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Definition of Harshest
1. harsh [adj] - See also: harsh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harshest
Literary usage of Harshest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"Foundries.—Dust and Ashes.—Slave-gagging.—Freedmen the harshest Masters.—-Salutations.
— Disobliging People. — Hair, Dress, Tattooing. ..."
2. The Irish Element in Mediaeval Culture by Heinrich Zimmer (1891)
"the last contains a passage in the ancient Irish dialect which expresses the
harshest possible sentence upon Rome at that time : A pilgrimage to Rome ..."
3. Excursions in the Interior of Russia: Including Sketches of the Character by Robert Bremner (1839)
"Meekness under the harshest usage—The scourge—Beatings— Severity of masters—Ladies
and their servants—Family executioner—The butler punished—Brutality of ..."
4. A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the by George Brodie (1822)
"... who were not only divested of their livelihoods, but held up in every form to
public abhorrence and scorn*, exposed to the harshest and most inhuman ..."
5. A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and by Richard Phillips, James Gates Percival (1826)
"... to say the truth, the treatment they then experience, is of the harshest and
most discouraging description ; they are blindfolded and tied on camels, ..."
6. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"fected by continental culture ; the other unbridled and formidable, showing an
example of the harshest English instincts, luxuriating without limit or rule ..."
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