The fall of Constantinople in 1453 into the hands of the Ottoman Turks, had at least the effect of frightening and almost of rousing Western Christendom at large.
To Marco Polo and men like him we owe the beginnings of the art and science of discovery among the learned; to the Portuguese is due at least the credit of making it a thing of national interest, and of freeing it from a false philosophy.
His countenance, then, explained at least the motives of his treachery,--he loves you himself!
Her desire to think well of herself had at least the element of humility that it always needed to be supported by proof.
As judges cannot be dispensed with, at least the State is to select them, and always to hold them under its control; so that, between the government and private individuals, they place the effigy of justice rather than justice itself.
This association may be more or less defined, more or less restricted, more or less numerous; but the fact that the newspaper keeps alive, is a proof that at least the germ of such an association exists in the minds of its readers.
But the national enmity, at least the effects of that enmity, had been suspended by a truce, which continued above fourscore years.
These seasonable aids, the use and reputation of which were dexterously managed by the Roman general, revived the courage, or at least the hopes, of the soldiers and people.
What their situation might have been but for the providential supply of birds which they met with, it was impossible to say; to themselves it was too distressing to be contemplated.
They had reason to think, that in rainy weather the run of water which they met with rose above its ordinary level between thirty and forty feet.
There was much popular excitement at his funeral, and his tomb was known and visited until at least the 14th century A.
On the whole, a common origin in the north for at least the arctico-altaic group of alpine plants seems to be the most reasonable hypothesis.
In numeration, indeed, uniformity was not attained till atleast the 2nd century of the Christian era.
At least the parties to this singular union must have agreed to ignore the lamented existence of the Chevalier d'Aunay.
Even the most complaisant women like at least theappearance of a siege.
At least the imagination of spectators invested him with a golden hue, and regarded him through the roseate atmosphere that surrounds a many-millioned man.
But Miss McDonald understood human nature better than that, at least the nature of Mrs. Mavick.
It did not seem so to the boy this summer day, not at least the world he knew.
Well, it came out somehow--at least the most of it.
Proudie began his reign, and changes have already been effected in the diocese which show at least the energy of an active mind.
Tickets were sent to all the diocesan clergy, and also to many other persons of priestly note, of whose absence the bishop, or at least the bishop's wife, felt tolerably confident.
But these generous deliverers were unwilling to release their hostage, till they had obtained from his father the payment, or at least the promise, of their recompense.
The establishment of his family was the motive, or at least the pretence, of the crime of Palæologus; and he was impatient to confirm the succession, by sharing with his eldest son the honors of the purple.
Footnote 5: The Missi of Charlemagne pressed him to declare, that all who rejected the filioque, or at least the doctrine, must be damned.
Footnote 57: The ancients, or at least the Athenians, believed that all the bees in the world had been propagated from Mount Hymettus.
He felt that he had reached the land--or at least the borderland--of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.
He could travel all day without a note-book and at night reproduce the day's budget or at least the picturesqueness of it, without error.
The Great Hesper, by Mr. Frank Barrett, has at least the merit of introducing into fiction an entirely new character.
If his descriptions lack distinction, they have at least the merit of being true, and when he does not interlard his pages with an interminable and intolerable series of foreign words he is pleasant enough.
By holding the world at peace, she had given humankind at least the opportunity to grow.
Forbid me not--Oh, forbid me not at least the experiment!
He was the kind of man who, if something went wrong with the kitchen boiler, felt that the Devil and all his angels had been loosed upon him, as upon the righteous Job, with at least the connivance of Heaven.
It seems to me a treachery to Keats's memory to belittle a woman who was at least the occasion of such a passionate expenditure of genius.
The Villon of Mr. Stacpoole is at least the makings of a man.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "least the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
