The merest stranger cannot but experience a sense of disgust at the contrast.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Popular misery and decadence, he would say, is always very largely the result of bad laws and other bad civil conditions, as we see it plainly to have been in the case of the Irish cottiers, the Scotch crofters, and the rural labourers of England, and when the community has really inflicted the injury, the community is bound in the merest justice to repair it.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Grey eyes lifted her eyebrows the merest fraction.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford