Slightest

Examples

• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I took off my silk gown to begin with, because the slightest noise from it on that still night might have betrayed me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was amazing through how many hours at a time she would remain beside him, in a crouching attitude, attentive to his slightest moan. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Left the house early this morning, without the slightest previous communication with me,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have not so much as the slightest predilection left. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Neither of us would have felt the slightest trepidation in going into battle with some one else commanding. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have not the slightest doubt he is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Besides that the thread became so brittle that the slightest shock to the lamp broke it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The servants will know _that_, said Rosamond, with the slightest touch of sarcasm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I will put my arm in the bolt sooner than he should come to the slightest harm. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Poor Julia, all this time, did not receive the slightest compliment or attention from anybody. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• These slight proportional differences, due to the laws of growth and variation, are not of the slightest use or importance to most species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I had not the slightest sympathy with the audience below the stage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The baseball news was all I could read and I did not have the slightest interest in it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I don't wish to get cross, so let's change the subject; and Jo looked quite ready to fling cold water on the slightest provocation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Neither in Italy, Germany, nor England was there the slightest general manifestation of disapproval at this free handling of the sovereign pontiff. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was very hard upon one, who, like myself, had been spoiled and indulged by a man, who was ever a slave to my slightest caprices! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am attending, sir,' replied Miss Wren, without the slightest appearance of so doing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The machine obeyed the slightest motion of the helm; and, the wind blowing steadily, there was no let or obstacle to our course. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The stylus penetrates this film, meeting from it the slightest possible resistance, and traces thereon the message. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We none of us produced the slightest effect on her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The report, in this case, presented no feature of the slightest intereSt. Mr. Luker had gone back to his own house, and had there dismissed his guard. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• With a most supercilious kind of glance, Hum, drawled out Murray, you've not the slightest chance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I drew it up without the slightest difficulty. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She was quicker to perceive the slightest matter here, than in any other case--but one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The kind blue eyes, whose slightest changes of expression I had learnt to interpret so well, looked at me appealingly when we first sat down to table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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