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That means the kindest, humanest, official treatment for truly orphaned fawns is to ...
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2009
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Suddenly she flashed out the humanest of smiles, her blue-gray eyes crinkling with cheery friendship.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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I was so distinctly made aware of the presence of something kindred to me, even in scenes which we are accustomed to call wild and dreary, and also that the nearest of blood to me and humanest was not a person nor a villager, that I thought no place could ever be strange to me again.
Walden 2004
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Cavalry with the sun striking the helmets; infantry with their scarlet overcoats too large; aviators with their boxed machines, the stormy petrels of modern war; and the dogs, veritably the dogs of war, going on the humanest mission of all, to search for the wounded in the woods of battle.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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Mr. Alcott betrays in every line the kindest, sanest and humanest spirit; and we wish he could feel how grateful some of us are for his example of a thinker who can keep quiet, and a writer who can show the power of reticence.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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Suddenly she flashed out the humanest of smiles, her blue-gray eyes crinkling with cheery friendship.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The great city, so made for peace and art and all humanest graces, seemed to lie by her river-side like a princess guarded by the watchful giant of the Eiffel Tower.
Fighting France 1915
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The humanest of employers cannot escape the limitations of his class.
5. SPEECH AT THE THIRTIETH SESSION OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, BOMBAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915(1) 1915
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Suddenly she flashed out the humanest of smiles, her blue-gray eyes crinkling with cheery friendship.
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Patientest observation, exactest mathematics, shrewdest discrimination, humanest feeling, flourished in him on the largest scale, with no apparent detriment to one another.
The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910
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