Peter and the Duchessa were not altogether to be blamed, I hope, if they exchanged the merest hint of a smile.
It cost millions of dollars, but it was the merest trifle to what a cholera epidemic would have meant to New York in loss of commercial prestige, let alone human lives.
To watch the picture come out upon the plate that was blank before, and that saw with me for perhaps the merest fraction of a second, maybe months before, the thing it has never forgotten, is a new miracle every time.
Six years seemed all at once the merest breath of time to have waited for it.
With a fresh inroad of dismay Helen thought he must be going mad, for this was the merest trick of his imagination.
I am the merest beginner and dabbler in doing right myself, and have more need to ask you to teach me than to set up for teaching you.
When he disclosed to Helen his evil success in the coalpit, it was but the merest film of a hope it destroyed, for she KNEW that her brother was guilty.
I do not imagine that you have more than the merest glimmer of the nature of that concerning which you, for the very reason that you know not what it is, most rationally doubt.
The ball had just grazed his scalp, and the merest fraction of an inch lower would have killed him.
By a miracle her life was saved, for the merest fraction of an inch lay between her and death.
By themerest chance he had secured the only hold by which he could hope to stick to the giant's back.
Anna had come to love this open-minded lad who had been forced upon them by such an odd train of circumstances; her threats concerning Willy Forrest were the merest bravado.
Zaniloff permitted the merest suspicion of a smile to lurk about the corners of a sensual mouth.
What I have in mind may be the merest coincidence, probably is.
This fanciful symbolism might of course be the merest coincidence; but Hayden could not so view it.
I happened on it by the merest chance, followed it, and discovered that the mine lay behind this mountain cascade.
There was the vaguest something in her smiling gaze, the merest flicker of an eyelash, which convicted him of impertinence.
But that, he was forced to admit, might be the merest coincidence.
Many a one has toiled all his life and taken at last gratefully the merest fraction of all that had thrust itself upon this insatiable thankless young man.
Wensleydale tells me the true impetus to bolt was the merest trifle.
And then, another time they pounded it, and, it may be by merest accident, it fell into the water boiling over the fire for their midday meal.
And to eat with them, prepare a crisp lettuce salad, to which the merest suspicion of tarragon leaves, well chopped, has been added.
That is how people come upon the best things that life has in store for them--by the merest fluke," said she, and she made a movement as if she understood that they were to walk together to The Weir.
She had found it first of all in some of those idle verses that he now copied out for her from time to time; and she had asked him how he had dared to address her in that way, while as yet they were but the merest acquaintances.
Just as likely as not the merest coincidence--some trifle that got hold of her brain when she first became delirious,' the young Doctor said.
Our interest in public events is mostly the merest philistinism.
This, too, is a charge which the merest acquaintance with his life and work must of necessity refute: it is too simple a slander to be seriously discussed.
But this, compared to the grave certainty of the rest, was merest fantasy that did not hold his attention.
He drew into his shell a little, giving the merest sketch of what had happened.
In doing this, carefully and sufficiently, the quantity of the edible portion of the potato lost would be the merest trifle.
The people became alarmed, and went to his cabin, where they found him quite dead, and themerest skeleton.
They depict the danger escaped, and the Virgin opportunely appearing in the clouds to interpose and save, and are very singular specimens of art, drawn by the merest tyros—or rather babes—in art.
Judging from what I have seen, I should say it was unlikely that the fishermen earn more than the merest pittance (a few pence a day) by their calling, in pursuing which they dress in their worst clothes; and it is well they do so.
It was long ago that he and his brother had made acquaintance with crime: that was the merest slip; it was his only error.
The clove of garlic, always recalcitrant under clumsy handling, refuses to impart the merest hint of its wild tang, but the visible and tangible world reeks with it.
It may be themerest conjecture on your part, and her father's.
In the district school he was taught the merest rudiments of an English education.
The merest theorist needs some range of reality for the framework of his theories, and the man of broad principles must have facts to generalize.
There was not one there, from the old and war-worn veteran of the ranks to the merest boy, with whom I would not gladly have exchanged fortunes.
What was he that he should count himself at all valuable in her sight, even as the merest friend?
The merest breath of pity even stole over him for the Sabathier who after all had dared and had needed, perhaps, nothing like so arrogant and merciless a coup de grace to realise that he had so ignominiously failed.
And quite by the merest chance I glanced down, in passing, at a book he had apparently been reading, a book which he seemed very anxious to conceal with his hand.
Only the merest flicker of the folded eyelids over the greenish eyes of her visitor answered the challenge.
She seemed to think intensely for the merest fraction of a moment, and turned.
In looking back to the prognostications of the wisest statesmen, it will be observed that they were as little able to foresee what was to come a generation or two after their death, as the merest dolt amongst their contemporaries.
There was nothing here that the merest formalist might not have written .
Sometimes from the incessant hearing of the scenes, they seemed to him to lack all significance and dramatic force, and be, as their despairing author had openly avowed them, the merest twaddle.
When we advanced they fell back, when we fell back they advanced, until the merest tyro in the art of war could see that a frontal attack, unless made in almost hopeless positions, was impossible.
By the merest chance, Mark Redisham heard the question asked.
Otherwise--if I thought there was the merest chance of your doing this horrible thing--I should ask you to put me ashore on the nearest land, or I should pray that we ourselves should be sent to the bottom of the sea.
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