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Kandaules may take your place to-morrow, but give hum the strictest orders, and say that the slightest neglect will put his life in danger.--Now depart. [10]
You all of you forget that his heart is sore, and that the slightest vexation pains him. [10]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
We pass by what would be of inestimable value to us, and pack our memories with the most trivial odds and ends that never by any chance; under any circumstances whatsoever, could be of the slightest use to any one. [5]
Indeed, all ghosts were laid, nor was there about her the slightest evidence of mourning or regret. [9]
Such accuracy, it was sometimes whispered, required absolutely perfect adjustment, and what would happen when the great inventor--"the poet in steel," as Clemens once called him--was no longer at hand to supervise and to correct the slightest variation. [5]
The paper handed to him by the Governor said this: "I assure you that the town of Smolensk is not in the slightest danger as yet and it is unlikely that it will be threatened with any. [2]
I had expected to feel some dread, or shrinking, or at least some sense of insecurity, but I did not the slightest, then or afterwards; and I think mine is the usual experience. [4]
All the same, they are credulous, and entertain doubt and belief on the slightest evidence. [4]
I shan't waste the time--I haven't the slightest desire to loaf, but a consuming desire to work, ever since I got back my swing. [5]
During the delay the spectators exhibited unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner and the lawyers. [5]
Here is not the slightest thing that ever we have seen save in pictures--and we always mistrusted the pictures before. [5]
Lali had not the slightest sense of fear, but she knew that the horse had gone mad. [11]
We have not the slightest respect for it as such, and it is just as well to remember this in all our spiritual adjustments. [6]
I have not the slightest recollection of the book or the passage. [6]
There is not the slightest reason to be afraid of a storm. [10]
There was not the slightest movement of the body except the small eyes, which wandered restlessly around the spacious room as if they missed something. [10]
There was not the slightest indication apparent of the end that was so near. [4]
Nothing of even the slightest importance. [5]
I have not the slightest doubt that it will be the morale of our own army also, but at present the British are holding the fort. [9]
There was not the slightest doubt that he could be effectively rude, and often was; but it was evident, for some reason, that he meant to be gracious (for Mr. Pembroke) to Honora. [9]
There was not the slightest change recorded by the instrument, during the whole time. [5]
My removal from the army does not produce the slightest stir--a blind man has left it. [2]
He assured me that he had not the slightest objection whatever to my plan, that he wished me every success, and that, if there were any books in his library bearing on my subject that I liked to use, they were entirely at my service. [6]
Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him. [2]
She, who was taught by Epicurus to strive for freedom from pain and is so sensitive to the slightest bodily suffering, is still seeking a path which, with the least agony, will lead to the eternal rest for which she longs. [10]
Pierre did not take his eyes from him and did not miss his slightest movement. [2]
Summoning all his strength he rushed down to the Nile, flung the bag in, and then with a beating heart, but as he imagined without the slightest evidence of guilt, remained standing on the shore. [10]
They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat. [5]
Justine Caron was slyly besieged by the curious, but they went away empty; for Justine, if very simple and single-minded, was yet too much concerned for both Galt Roscoe and Mrs. Falchion to give the inquiring the slightest clue. [11]
There was the slightest unsteadiness in her voice as she replied:--"Is it necessary to go into that, Hugh? [9]
And yet there she was in his mind, to take possession of it on the slightest occasion. [9]
He had no promise that an amendment offered by him to anything on this subject would receive the slightest consideration. [7]
An unearthly stillness prevailed, for at the slightest noise the judge uttered sternly the command: "Order in the Court! [5]
She would have preferred not to reply at all, and this slightest of references to his work--and hers --seemed to degrade it. [9]
It was a peculiar movement in its quickness and inasmuch that while performing it the rider did not swerve in the slightest from a square front to the group before him. [13]
For my own part, I cannot see the slightest resemblance between the two characters, and so I told her; but she persisted in saying that Francesca was Jane Eyre married to a good-natured "Bear" of a Swedish surgeon. [14]
Meantime Harry blossomed out in the society of Hawkeye, as he did in any society where fortune cast him and he had the slightest opportunity to expand. [5]
He spoke with only the slightest accent, one that had been inherited but not cultivated. [5]
When he stood on the stage, looking down upon the thousands kneeling before him, not a muscle of his noble face--it is certainly that--betrayed the slightest emotion. [10]
He denounces Douglas on the slightest excuse, and would go to Washington when Congress opens to fight with Stephens and Toombs and Davis. [9]
Feasting his eyes on the beautiful out-doors does not prevent his attention to the slightest noise in the wainscot. [4]
Medicine, sometimes impertinently, often ignorantly, often carelessly called "allopathy," appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anybody who is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause. [3]
I am not of the slightest use in your life, I haven't been a factor in it for years. [9]
It is not of the slightest interest to the patient to know whether three or three and a quarter cubic inches of his lung are hepatized. [6]
At the end of the second day the village talk was to the effect that Injun Joe's evidence stood firm and unshaken, and that there was not the slightest question as to what the jury's verdict would be. [5]
Barbara is glad of that, and coughs--Hem!--just the slightest cough possible--not more than that. [12]
Behind the pane of plate-glass which bore his name and title burned a modest lamp, signifying to the passers-by that at all hours of the night the slightest favors (or fevers) were welcome. [6]
The slightest hint of it would throw him into a paroxysm, like that he had had when it was first spoken. [12]
No magazine paper of his had gained the slightest notice from these sublimated beings, who discovered a new genius every month. [4]
They were fond of him, grateful to him, treating him with a frank camaraderie that had in it not the slightest touch of condescension, but Ditmar would have been the first to recognize that there were limits to the intimacy. [9]
Nevertheless, the idea of developing Tom into a Shakespeare,--Tom, who had not the slightest desire to be one I was appalling, besides having in it an element of useless self-sacrifice from which I recoiled. [9]
Probably a word of command was given and was followed by the reports of eight muskets; but try as he would Pierre could not afterwards remember having heard the slightest sound of the shots. [2]
The wife had not the slightest idea where she was going, and even when Mackenzie, at Mrs. Townley's oft-repeated request, explained very briefly and unpicturesquely, she only looked incredulous or unconcerned. [11]
Miss Russell paid not the slightest heed. [9]
But there is not the slightest ground for suspicion. [9]
There was discernible not the slightest crack of crevice in the enamel of this woman's worldly armour. [9]
Mind, I am not saying his whisky ever affected his head or his legs, for it did not, in even the slightest degree. [5]
Hitherto we have never, in a single instance of our discovery, found the slightest resemblance between mesmerism and metaphysics. [5]
Instead of being merely an honorary and ornamental official, Mrs. Eddy is the only official in the entire body that has the slightest power. [5]
Barine listened without making the slightest effort to catch the meaning of the words which reached her ears. [10]
How difficult he made it for her to maintain the resolution which she had formed during the mass for the dead, since he remained aloof, without giving even the slightest token of remembrance. [10]
There is nothing like a grove of pines to give a sense of warmth in winter and an air of coolness in summer, so does the slightest breeze make the pine-needles swish like the freshening sea. [11]
As he pressed it, he thought he felt the slightest pressure in return, and then she fled up the steps. [9]
From the room in which Nicholas was sleeping came the sound of his even breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife. [2]
There are chords in the human heart--strange, varying strings--which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. [12]
The Democratic policy in regard to that institution will not tolerate the merest breath, the slightest hint, of the least degree of wrong about it. [7]
Hildanus himself reports, in detail, the case of a lady who had received a moderate wound, for which the Unguentum Armarium was employed without the slightest use. [6]
Take as an illustration the little book entitled "Baddeck," one of the slightest of his productions in this field. [4]
The man whom I loved obeyed my slightest glance, without its aid. [10]
The single gentleman, however, was not in the slightest degree affected by this circumstance, but proceeded with perfect composure to unwind the shawl which was tied round his neck, and then to pull off his boots. [12]
I cannot see, however, that this thought is of the slightest value to us here, any more than weeds are. [4]
It is astonishing how morbidly sensitive some vulgar beauties are to the slightest demonstration of this kind. [6]
Everything spoke of his care, his tenderness, his quickness to anticipate her slightest wish or whim. [4]
Her service to him was unflagging, but he had never been under the slightest delusion that it was not an inheritance from his wife. [9]
I ought to have been ashamed, perhaps, but I had, not the slightest idea who Melusina was until I hunted up the story, and found that she was a fairy, who for some offence was changed every Saturday to a serpent from her waist downward. [6]
If he had had the slightest suspicion of his brother, he would have killed him on the spot. [10]
Venters's keen, remembering gaze searched Balancing Rock, and the long incline, and the cracked toppling walls, but failed to note the slightest change. [13]
I'd do anything for you--give up anything in the world at your slightest wish. [9]
Somehow Stephen was fascinated by the decision and energy of Mr. Sherman's slightest movements. [9]
True, his blind eyes had been unable to see her menacing statue, but not even the slightest thrill of horror had seized him in its presence. [10]
And finally he exhibited with evident pride a pair of doeskins that buttoned over the calf to be worn with high shoes, which I make sure he would have tried on likewise had he been offered the slightest encouragement. [9]
If there is even the slightest slight shadow of a hint anywhere, it lies in the very meagerly suggestive fact that "spalleggiato" carries our word "egg" in its stomach. [5]
But have I even the slightest knowledge of what you obtained abroad or what awaits you here? [10]
They were of equal size; and the artist, who had wrought the second in great haste out of the slightest materials, had been enjoined to make Caesar as like as possible in every respect to the hero he most revered. [10]
It is long enough since politics and war have granted me even the slightest refreshment of the heart. [10]
That box was eloquent with the care with which he had studied her slightest desires and caprices. [9]
It is not easy to find the right path for you both, for even Nemesis and her power do not make the slightest change in the fact that you need faithful care and watching in your blindness. [10]
He slipped stealthily down the narrow stair, his hair rising and his pulses halting at the slightest creak. [5]
Some shrewd old doctors have a few phrases always on hand for patients that will insist on knowing the pathology of their complaints without the slightest capacity of understanding the scientific explanation. [3]
This Sanhedrin can't do anything of the slightest importance, but it can talk. [5]
Feeling as he did, and as the truth surely is, that the world's best hope depended on the continued union of these States, he was ever jealous of and watchful for whatever might have the slightest tendency to separate them. [7]
Not the slightest defect escaped Eva during this inspection. [10]
And yet who dares to say that it is not a perfectly legitimate and proper question to be discussed, without the slightest regard to the fears or the threats of Pope or prelate? [6]
She wished she could have seen him; the slightest, the most momentary, contact with such a spirit would have ennobled her own character and made ignoble thoughts and ignoble acts thereafter impossible to her forever. [5]
I was as chipper and fresh as a lark all the way and arrived without the slightest sense of fatigue. [5]
Notwithstanding the exceptional brevity of the posterior lobes in these two species, no one will pretend that their brains, in the slightest degree, approach those of the Lemurs. [1]
Had this man been endowed with the slightest capacity for perceiving the feelings of others, and had he at all understood what Pierre's feelings were, the latter would probably have left him, but the man's animated obtuseness to everything other than himself disarmed Pierre. [2]
If it was because I felt the slightest personal interest in the infernal land that I ever made a suggestion, the suggestion would never be made. [5]

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