With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest andmost miserable parish in the East End of London.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are themost melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.[…]”
Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was amost fortunate, thing.
2013 August 3, “Boundary Problems”, inThe Economist[2], volume408, number8847:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
Russian:наи-(ru)(nai-)(prefix before comparative forms),са́мый(ru)(sámyj)(before adjectives in the normal form),наибо́лее(ru)(naibóleje)(before adjectives in the normal form),-е́йший(-éjšij),-а́йший(-ájšij)(suffixes follow an adjective form)
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At half-past nine on this Saturday evening the parlor of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, containedmost of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, ofhabitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, tookmost of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
2001, George Barna,Real Teens: A Contemporary Snapshot of Youth Culture,→ISBN, page15:
Along with their massive size will come other “mosts”: they will likely be the longest living, the best educated, the wealthiest and the most wired/ wireless.
2002, John Gregory Selby,Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates,→ISBN, page xvii:
Virginia had a number of "mosts” that made it appealing, if not representative of all Confederate states: the most citizens among the Southern states; the most slaves; the most men under arms; the most famous Southern generals; the most fighting within its borders; the most divided by the war (what other Southern state lost a quarter of its territory and saw a new state created out of that former territory?); and the most damaged by the war.
The record of Elvis' achievement is truly remarkable; his list of “firsts” and “mosts” is probably without parallel in music and entertainment history.
This use of the word must precede a noun phrase and is restricted to positive polarity. One would not saymost nobody understands this orI most fell down climbing up the stairs.
It can be suffixed from its (otherwise folksy) variantmostan:mostantól(“from now on”),mostanra(“by now”),mostanig(“until now”), or the latter more commonly formed with-a-,mostanáig(“until now”):
most inBárczi, Géza andLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN
“most”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
