longest-headed

I had to think ahead and think coolly; for my safety depended on upsetting the plans of one of the longest-headed men who ever lived.

The Woman in Black 1915

I was thus become the youngest captain, also the biggest and strongest; and, as will soon appear, by far the longest-headed.

The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Homer Eon Flint 1908

In the morning when thou goest home, burn thy library, burn Milton and Bastwick, and Withers, and the rest of the rogues, forswear such rascally company forever, and rat me! if I will not maintain that thou art the honestest, as well as the longest-headed, man in the colony.

Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

"Dick is the longest-headed fellow in our school."

The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving 1895

The largest longest-headed of schemes ask occasionally for something substantial and immediate.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The largest longest-headed of schemes ask occasionally for something substantial and immediate.

Evan Harrington — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

The largest longest-headed of schemes ask occasionally for something substantial and immediate.

Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868

Age, the longest-headed man in Arabia, and against Yazíd, who, like Italy of the present day, flourished and prospered by the artificial game which the far-seeing politician, his father, had bequeathed to his house -- the Ommiade.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

'What a demd rum fellow you are, Nickleby,' said the gentleman, 'the demdest, longest-headed, queerest-tempered old coiner of gold and silver ever was -- demmit.'

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

I saw, with half an e'e, that Peter was trying to put me to my mettle, and I devoutly wished that I had had James Batter at my elbow to have given him play for his money -- James being the longest-headed man that ever drove a shuttle between warp and woof; but most fortunately, just as

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824