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Example sentences for "still less"

  • Still less did he impair his power in the Senate as Burke did in the Commons by talking too often and too much.

  • Still less was he a statesman of the type of Charles Fox, who preached to the deaf ears of one generation great principles which became accepted truisms in the next.

  • Satan reproving sin is not an edifying sight, but Satan criticising sin is still less agreeable.

  • Still less needs to be said about that of Lazarus.

  • And consider how there lie behind dark and solemn results about which it does not become me to speak, but which it still less becomes me--believing as I do--to suppress.

  • Still less could He have heard the denials in louder tones, and accompanied with execrations, which seemed to have been repeated in the porch without.

  • It only works on our own minds, racking them in vain, but has no effect on the material world, not even on our own bodies, still less on the universe.

  • Nature did not give it to you for nothing, still less to cause you the headache.

  • Still less will I go to Ireland, where, from my deafness and infirmities, I must necessarily make a different figure from that which I once made there.

  • Do not, therefore, suffer any copy to be taken of it, still less to get into newspapers, if any you have.

  • I did not hope you would have written so soon; still less did I imagine a letter from Charleston would reach this on the eleventh day after date.

  • He is incapable of revenge, still less is he capable of imitating the conduct of Mr. Hamilton, by committing secret depredations on his fame and character.

  • Still less did he inquire who hated him or meditated his assassination.

  • There was in the world, as Caesar found it, much of the noble heritage of past centuries and an infinite abundance of pomp and glory, but little spirit, still less taste, and least of all true delight in life.

  • We know not where it is to-day; still less do we know where it may be to-morrow.

  • Still less do I put forth any pretensions of my own.

  • Still less will he be able to record any series of lawless and despotic acts, or any successful usurpation.

  • Now, to rediscover nature in her fresh springs of reality, it is not sufficient to abandon the images and conceptions invented by human initiative; still less is it sufficient to fling ourselves into the torrent of brute sensations.

  • Still less shall I be able to answer here the many questions which arise.

  • Still less is it my duty to try to foresee what Mr Bergson's conclusions will be.

  • Still less do we make of that other French Definition of the Cooking Animal; which, indeed, for rigorous scientific purposes, is as good as useless.

  • We no longer consider ourselves morally bound to denounce and extirpate heretics and witches, still less to observe fasts and sacred days.

  • Still less is there any form of Justice that does not have respect to Utility.

  • The money-lender is still less entitled, for he is an unnatural character; and money is obviously good as a means.

  • No person ventures to interrogate, still less to follow him.

  • This faculty ought to be incessantly occupied in maintaining its independence against the attacks of the senses, but it must not triumph before the end, still less must it succumb in the struggle.

  • An Englishman who, like myself, is ignorant of the Spanish language and people can never hope to understand, still less to expound, their literature.

  • Still less do we wish to hear the vapid inanities which seem proper to that condition poured forth on the stage.

  • If little improvement was to be expected from such great proprietors, still less was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them.

  • We are not actuated by any preference for France over Germany--still less by any preference for Russia over Germany.

  • Still less is there any conception that unless a man has this faith he is not worth thinking about.

  • Lastly, if genius cannot be bought with money, still less can it sell what it produces.

  • And though Wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can it be gotten without it.

  • Still less does he use an adverb from the abstract, like "providentially.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been going; carefully studied; closely similar; force them; said gruffly; still another; still didn; still exists; still farther; still greater; still here; still known; still larger; still later; still laughing; still others; still remain; still remember; still seen; still smaller; still smiling; still standing; still the; still used; still young; white five