...For it is strange, yet certain, that the zenith of courage and the acme of villainy can alike be bought for the price of a lady’s glove... 
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...The acme of respectability among the Bechuanas is the possession of cattle and a wagon...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Then, if ever, we realize that the time of the bird and thebeast is passing, the acme of evolution for these wonderful beingsis reached, and at most we can preserve only a small fragment ofthem...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...That is the acme of breeding...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...It is the same throughout:the depraved of mankind are dogs, andthe very acme of possible reproach andcontempt is apparently to be found inthe use of this one term...
Major Gambier-Parry 「'Murphy'」
...88); and this line of development may be followed out until it attains its acme in the State-theology of China and the Kami-theology of Japan...
Thomas Henry Huxley 「The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study」
...Hisimpulse is as genuine and spontaneous as if the substance upon which itis exercised were not the acme of the exotic, and already arranged withthe most elaborate conventionality...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...Coming as he did atthe acme of the French Renaissance, when France was borrowing withintelligent selection whatever it considered valuable from Italy, hepleased the dilettanti...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...
The reference is to the Acme and Septimius of Catullus,xliv...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...After four or five had beensearched without result they enteredthe 30-story Acme Theater building...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
..."Hadn't we better notify the police?"asked the building manager, who hadbroken out in a sweat when he heardthe dire disaster which might be instore for the stately Acme building...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
..."Tell the police that the Acme Theaterbuilding may crash at any moment,"he instructed...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...Consequently, it is not to be wondered at that in the "good old days ofthe old-fashioned woman," the acme of hospitality was the giving of wifeor daughter to a visitor for the night...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
... The last degree of injustice, the acme of folly is, when society is so blinded as to inflict punishment on those citizens who have served it usefully...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
...The acme of all wickedness, was to despise that which the priest was desirous should be looked upon as sacred...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Samuel Wilkinson 「The System of Nature, Volume 2」
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