Extreme mobility was aimed at in the column, and neither tents nor comforts of any sort were permitted to officers or men--no light matter in a climate where a tropical day is followed by an arctic night.
To support an army of fifty thousand men under these circumstances, eight hundred miles from a base, is no light matter, and a premature advance which could not be thrust home would be the greatest of misfortunes.
Where every culvert needs its picket and every bridge its company, the guardianship of many hundreds of miles of rail is no light matter.
When she heard his words she laughed till she fell backward and said, "This is a light matter, and I may not gainsay thee therein.
And when the youth saw that she to his beauty did incline he waxt drunken without wine and his life was a light matter to him compared with his love.
If thou would journey to Damascus, I am one who will go with thee; and if my wife will listen to and obey me and accompany me, I will take up my abode there; for it is no light matter to part with thee.
O Anis al- Jalis," cried he, "by Allah it is no light matter for me to be parted from thee for a single hour!
Thus, truth about trivial things is of less importance among finite goods, and consequently a small lie about some unimportant matter, which helps and does not harm the neighbor, is light matter.
He who stole a serious amount but gave back part, retaining only what is light matter, is bound under venial sin to restore the rest.
A change in the object makes venial sin mortal: (a) when that which is light matter objectively is apprehended subjectively as grave matter (e.
Now, my beloved, do you think this a light matter, to be disowned by Jesus Christ?
And this is counted a light matter, but it is not so in scripture.
I beseech you consider it; it is no light matter, for God will by no means clear the guilty, by no means, by no entreaties, no flatteries.
Therewithal the world was straitened upon him and his life was a light matter to him and he sought his father Suleiman Shah's lodging, that he might slay him, but could not win to him.
But it would appear that her death was no light matter to him and he died after her;[FN#40] so it is I who have beaten thee and gotten thy stake.
Quoth he, 'Indeed, my life is a light matter to me and I put my trust in God the Most High, looking to Him for protection.
O Anis al-Jalis," cried he, "by Allah it is no light matter for me to be parted from thee for a single hour!
Quoth he, "Indeed, my life is a light matter to me and I set my trust in Almighty Allah, looking to Him for protection.
But now the world was straitened upon him and his life was a light matter to him and he sought the lodging of his sire Sulayman Shah, that he might slay him also, but could not get admission to him.
But it would appear that her death was no light matter to him and he died after her;[FN#82] so it is who have beaten thee and gotten thy stake.
Let a native American, be suddenly bereft of these privilege, and loaded with the disabilities of an alien, and what to the foreigner would be a light matter, to him, would be the severity of rigor.
Let a native American, be suddenly bereft of these privileges, and loaded with the disabilities of an alien, and what to the foreigner would be a light matter, to him, would be the severity of rigor.
Surely it is no light matter what you are doing with this Book.
This is a light matter; be of good heart, for soon shalt thou come to thy desire, Allah willing; and there is no help but that I let the Queen know of thee, that she may help thee to attain thine aim.
If I give it him, it will be no light matter to me, and if I give it not, he will torment me; but torture is easier to me than the giving up of the cash.
Whereat, in the great gladness of his heart, he counted all his past adversity but a light matter, since he had found his children alive and prosperous.
O, my son," said the friar, "this is a light matter.
No," said Ser Ciappelletto, "say not a light matter; for Sunday is the more to be had in honour because on that day our Lord rose from the dead.
And thinkest thou now by a few words of apology to pass this off as a light matter?
Verily the worthy lady found it no light matter to look kindly on this early and ill-matched betrothal; yet had she not the heart, nor the power, to make any resistance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light matter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
