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Example sentences for "tittle"

Lexicographically close words:
tits; titter; tittered; tittering; titters; titular; titulary; tituli; titulis; titulo
  1. He enforced every tittle of respect due the dead man, and in obedience to Matilda's desire had his grave dug in the private burying-place of the de Wicks, close to the grave of the lord he had served so faithfully.

  2. Madame de Wartemberg believ'd every Tittle of what he said, and esteeming the Chevalier as her Guardian Angel, she deliver'd up all her Diamonds to him, with every thing besides of most Value.

  3. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

  4. When he stated that “one tittle of the law” could not fall, he referred to the minute projections which distinguish Hebrew letters, and meant that the slightest requirement of the Law was sacred and abiding.

  5. Notwithstanding the liberal phrases in which Catherine habitually indulged, she never had the least intention of ceding one jot or tittle of her autocratic power, and the Noblesse as a class never obtained even a shadow of political influence.

  6. In spirit and character she is now what she was under the Patriarchs in the time of the Muscovite Tsars, holding fast to the promise that no jot or tittle shall pass from the law till all be fulfilled.

  7. No matter how fierce the assaults of the enemy or skillful his stratagem they have refused to yield one jot or one tittle of their cherished convictions.

  8. Its teachings do not deviate a hairbreadth from the verities they enshrine, nor does the weight of its message detract one jot or one tittle from the influence they exert or the loyalty they inspire.

  9. Every Christian forms a part of that one mystical body, of which Christ is the head, and in which alone can be fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law.

  10. Whatever therefore he shall say, believe not one syllable or tittle of it, for all such language is but to overcome us, and to make us, while we wallow in our blood, the trophies of his merciless victory.

  11. But I say, all in vain; desperation will not comfort him, the old covenant will not save him; nay, heaven and earth shall pass away before one jot or tittle of the Word and law of grace shall fall or be removed.

  12. Mount, thou spakest fire and justice; and since thou hast delivered us to holy a law, and are resolved that the least tittle thereof shall by no means fall to the ground; by what means is it that mercy should come unto us?

  13. Where is that jot or tittle of the law that is able to object against my doings for want of satisfaction?

  14. Was not every tittle of the law reasonable, both in the first and second table?

  15. Provided, also, that if at any time after that the plague appears, they ordinarily proceed to deal with them, as here things will be done to a tittle and a hair's breadth.

  16. That silly story of the election altered in no tittle the value of your testimony: so much for that.

  17. It was this that seems meant in the phrase that 'not one jot nor tittle of the law should pass.

  18. He would show that even an archbishop could not alter a tittle of the gospel narrative.

  19. He shall not abate one jot or tittle of fatherly affection.

  20. If the law this day completely reversed the position of husband and wife, it would make no jot or tittle of change in their actual position, where they love each other as they ought.

  21. The trial was protracted for many weeks without jot or tittle of abatement in the public interest.

  22. Why, sir, such a charge without one tittle of evidence is only fit to come from a man who lives in a bottle, and is fed with a spoon!

  23. I have no tittle of evidence in my favour to prove anything beyond the fact that the old Squire in the latter days of his life did make a will which has not been found.

  24. Let them accuse him as they might, there would be no tittle of evidence against him.

  25. Let us consider it as containing the words of truth and soberness; not one jot or one tittle needs to be abated; it must not be lowered to us, but we rather raised to it.

  26. They did not however abate one jot or tittle of earnest effort in providing for a renewal of the contest in the ensuing spring.

  27. Yet he had managed to succeed without, in the process, sacrificing jot or tittle of his principles; and to-day he held a position that any member of his profession across the seas might envy him.

  28. And yet these same bold and hardy pioneers were held incapable of deciding jot or tittle in the public affairs of their adopted home.

  29. Ewald tries to urge something for the former conjecture; yet neither for it nor for the latter is there any tittle of real evidence.

  30. Some of the wisest would be infidels to so new and so refined a scheme of thinking, and demand experiment, or cry it was all against reason, and would not allow the least tittle to be true without it.

  31. I am contented, and desire them, for their punishment, to lay down the book before they arrive at the more pleasant parts of it, which are yet to come, and not to read one tittle farther.

  32. Huxley, to requote what has before been quoted, says: "I can not see one tittle of evidence that the great unknown stands to us in the light of a Father.

  33. I can not see one tittle of evidence that the great unknown stands to us in the light of a Father.

  34. I don't believe it the less for our knowing nothing of it; for unless their daughter were breeding, and it were to save her character, neither your brother nor Lady Hertford would disclose a tittle about it.

  35. You may be sure I shall not mention a tittle of what you say to me.

  36. It was in regard to this very tittle that De Maupassant had a disagreement with Audran and Boucheron director of the Bouffes Parisiens in October, 1890 They had given this title to an operetta about to be played at the Bouffes.

  37. The lamp placed at the edge of the Tittle table above his head shone on his curly hair, and on a portion of his forehead; he did not move, he did not raise his eyes or make any gesture.

  38. Though the Parliament is met, and the town they say, full, I have not heard a tittle of news of any sort; and yet my prison is a coffeehouse in a morning, though I have been far from well this whole week.

  39. I enjoin you, as a penance, not to contradict one tittle I have said here; for I am not begging more compliments, and shall take it seriously ill if you ever pay me another.

  40. I have not a tittle to add-but that the Lord Mayor did not fetch Madame du Barry in the City-royal coach; but kept her to dinner.

  41. Three persons have called on me since I came, but have not contributed a tittle of news to my journal.

  42. Nay, I write, though I shall see you on Sunday, and have not a tittle to tell you.

  43. We have maintained that God cannot, strictly speaking, dispense from one jot or tittle of natural law.

  44. The Pope cannot validly resign and put out of his own and his successors' hands, nor can the Cardinals take away from him, nor the Episcopate, one jot or tittle of this spiritual prerogative.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tittle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.