They had merely waited that scintilla of ocular confirmation of a known danger.
In these churches there were no fire altars; but the small scintillaof sacred fire preserved in them, was kept only in a lamp.
In the whole of his record, so far as we have at present reviewed it, there is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that Henry’s Vicar-General ever cared a straw about any properly religious question at all.
The very verses about "the humming gnat or the scintilla of a beam of the sun" which I wrote down from the mouth of old John Cunningham in the Co.
As much as the humming gnat Or a scintilla of the beam of the sun, Unknown to the great powerful king Shall not pass in beneath my shield.
There was not, of course, the faintest scintilla of evidence to establish anything of the sort.
And, as long as I'm in the business as a professional detective, I don't propose to disregard onescintilla of evidence, one smallest clue.
The lame man lingered on the porch, considering Braceway's confident assertion that he did not "propose to disregard one scintillaof evidence, one smallest clue.
Scintilla also stood amazed, and covered Fortunata all trembling as she was, in her bosom; the boy also put a cold pitcher to her cheek, on which she leaned and made a lamentable wailing and blubbing.
Weeping Scintilla said the same, called him Caius, and by his own good nature, besought him to be pacified.
Scintilla also cried out through her tears, calling him "Gaius," and entreating him by his guardian angel to be mollified.
Scintilla was frightened, too, and shielded the shuddering woman with her garment.
Oh yes, my wife has just reminded me, there was a haunch of bear-meat as a side dish, Scintilla ate some of it without knowing what it was, and she nearly puked up her guts when she found out.
Neither is there in that the scintilla of common sense.
Is there the slightest scintilla of testimony to show that Mr. Vaile came into this business through any improper motive?
And there is not the slightest scintilla of evidence against him, not the slightest.
There is not the slightest scintilla of a foundation in fact for any one of the three statements.
But there was hardly a scintilla of adverse comment upon the mine owners' lawlessness in the organs of capitalist opinion, while they poured forth torrents of righteous indignation at the lawlessness of the miners.
At such a crisis as the conflagration of the universe for the sin of man, the hope of the New Testament looks for the creation of a new heaven and a new earth, but there is no scintilla of such a hope in this prediction.
So quick an imagination as Hezekiah's could not have failed to take advantage of the slightest scintilla of glory that pierced the cloud.
Nothing, as we have seen, is promised to the dying Hezekiah of a future life; no scintilla of the light of eternity sparkles either in Isaiah's promise or in Hezekiah's prayer.
This seems to me to have not a scintilla of justice about it.
If Scintilla had no liking for the best sort of nonconformity, she was without any troublesome bias towards Episcopacy, Anglicanism, and early sacraments, and was quite contented not to go to church.
If his pictures and statues are well chosen it is generally thought that Scintilla told him what to buy; and yet Scintilla in other connections is spoken of as having only a superficial and often questionable taste.
There have been publications and books written, the contents of which have been absurd and without a scintilla of foundation of fact.
There is not a scintilla of truth to most of the things he has written in these articles and in his book which I have had a chance to scan but haven't actually reviewed yet.
In truth, sir, there is not a scintilla of the spirit, nor a single word or letter of the constitution, that loses its power and sanction upon our conduct in legislating in this particular.
I would not, Mr. President, give up a scintilla of that portion of the responsibility which the crisis imposes on me.
Ex scintilla incendium=--From a spark a conflagration.
Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium=--A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.
This official table affords no scintilla of a suggestion that nationalization was succeeding any better than the anarcho-Syndicalist management which preceded it.
Scintilla had never felt a spur before in her life.
Then one afternoon she mountedScintilla and rode into Enterprise for the mail.
Scintilla raised her head and began to step gingerly toward the man.
But Moultrie has lent me Scintilla until he can find another good horse for me.
In her stall that night, Scintilla knew that there was a sharp-toothed animal which had bitten her twice in one short ride.
Moultrie, sitting at parade rest on Scintilla and watching Carolina catch her breath almost with a sob, said to himself: "She feels just as that horse acts.
She dismounted hurriedly, fastened Scintilla to the fence, and ran up the steps.
As she was bending down, Scintillajerked her head, and the bridle slipped from Carolina's arm.
There is not a scintilla of doubt in my mind," he told her gently, "that a trained dog would be of immeasurable benefit to you.
That Comrade Apodaca will be exonerated fully of the charge of murder, I myself can entertain noscintilla of doubt.
