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Definition of Narrowest
1. narrow [adj] - See also: narrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrowest
Literary usage of Narrowest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"narrowest Junctions of the Three Oceans So far, the two guiding principles for
maps with physical boundaries have been shoreline boundaries requiring the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The arch rests on rollers and is narrowest at the crown. The reaso'n given for
this change of form was that it more conveniently allowed the lower the ..."
3. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, George Campbell Macaulay (1904)
"... but where it is narrowest it did not seem to me to exceed two hundred furlongs
from the Arabian mountains to those which are called the Libyan. ..."
4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"... the obligation of complete adhesion narrowest to the prevailing doctrine may
be confined to the two services, obligation. foreign and domestic, ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Arizona, a form with narrowest and even linear lobes to the ****++ ++++++ Steins
leafy, numerously or somewhat equably so up to the top, ..."
6. An Account of the Experience of Hester Ann Rogers: And Her Funeral Sermon by Hester Ann Rogers, Thomas Coke (1832)
"Never were the ways of God so sweet as now to my soul: I love the narrowest path
his Spirit and his word point out; and all my delight is to do and suffer ..."
7. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"... narrowest doable. fundamental branch — the northern of the two — it joins what
is evidently the main line of the Proto- nilus — also the northern one ..."
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