Everything besides Him is as nothing when brought face to face with the resplendent revelation of but one of His names, with no more than the faintest intimation of His glory—how much less when confronted with His own Self!
He threw back the dark curls that clustered about his forehead, and laid it bare to receive the faintest breath that might promise the return of the wind.
His heart beats no faster, nor does the faintest shadow of reluctance cross his will, when he thinks of his death.
The faintestrustle brings chirping from the bushes, and in the densest darkness the wood pigeons coo.
This went on until the last birds were taken, and there is but the faintest hope that it may yet linger on in the inaccessible North.
The present writer found that he could see most of Heis' faintest stars in the west of Ireland (Co.
This is thefaintest ever recorded for this wonderful star.
Curtis finds that the faintest stars mentioned in Ptolemy's Catalogue are about 5.
Pickering estimates that the total number of stars visible on photographs down to the 16th magnitude (about the faintest visible in the great Lick telescope) will be about 50 millions.
How I got back to Apia I haven't the faintest recollection.
She did not even turn away her head to conceal a bitter curl of the lips, for she flattered herself she was past showing the faintest sign of feeling.
But this expression of his dissatisfaction made upon the stolid guide not the faintest impression.
We shouted at and damned each other, but what we said I haven't the faintest recollection.
How full of griefs am I, how Heaven-abhorred, When of my piteous state no faintest sound Hath reached my home, or any Grecian land!
I would not for anything blot out the faintest star that shines in the horizon of human despair, nor in the sky of human hope; but I will do what I can to get that infinite shadow out of the heart of man.
Upon his face no faintestsuggestion of expression could be discovered by the hungry minds which focussed unanimously upon its almost stern contours.
Then she put the cover on the tube with another faintest click, restored the tube to its drawer with a rather louder click, and finally, with a click still louder, pushed the drawer home.
I hadn't the faintest notion this afternoon she was any worse--not the faintest.
When he returned to Rachel he thought he noticed the faintest pinky flush in her cheeks.
In a matter so obvious, there cannot attach to the compiler of the genealogy the very faintest suspicion of bad faith.
It was the faintest of clues but the thought of it filled Atma's mind in an instant with a pressing desire.
Aunt Rosebody broke off in the faintest of deep breathings, which even by discourtesy would hardly be called a snore, and remarked with drowsy captiousness, "What?
He paused and but for his intentness those keen eyes of his might have seen the faintest quiver of the door opposite him, as if someone behind it wished to hear better.
And he made it fast in the hold of the ship with a shining silver thong, that not the faintest breath might escape.
The conclusion is that the poetical history of Charlemagne has only the faintest relations to the true history.
He had not the faintest notion of the wide-spread influence of Peter Struggles.
Sam, who hadn't the faintest idea of the source of the quotation.
He hadn't thefaintest idea what they were talking about.
How he should see her, where and when, he had not the faintest idea; but he wanted to see her even more than he wanted to see Hurst Dormer.
The faintest flicker of a smile crossed her lips, and then was gone, and he thought that in its place a look of weariness and unhappiness came into the girl's face.
It would all be a sacrifice--under eyes that would miss no faintest shade--to what even the strange frequenters of her ladyship's earlier period used to call the real good of the little unfortunate.
Maisie thought: there settled on her, in the light of his beautiful smiling eyes, the faintest purest coldest conviction that he wasn't telling the truth.
Maisie could scarcely believe her eyes as she saw the good lady, with whom she had associated no faintest shade of any art of provocation, actually, after an upward grimace, give Sir Claude a great giggling insinuating naughty slap.
Have you thefaintest idea that I supposed you were here?
I don't know," she murmured to herself, thinking of the telegram with the faintest misgiving.
There was a new, unseeing hardness in her eyes; in her attitude the faintest hint of cynicism.
Deep, slow, mysterious waves of music thrilled the mind with a sudden apprehension of the gloom unpenetrated by the faintest ray of light.
I really haven't the faintest conception,' returned Stella, with a little smile.
The faintest tremble of a smile was on the girl's lips.
What he saw was a billowing, filmy mass of soft stuff, and out of it there greeted him thefaintest possible scent of lilac sachet powder.
Only the faintestplash of the oars is heard, and voices perhaps imagined.
I saw it all from the very faintest suspicion of the coming dawn all the way through to the final explosion of glory.
How could I think there was the faintest truth in anything he said!
Why should you give our peaceful happy home even the faintest semblance of war, when it can by no possibility come into this calm, quiet, retired nook.
He thought it came from the lake, and he flung open his window and listened, but all was calm and still, the very faintest night air was astir, and not even the leaves moved.
From that day forth she had never heard Calvert's name; and though for hours long she would think and ponder over him, the mention of him was so strictly interdicted, that the very faintest allusion to him was even avoided.
I am better, really," she said in the faintest and most patient voice.
There was one room, however, in that house which was kept sacred from the faintest touch of worldliness.
She wanted to reach London; and yet when she did get there she would not have the faintest idea where to go.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faintest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
