bottomest

Updated: May 19, 2025

They sat on big stone arches, and the topmost one was so high that it stuck up over the city walls, which were quite high enough to begin with. And there were citrons like those you chop up in fruit-cake and grapes and roses. The queen could sit in the bottomest garden, or walk up to the toppest one by a lot of stone steps.

Edith Ballinger Price - The Happy Venture

We had confidence in Cypher's sullenness end smouldering ferocity. Deep down in his sunless soul he was either a prince, a fool or an artist. He sat at a worm-eaten desk, covered with files of waiters' checks so old that I was sure the bottomest one was for clams that Hendrik Hudson had eaten and paid for.

O. Henry - The Four Million

While they were tying the rope around Jack Gallagher's neck his hands already having been tied behind him a perfect stream of oaths was pouring from his lips, and about the last words he uttered were: "I hope to meet you all in the bottomest pits of hell." These words were uttered not more than a minute before the box was kicked from under him.

William F. Drannan - Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains : An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West