Hitherto we have never, in a single instance of our discovery, found the slightest resemblance between mesmerism and metaphysics.
Instead of being merely an honorary and ornamental official, Mrs. Eddy is the only official in the entire body that has the slightest power.
This Sanhedrin can't do anything of the slightest importance, but it can talk.
There is not the slightestsuggestion upon record that Christ set any limit to this charge which He gave His disciples.
Its twice compound leaf is composed of many tiny leaflets which upon the slightest touch close up and apparently wither on their stalk at once.
Hundreds of totally unrelated plants seem to have this habit of moving their tips through a definite cycle during each day and this restlessness does not appear to be of the slightest use to them.
During this second stage the flower may repeatedly be visited, but until this second crop of anthers become useless there is not the slightest risk of the stigmas becoming self-fertilized.
Poets have called this perfume the soul of the flower, and in its almost intangible beauty it might well be so called were it not for the fact that it appears to be of not the slightest use, except as a lure.
The phrase fails to convey the conception of Chaucer, that the knight too much smitten by the charms of May to consider anything else of the slightest importance.
The presence of ladies and ecclesiastics was not the slightest check upon the tongues of the pilgrims, and it is evident that in ordinary social life, there was hardly any limit to the freedom of expression.
From the Walls of the Boom are suspended Instruments of Punishment, such as Scourges, Gags, and Manacles, the which are not spared upon the slightest appearance of Insubordination.
With the slightest shower, down tumbled these plateaus; and the work of building had to begin again.
He was now very ill, and the slightest agitation, even a sentence spoken rather loudly in his presence, would bring on a terrible fit of suffocation.
His health was terribly bad, his eyes had become so weak that he could neither read nor write, and the chronic heart and lung malady was gaining ground so rapidly, that his breathing was affected if he made the slightest movement.
I couldn't make peace with Seaton now, even if I wanted to--and I haven't the slightest intention of trying.
I believe that we have on board every article for which either of us has been able to imagine even the slightest use.
Each of us installed everything in it that he could conceive of ever being of the slightest use, and since our combined knowledge covers a large field, the projector is accordingly quite comprehensive.
He took his station at an immense control board and the warship shot off instantly, with unthinkable velocity, and with not the slightest physical shock.
They saw with astonishment that the cut surface was perfectly smooth, with not even the slightest roughness or irregularity visible.
She made no attempt to ward off the blows, nor did she give the slightest sign that she saw my actions.
There was no evidence whatever of the slightest tendency to insanity, but there was a condition present which would surely terminate in the loss of her reason if not quickly removed.
The slightest impression made upon the skin, or any other organ of sense, is converted into a sensation out of all proportion to the exciting cause.
When I first saw her she was nervous and irritable, her hands trembled violently upon the slightest exertion of their muscles, her eyes were bloodshot, the pupils contracted, and the lids opened to the widest possible extent.
He suddenly, perhaps, brings back his mind to the subject of his book, and then he finds that he has perused several pages without having received the slightest idea of their contents.
There was no security against the lawlessness of the soldiery, who availed themselves (on both sides) of the slightest pretext for entering private houses, and plundering and menacing the inhabitants.
There is not the slightest doubt that the complaints made of obscene language and manners were well founded.
The invalid, without the slightest suspicion, conducted them thither, and they entered the apartment in which the curiosities were arranged on shelves nailed against the wall.
Said she: "I never before knew you to take theslightest interest in a child.
She had good teeth, an exquisite smile, the gentle good humor of those who, comfortable themselves, would not have the slightest objection to all others being equally so.
So there's not the slightest reason for pretending.
No woman, in all his life, had ever failed to respond to his slightest advance.
In Spain, men and women of all ages wear all sorts of colours, and dance if they like, even when more than sixty years old, without exciting the slightestridicule or astonishment.
When in the arbour you were not allowed to stir, or to make the slightest remarks, or to wear attractive colours; and everybody stood up in silence.
I expect a severe reproof from you, and pray do not send me any money, nor grant me the slightest [favour?
The whole ceremony was performed with the greatest decorum, and in the retiring and coming up of the different sets there was very little noise, and not the slightest confusion.
I never feel the very slightestdesire for the old life.
I am ashamed to say that I can offer not the slightest excuse; my conduct on this occasion has been very bad.
I returned to the village, with Mr. Kerr and Mr. Dudley and slept ashore, thinking it right to restore mutual confidence at once; and there was not the slightest risk in doing so.
A property can be possessed by an aggregation of atoms which no atom possesses in the slightest degree.
Wherefore, properties can be possessed by an aggregate or assemblage of particles which in the particles themselves did not in the slightest degree exist.
Just as a congenital dislocation of the hipbone suggests the name of Doctor Lorenz, so the slightest dislocation of the cloak and suit business immediately calls for Henry D.
He ain't got the slightest idee what I am paying for the car and he says it is well worth twenty-five hundred dollars.
I heard him in the passage at two o'clock this morning; I'm getting into such a state of nerves that the slightest sound awakens me.
I haven't theslightest idea who I could leave the money to.
I haven't the slightest notion," said Mr. Briggerland in surprise.
He had an inexhaustible store of anecdotes and reminiscences, none of which was in the slightest degree offensive.
Jemmy Fox indeed had cherished a small slip of that, when Gilham stood by him in his first distress; but unhappily the slightest change of human weather is inevitably fatal to our very miffy plant.
There is not theslightest danger now, but constant attention is needful, in case of sudden revival.
Equally, I must get over the slightest consciousness of being superior to any of the worshipers in this church.
I must positively lose the slightest consciousness of being superior to Queenie in any way whatsoever.
The annoying thing is, you know, that I've not the slightest desire to die.
The young man no longer listened to the workman; his eyes were turned toward the castle, whose slightest details he studied, as if he hoped that in the end the stone would turn into glass and let him see the interior.
If I ever have the slightest difficulty with this Milo de Crotona, he may be sure I shall not choose pugilism as my mode of discussion.
Madame de Bergenheim seemed to pay very little attention to the words addressed her; her uneasy glances wandered in every direction, into the depths of the bushes and the slightest undulations of the ground.
But to reply to your questions, I will say that you may rest assured that none of these gentlemen, nor any of those whom you might name, has the slightest effect upon my state of mind.
With eyes fixed upon the last number of La Mode, she seemed to study the slightest lines of the sketch that had been made thereon, as if she hoped to find a solution to the mystery.
Indeed, those at the royal headquarters seemed to think of nothing else than to strike MacMahon, for, feeling pretty confident that Metz could not be relieved, they manifested not the slightest anxiety on that score.
General von Moltke was, as usual, quiet and reserved, betraying not the slightest consciousness of his great ability, nor the least indication of pride on account of his mighty work.
I shall write to your grandmother occasionally to let her know that you are well; but, as my daughter, you will be in such an entirely different sphere, that the slightest intimacy would be unwise.
And, with Mr. Darol to hold it, there wouldn't be the slightest risk.
She failed to find a paper of any description and there was not the slightest trace of writing on the margins or fly leaves.
They went about it in businesslike fashion, trying not to show that they felt the slightest uneasiness.
I have not the slightest love for him, although he is a very well-favored young man.
I am the son of a most respectable physician of Florence; indeed, my father had amassed some wealth; he desired to make me a dottore like himself, but I had not the slightest calling for the medical profession.
Moreover, as the old soldier had not the slightest doubt of his child's virtue, he did not understand why he must be incessantly on his guard, as with a prisoner who is always trying to escape.
You will not be sorry, reader, to know where that square was situated, for you would seek in vain for the slightest trace of it to-day.
Bathilde was shy and timid; she trembled at the slightest sharp word, and her gentle and affectionate nature was more inclined to melancholy than to gayety.
They walked on for some time, the Gascon making his rusty spurs and Roland's scabbard ring on the stones; Miretta thinking of Giovanni and glancing all about at the slightest sound.
On the contrary, the lovely girl's cheeks had a rosy tinge; and at the slightest word of reproof that was addressed to her, they at once became a most brilliant carmine.
The Italian did not show the slightest excitement, but simply shook his head, murmuring: "Oh!
As to the last-named sentiment, we have never known an instance of it which resisted the slightest test of its strength, when that test was applied with skill!
If I say, my Lord, that I never perused a stronger case, I will also say that I never heard of one so easy of management The individual in whose favor these proofs exist has not the slightestknowledge of them.
It wouldn't be of theslightest service, I assure you.
German, in English, of which there was the very slightest trace of a foreign accent.
Why, Davis did n't even know the names of those men whose slightest words are verdicts upon character.
It was something so new for Hankes to see Dunn manifest any the slightest emotion on the score of the press, whether its comments took the shape of praise or blame, that he actually stared at him with a sort of incredulous astonishment.
Dunn, bowing low, but without the slightest trace of irritation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slightest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: few; first; least; lowest; minimal; minimum
