The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Gamecock ( Tar Heel-Terka Hanover ) is another promising colt, and his best time is 2:32.2.

His best time is 2:33.2.

Mrs. Freight ( Knight Dream-Miss Reed ) shows promise and does it in good form, and her best time is about 2:35.

Her best time to date is about 2:30.

But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??

This way of escape is theoretically possible, but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not, so far as I know, been urged by positivists, it is perhaps best not to spend time over it.

) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.

Probably a lawyer once said it best for all time in the Supreme Court of the United States.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

Asteroids was a hit in the United States and became Atari's best selling game of all time.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

In 2009, IGN chose the 7800 to be their 17th best video game console of all time.

Andropov said that " It is time they stopped ... search for the best ways of unleashing nuclear war ...

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

At the same time, the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17 % per year.

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

The infantry of the Low Countries, who were at this time almost the best in existence, drove back the French.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.