Faintest

Examples

• In not one, however, showed the faintest sign of light. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dismounting, I laid Powell upon the ground, but the most painstaking examination failed to reveal the faintest spark of life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They then made out the faintest pallor of his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And to this hour I have not the faintest notion what he meant, or what joke he thought I had made. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Of the meaning and use of the articles and conjunctions, verbs and adverbs and pronouns he had but the faintest conception. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There was just the faintest tinge of bitterness in his voice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• As the days passed, and moon after moon went by without bringing even the faintest rumour of you, I resigned myself to my fate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The faintest shadow of an object full of form and colour is such a picture of it as he was of the man from Shropshire whom we had spoken with before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Of what was said between us on the beach, I have not the faintest recollection. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Not the faintest rustle broke the profound tranquillity of the solemn scene. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When she repeated Fred's news to Lydgate, he said, Take care you don't drop the faintest hint to Ladislaw, Rosy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not the faintest suggestion of a ripple marred its shining surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The nods between Rawdon and Dobbin were of the very faintest specimens of politeness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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