Smallest

Examples

• Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• After a moment she spoke once more, but without turning round, without allowing me to catch the smallest glimpse of her face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have not the smallest doubt of the issue. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You have not the smallest chance of moving me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And half a grain of reality, like the smallest portion of some other scarce natural productions, will flavour an enormous quantity of diluent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No incitement to the attention of the sovereign can ever counterbalance the smallest discouragement to that of the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of any body's performance. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Great Range of Mechanisms to Treat the Tenderest Pods and Smallest Seeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the smallest attention. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• When the morning came, the smallest of the boats was missing--and the three Hindoos were next reported to be missing, too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My passions are my masters; my smallest impulse my tyrant. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is most conspicuous when the illuminated part of the disc is at its smallest, as soon after new moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No, I can pronounce his name without the smallest distress. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Will not the guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the profession of some kind of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
• The smallest clue, he said, would have made him master of the case, and what a case it would have been to have got to the bottom of! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Here, too, were found vehicles of a great variety for the comfort and convenience of every family, from the smallest to the largest means. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The court would not discuss that point, nor take it into the smallest consideration for or against you, said Mr. Treslove. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was silent and sensitive, and ready to sigh and languish ponderously (as only fat men CAN sigh and languish) on the smallest provocation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• An atom is the smallest division of anything that we know about now. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is to all our honours, that in all that time we never had among us the smallest misunderstanding. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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