"Second best" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a pretence of indignation, that makes her charming face a perfect picture. "Teaching him to regard us as second best! I like that." ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... Dinwiddie went on, "there are reported two engagements in which our troops came off second best - at Newhern and at Winchester. It is difficult perhaps to know the exact truth - the papers on the two sides hold such different language. But the sixth of April there was a furious battle at Pittsburg Landing, our men headed by Beauregard, Polk and Sidney ...
— Daisy in the Field • Elizabeth Wetherell
... ahead. And he is the second best scholar in the high school. Nothing could stop him from heading the class if he had the time to devote to his studies, so Professor Zepplin tells me. I like ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... between Melville and his nephew was the latter's second marriage, to which the uncle was at first much opposed. Their correspondence on this subject contains some passages of lively repartee, in which the elder undoubtedly came off second best. 'The chaste father'—so the younger writes—'who reposed in the embraces of Minerva was not to measure others by himself; he was not ashamed to own he was in love; ay, and had he not the highest precedents for the step he ...
— Andrew Melville - Famous Scots Series • William Morison
... is on earth to-day, and no Trade Union will impose a limit to his activities. The world will be his Union. If the work he does best and likes best is not to be found, there is still the work he likes second best. Lacking his proper employment, he will turn to ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
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