Nothing less, quoth Pantagruel, do I believe than that it is a mere abusing of our understandings to give credit to the words of those who say that there is any such thing as a natural language.
Panurge somewhat vexed Friar John, and put him in the pouts; for he took him at his word while he dreamed of nothing less.
But if all love, which we pretend to have one to another, were tried by this one text, how much of that that we call so, would be found to be nothing less?
On the 16th of May, Mr. Roebuck brought forward a proposition for the reform of the Canadian constitution, which was to consist in nothing less than in making both branches of the colonial legislature elective.
The treaty aimed at nothing less than a league of all the European states against France, and the re-establishment of all the relations that existed before the war of the revolution.
It was, indeed, nothing less than a misfortune that Strauss and Bauer appeared within so short a time of one another.
Nothing less than a blissful presentiment of eternity seems to have preceded or impressed itself on the dying features, breaking through the shackles of time before its full course was ended.
It seems to be nothing less than a characteristic property of human nature, and to have its foundation in the dissension subsisting between reason and fancy, which has so firmly established itself in the mind of man.
It aims at nothing less than to reduce mankind to the condition of the savage, and is not ashamed to acknowledge that such is its aim.
They could do nothing less, accordingly, than enact their now famous law of guarantees, which assured complete protection to the Pope and the institutions over which he presided.
This is nothing less than to allow in Lincoln's deeds and words the sweep and insight of a philosopher.
That single paragraph is nothing lessthan a solid section of a finished moral philosophy.
The very act of your coming here in this excited state, when you should be going to bed, and saying what you do say, must be nothing less than a degree of madness.
The boy says it is the blighting of his whole future life; and I feel that it is nothing less.
He is what he wants to be, a man--in the striking expression which he chose as a title for one of his short stories, nothing less than a whole man.
The tragic Portuguese Jew of Amsterdam wrote that the free man thinks of nothing less than of death; but this free man is a dead man, free from the impulse of life, for want of love, the slave of his liberty.
Aron was a blessing and a benefactor, nothing less, with his store and his new road.
She is a thieving baggage, nothing less, and she may know it!
After this opening followed the costly feasting; and then, nothing less than a hunt with a pack of hounds in their hall!
It isnothing less than a most solemn obligation contracted with the Pope and her brother the King of France, to educate her children as Catholics, and only to choose Catholics to attend them.
For my own part, I account it nothing less than a Vision granted unto me by mercy and special grace of Heaven.
It would be, I remembered, by consenting to the Captain's treachery towards his employers, nothing less, that I could escape this lot.
Listen, we need a force that would move heaven and earth--nothing less.
And yet it was despair--nothing less--at the thought of having to live with Haldin for an indefinite number of days in mortal alarm at every sound.
The profound, subterranean note of this "nothing less" made one shudder, almost, like the deep muttering of wind in the pipes of an organ.
Nothing less than a pacific and irresistible transformation is announced.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing less" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
