The country beyond the knoll was perfectly flat, and for over five hundred yards was bare of even the smallest bush.
He had been so tense that he had not realized how precarious his position was, the smallest noise being sure to alarm the occupants of the room.
FOOT, the smallest metrical unit of rhythm, composed of a stressed element and one or more unstressed elements (or a pause), 49 ff.
Every hour that he had spent with Paula, every caress he had allowed her to bestow upon him, was brought up before him by his conscience, which did not spare him the smallest particular.
The first four years of my life blend together in my memory like one long summer day, without the smallest cloud in the blue skies above it.
His heart beats fast; he is ready to be grateful for the smallestproof of affection, so strong is the yearning within him for a little human sympathy.
Each is separated by a curved line into two unequal portions; the smallest of which is contiguous to the convex belly, and the largest to the concave back of the animal.
The prince's servants took this opportunity to tell him, it was with the greatest difficulty they had prevailed on their master to take the smallest refreshment, and that for some time he had taken nothing.
I have not the smallest piece left of all the sums I have received from you for your expenses; the other funds you assigned me are all exhausted.
He never dropped thesmallest expression of impatience; but when he had occasion to speak to the people about him, always did it with affection and tenderness.
The history of this kingdom, the smallest in the Heptarchy, is still more imperfect than that of Essex.
And yet -- and yet -- Wherever there is the smallest loophole, doubt creeps in and gnaws and gnaws and never leaves a poor wretch in peace.
The largest albatross we got measured twelve feet between the tips of its wings, and the smallest bird was of a land species, not much bigger than a humming-bird.
In the radiantly clear air we could see the smallest details with our excellent prismatic glasses, and make our calculations with great confidence.
The departure took place without much ceremony, and with the smallest possible expenditure of words.
Their march was by no means free from danger, and does great honour to those who undertook it, not merely without raising the smallest objection, but with the greatest keenness.
It caused Wareham not the smallest astonishment to recognise in one of them Anne Dalrymple.
I had not the smallest intention of being mixed up with one of Anne's complicated affairs," cried Mrs Martyn.
If one could do the smallest good to the poor fellow, it would be quite a different matter.
To return, therefore, to my first thought, I could not but look upon myself with secret horror, as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had so great a work under his care and superintendency.
Man falls upon every thing that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry, or a mushroom can escape him.
I have, I verily believe, the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being literary.
I believe you could read Francatelli right through from beginning to end without being moved in the smallest degree.
These reeds grow in immense thickets on the banks of the Mississippi; but we only cut the smallest for pipe-stems.
One afternoon, in the space of two hours and a half, I caught fifteen fish, of which the smallest weighed about ten pounds.
My father, who had had the same fancy, had patted him and called him 'poor fellow' in passing, without eliciting the smallest notice in return.
There cannot be the smallest doubt that the follicular epithelium is derived from the general cells of the germinal epithelium--a point on which my results fully bear out the conclusions of Ludwig and Semper.
Some of the larger of them are not very much smaller than the germinal vesicle of their ovum, while the smallest of them present a striking resemblance to the nucleoli (fig.
In its interior is a cavity with a distinct bounding membrane: the cells of which it is composed vary somewhat in size, being smallest near the point of attachment.
Ian had bought some dozen of his plays, in smallest compass and cleanest type, at a penny a piece, and how they revelled in them the long summer evenings!
It was her part to speak, his to obey, but he knew the danger of the smallest suspicion.
The largest minds have the smallest opinion of themselves; for their knowledge impresses them with humility, by showing them the extent of their ignorance, and the discovery makes them taciturn.
The smallest thing becomes respectable," says Foster, "when regarded as the commencement of what has advanced or is advancing into magnificence.
On taking leave, the captain wished to make a present to the interpreter, but he hastened out of the vessel in alarm, declaring that his acceptance of the smallest trifle would cost him his head.
The others had not the smallest notion of consenting to any kind of inferior treatment or consideration in respect of them.
Contrived, I must say, with a veracity and opulent potency of intellect, flashing clear into the matter, and yet careful of the smallest practical detail.
Cautious Henri never would make the smallest attack on Soltikof, but merely keep observing him;--the end of which, what can the end of it be?
Out of the basket, quite slowly and stealthily, came the head of a snake, a snake well known to the smallest child--known and dreaded.
The smallest child knew that a fight to a finish had begun.
The smallest Sugar-Maples in our streets make a great show as early as the fifth of October, more than any other trees there.
Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
The smallest recesses in the rocks are dim and cavernous; the ferns in the wood appear of tropical size.
The quail is the smallest of the poultry tribe, and is a pretty little bird, something like a partridge, but not so large.
There is also the King Vulture, a native of the same country, called so not from its size, for it is the smallest of the race, but from its elegant plumage.
This picture represents the kestrel, one of the smallest and most beautiful of hawks.
Yet, at the first, I had not the smallest notion of this kind: I neither knew what poetry was, nor felt the desire to be a poet.
But that the crime was other than prospective, he had not the smallest fancy; and this may have been another reason why he took the chances of Stevens's return to Charlemont, and let him off at the moment.
Whose instant touches, slightest pause," teach the approach of the smallest forms of danger, however inoffensive their shapes, however unobtrusive their advance.
He designed, in reality, nothing more than to acquit himself of the duty he had undertaken with the smallest possible exertion.
If tadpoles are reared in jars of different sizes, the growth and size of each will vary with the size of the vessel, the smallest jar growing the smallest tadpole, and the largest jar the largest tadpole.
The stove was as warm (or cold) as every piece of furniture in the room, and the poor patient and the two smallest children had to manage to keep warm by lying on the same bed, with a pile of old clothes and carpets over them.
Yet he is merry as a clown, and always ready for the smallest joke, and quick to take "a point" or to return a repartee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smallest" 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
