The slighter the inner differences in an ethnic stock, whether in culture, language or physical traits, the smaller was their center of distribution and the more rapid their dispersal.
It has got beyond the point of forming species, and is restricted to the slighter variations of races.
The well known but little discussed climatic limitation of the blond race applies particularly to the dolicho-blond, and only in a pronouncedly slighter degree to the other blond types.
In some slighter cases a tardy delivery may take place without puncture, the liquid bulging forward into the chest as the abdomen is compressed in the pelvic passages.
The slighter forms may be painted daily with tincture of iodin, or an ointment of biniodid of mercury (1 dram) and lard (2 ounces) may be rubbed on the affected joints daily until they are blistered.
The other is of slighter frame, and on his clean-shaven face the prolonged holiday in the open is but now beginning to impress the stamp of returning health and vigor.
When he allowed himself to think about it he realized that these dizzyings were growing commoner, and were set awhirl by slighter exciting causes.
Beside the evidence of the Vulgari Eloquio, there are frequent and broad traces in the Commedia of the Roman de la Rose, slighter ones of the Chevalier de la Charette, Guillaume d'Orange, and a direct imitation of Bernard de Ventadour.
The boy's fever still raged, with slighter and slighter intervals.
With a snarl like a wild beast, he closed again with his slighter antagonist and, as the two men swayed hither and thither, Benton became dimly conscious of Gallagher's form and voice added to the melee.
They saw the slighter shape dismount and, presently the "tang" of a tightly stretched barbed-wire gate being released and drawn aside sounded sharply in the stillness.
To speak of regret for a fault of our own marks it as slighter than one regarding which we should express penitence.
Coax is a slighter word than persuade, seeking the same end by shallower methods, largely by appeal to personal feeling, with or without success; as, a child coaxes a parent to buy him a toy.
It is wearisome, to a stirring active body: but few have slighter reasons for complaint than I had.
He'd better have kept his distance: my master quickly sprang erect, and struck him full on the throat a blow that would have levelled a slighter man.
He followed his slighter companion, who led the way, despite the incumbrance of the box he carried.
Slighter consideration of place scheme; where final scenes shall be laid, etc.
Baudelaire's infinitely slighter volume of genius apart, he was a sort of Hawthorne reversed.
In shorter and slighter narrative poems Provencal is still less fruitful, though Raimon Vidal, Arnaut de Zurcasses, and one or two other writers have left work of this kind.
Had Mlle Marthe warned her far more emphatically, it would have made a slighter impression; but when Ange, who saw good in all, was aware of impending trouble, it seemed to Aline that the prospect was threatening indeed.
After the influence of heat and of great centres, comes that of the slighter pressure of the air in hilly but not too mountainous regions.
The retrograde metamorphosis of the intellectual faculties passes through slighter gradations in the barbarian than in the civilized man.
The Goats, genus Capra, differ from the Sheep in their slighter build and in the fact that the horns are not spirally curved, but arched over the back.
It has no mane like Viverra and is of slighter build.
They spoil the judgment and the senses; and if the more serious produce a sensible change, I do not doubt that slighter ills produce a proportionate impression.
Such, in earlier times, had done honour to Rolfe, who had mated with a maiden of darker skin, less beauty, and far slighter accomplishments than Maumee.
There was but little redness among the scathed pines--the smoke appeared slighter than we had yet observed it.
These eight portraits are grouped in the foreground of this 'conversation' piece, the background being filled with slighter but always live figures.
The differences of brain structure and psychic faculty which separate man from the anthropoid ape are slighter than the corresponding interval between the anthropoid apes and the lower primates (the earliest simiae and prosimiae).
The commas show a still slighter separation, being used to divide the lesser groups of words.
The semicolon is therefore used to show a slighter separation between the thoughts than would be indicated by the use of the period.
I cried, and my blood burned with the intense rage which a much slighter cause would have kindled from the natural fierceness of my temper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slighter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
