Sentence examples for most excellent thing from inspiring English sources

'Reader, he'd married her!' He had done this most excellent thing and married Miss Pole.

Yet the most excellent thing about it was this: he was not lacking in solidity, a solidity endowed with something celebratory, nor in precision, a precision that expressed something pleasing.

Secondly, the principle of symmetry introduced into matter constitutes "the most excellent thing in the whole corporeal world, the matrix of the animate faculties, and the chain linking the corporeal and spiritual world" (APO, Engl. trans., p. 19).

Wherever we go, he writes, "two most excellent things will accompany us, namely, a common Nature and our own especial virtue".

Horner's primary mistress Lady Fidget, spokeswoman for "the virtuous gang" of secretly sex-hungry town wives, was played by the dynamic Elizabeth Knepp, who Samuel Pepys declared "the most excellent, mad-humoured thing, and sings the noblest I've ever heard", talents that the famous drinking scene in Horner's lodging seems designed to do justice to.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, because this is what motivates people to improve, find better and more efficient ways of doing things, and be the most excellent they can be.

"It is strange if someone thinks that politics or practical wisdom is the most excellent kind of knowledge, unless man is the best thing in the cosmos" (1141a20 22).

That is most excellent smuggling.

He was the most excellent company.

I returned with a most excellent Borsalino.

Best Beloveds, actors are an excellent thing.