the great burgomaster Hans Nansen, protested their unshakable loyalty to the king, and their determination to defend Copenhagen to the uttermost.

He was the son of a yeoman, who rented a farm " of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost."

The nobles and clergy of all three kingdoms regarded with grave misgivings a ruler who had already shown in Norway that he was not afraid of enforcing his authority to the uttermost.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing " .

The children of Israel, who are described as having newly returned from captivity, are apprehensive of a desecration of their sanctuary, and resolve on resistance to the uttermost.

My wife is away off to the uttermost parts of the States, all by herself.

It was Governor Altgeld 's definite intent to enforce to the uttermost limit this initial labor law throughout his term of office.

Officers and men alike will put forth their uttermost strength.

There are four-and-a-half million Norwegians, clinging to an icy strip of tundra on the uttermost edge of the continent.

Whereof fail you not as you will answer the contrary at your uttermost perils '.

This is not merely in the vague sense that on the whole good will be rewarded and evil punished, but that every single act must work out to the uttermost its inevitable consequences, and receive its retribution, however many ages the process may require.

Great hindrances were put in the way of the elections, but, as the Prussian and Austrian governments were too much occupied with their immediate difficulties to resist to the uttermost, the parliament was at last chosen, and met at Frankfort on the I8th May.

Meantime the uttermost farthing was wrung from the wretched fellahin, while they were forced to the building of magnificent public works by unpaid labor.

Visual proof was thus, it might be said, afforded of the harmonious working of a single principle to the uttermost boundaries of the sun's dominion.