He could indeed go across and visit it, but he had no control, no more than the veriest stranger that strolled along the road.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Furthermore, like the veriest underling, instead of the autocrat he really was, he had been ordered-ordered-to announce the lady's arrival to Mr. James Carbhoy, and forthwith conduct her to that holy of holies, which no other female, except the cleaner, had ever been permitted to enter.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum