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Definition of Stillest

1. still [adj] - See also: still

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stillest

Literary usage of Stillest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"I am weary, weary to such a point of moral exhaustion, that any anchorage were welcome, even the stillest, coldest, "where the wicked cease from troubling ..."

2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"I am weary, weary to such a point of moral exhaustion, that any anchorage were welcome, even the stillest, coldest, "where the wicked cease from troubling ..."

3. The Bible in Browning: With Particular Reference to The Ring and the Book by Minnie Gresham Machen (1903)
"... Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. — Ps. 89: 9. (See also Matt. 8: 26. ..."

4. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"And, in tho calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king!—Then, happy low, Ho down! Uneasy lies tho head that ..."

5. Exercises in Reading and Recitation by Jonathan Barber (1828)
"... thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, With all appliances and means to boot, And in the calmest and the stillest night, Deny it to a king ? ..."

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