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Sentences starting with least

Least I reckon so. [5]
Least said soonest mended. [6]
Least said soonest mended. [11]
Least you don't know all about that thing. [5]
Least of all in happy hours. [10]
Least his sperrit does. [5]

Sentences ending with least

I proceed, with your leave, to ask a considerable number of questions,--hoping to get answers to some of them, at least. [6]
They do not worry me in the least. [6]
Letters came and went between Jefferson City and Jefferson Davis, their purport being that the Governor was to work out his own salvation, for a while at least. [9]
Mr. Wilson says we shall have to stay here for a month at least. [14]
Ursula had snatched up a spoon, and when the mad sport was ended and he had let go her hand, she rapped him with it smartly on the arm and cried: "You are still what you ever were, in the dance at least! [10]
This was enigmatical, to say the least. [9]
We can come to Paris for two months, at least. [9]
But just listen to me: We are sure you see of a hundred gold pieces at least. [10]
But I should think--speaking in the abstract entirely--that if either of those arts was ever going to be in earnest about him, it would want his exclusive devotion for a week at least. [8]
What you might think, or may have intended to do, has not moved me in the least. [11]

Short sentences using least

At least with your mouth. [5]
No--at least, not yet. [5]
At least, not yet. [5]
At least order the litter. [10]
Not the least offense intended. [5]
At least one of us. [9]
In Sydney, at least. [5]
Not in the least. [3]
Not in the least! [2]
I can at least watch. [11]

Sentences containing least two or more times

Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. [6]
We talked, and talked, and talked--at least I did; and we laughed, and laughed, and laughed--at least he did. [5]
Could the least particle of the least of these fearful insinuations be true? [9]
Perhaps those who most depended on him were the least worthy, and those who loved him most were least inclined to sacrifice their own reasonable view of life to his own sublimated spiritual conception. [4]
His 'Plus ultra' had rendered him the greatest of living men; now he desires to become the least of the least, because the Lord promises to make the last the first. [10]
We, the Dickinsons, Griersons, Parets, Jasons, etc., had this virtue at least, and it was by no means the least of the virtues,--that we did think. [9]
The least indisposition becomes a mortal malady; a simple headache develops into meningitis; a cold into pneumonia, and presently, when we are least expecting it, death is a guest in our home. [5]
They talked it all over, and as they entered town they agreed to believe that he might possibly mean somebody else--at least that he might at least mean nobody but Tom, since only Tom had testified. [5]

More example sentences with the word least in them

I go from your philosophical discussions to the reading of Jeremy Taylor's "Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying" without feeling that I have unfitted myself in the least degree for its solemn reflections. [6]
But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous. [6]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says. [6]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
Promise me that you'll never yield the least point to him in a matter of right and wrong! [8]
We all wish you to reconsider the question of resigning; not that we would wish to retain you greatly against your wish and interest, but that your decision may be at least a very well-considered one. [7]
Ranulph, I want you to know that I am at least no worse than you thought me. [11]
I can give you this, at least, and I can promise to protect and cherish you. [9]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
If I told you I would be reasonable--" "I don't believe in miracles," she said, recovering a little; "at least in modern ones. [9]
I have sent you him home least the Company should cut his throat. [4]
Go, and when you come again, it will be for us to part in peace--at least in peace. [11]
I love New York, because, as in Paris, everybody that lives in it feels that it is his property,--at least, as much as it is anybody's. [6]
Perhaps he would yet come that evening, to give Els at least a greeting from the street. [10]
And if she wrote them, they might try to stop the marriage, or at least to delay it for some years. [9]
No, I am wrong--at least only partly right. [5]
I did not write that poetry--at least, not all of it. [5]
Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
They have been wrangling over this question for at least forty years. [7]
He hoped fortune would so favour him that he could arrange for the meeting of the two alone, or, at least, in his presence only. [11]
This she hoped would repay Didymus for the injury which, to her deep regret, had been inflicted upon him, and at least partially repair the loss sustained by the former library of the museum during the conflagration in the Bruchium. [10]
How overjoyed he would have been at the fulfilment of his wish to see him united to Daphne, at least in heart; with what fiery ardour he would have upbraided those who believed him capable of having appropriated what belonged to another! [10]
And she is worth--even at this belated stage in our chronicle an attempted sketch, or at least an attempted impression. [9]
For you are worth more to us just now than any prince we have; at least so says the Grande Marquise. [11]
This estate is worth at least a quarter of a million now. [11]
And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
I, at least, worked for my Independence. [4]
He went to work also, though with his defective training he had not the least hope of success. [10]
As the day wore on our numbers increased, we were joined by other lawyers of renown, not the least of whom was Mr. Grolier himself, fresh from his triumph over religious heresy in his Church Convention. [9]
The clothes they wore had been Sunday clothes for at least that length of time. [4]
Yet, though the word fame had long been embittered to him, the inhumanity which clung to his deeds had the least share in it. [10]
At least he won't fall into one of the pits Fate digs for mortals. [10]
To none--man nor woman--and I beseech you as urgently as friend or Caesar ever besought a favor--let the least suspicion of my arrival be known. [10]
They found the woman better--at least, more cheerful. [4]
Winter comes back without the least noise or bustle, tireless, malicious, implacable. [4]
It was begun without the least idea what was to be its course and its outcome. [6]
He is now without money or place, but as usual appears to worry least of all of us, and still reads his damned Tasso for amusement. [9]
At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
Seitz first knocked with his fingers and then with his clenched fist, until the grandmother exclaimed: "You have destroyed the house, at least spare the doors. [10]
Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time. [2]
These Jasmine gave with a smiling openness and apparent good-fellowship, which were not in the least compromising. [11]
One can't help wishing that Mr. Pugh could have got at him for a single lecture, at least, of the "Star Course," or that he could have appeared in the Music Hall, "for this night only. [6]
If he doesn't wish to enter this heretic's nest himself, for which I don't blame him in the least, he need only send horses or the carriage for me. [10]
I do not wish to be understood as casting the least reflection upon the high character and standing of the gentleman from Louisiana far from it. [5]
He began to wish he could see a flash from the lantern--it would frighten him, but it would at least tell him that Tom was alive yet. [5]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
Will not the wise novelist seek to encounter the least intellectual resistance? [4]
I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
At least, he will have died for the South. [9]
However, if you will examine every thought that occurs to you for the next two days, you will find that in at least nine cases out of ten you can put your finger on the outside suggestion--And that ought to convince you that No. [5]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
Otherwise their day will be short indeed; and I should wish for them a day a little longer at least than my day and span. [11]
Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it. [5]
The Teacups of whom the least has been heard at our table are the Tutor and the Musician. [6]
I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
But, on the whole, the magnet remains the same, and it is probable that a person's normal electric condition is the thing in him least liable to dangerous variation. [4]
Fortunately for Victoria, who would not in the least have known what to reply, steps were heard on the porch, and Euphrasia opened the door. [9]
It was Evelyn who rose first and came forward, without, so far as Philip could see, the least embarrassment of recognition. [4]
According to Houzeau, who paid particular attention to the subject, the domestic fowl utters at least a dozen significant sounds. [1]
Those among them who have money take their pleasure simply and with the least expense of physical energy. [4]
One of them, who had been unable to make the least impression on her heart, resolved to win her by a stratagem. [4]
How come you, who are one of the least of the gang, to be wearing sound shoes? [10]
With those animals which were benefited by living in close association, the individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers, whilst those that cared least for their comrades, and lived solitary, would perish in greater numbers. [1]
The work with which Warner himself was least satisfied was his life of Captain John Smith, which came out in 18881. [4]
If this conclusion, which rests almost exclusively on brain-characters, be admitted, we should have a case of convergence at least in external characters, for the anthropomorphous apes are certainly more like each other in many points, than they are to other apes. [1]
In spite of which he almost succeeded, this very day, in regaining, for a time at least, the ground he had lost with her. [11]
There was nothing which gave the least reason to suspect insanity on the part of the writer, whoever he or she might be. [6]
You remember that when the weather was the least cold, he would try to come into the house. [5]
My idlest babble, when I am toying with the trifles that fall in my way, if not very full of meaning, is at least musical. [6]
And only now when I am living, or at least trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. [2]
It had seemed, when he stole away from Maurice's bedside, that he was not in the least needed. [6]
When I think what we can be if we must, I can't believe the least of us shall finally perish. [8]
Reeder--or at least what was left of him--survived his wounds two days! [5]
At least that's what they say. [5]
We didn't know what they meant, or how to set about their accomplishment, but they were not, at least, mere selfish aspirations; they implied, unconsciously no doubt, an element of service, and certainly our ideal of marriage had something fine in it. [9]
People don't know what Cirri are, at least not one out of fifty readers. [6]
And at least we've given her the opportunity of enjoying herself. [8]
And so they were, in effect--at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did--for a consideration--whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. [5]
They, at least, were satisfied, and went off to their rooms with the restful feeling that they had arrived somewhere and no unquiet spirit at morn would say "to horse. [4]
If Eldon Parr were Procrustes he, Hodder, had fitted the bed, and to say the least, this was extraordinary, if not a little disquieting. [9]
And if this were oblique it offered, at least, a definite outlet for his energy. [9]
And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by. [5]
The room we were in was at least four feet higher than the other, and we looked down on its occupants. [11]
But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
Straitened as we were for time, it was impossible to return home without a glimpse, at least, of Paris. [6]
All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
I would I were able to press you all to my heart-- but I will at least press your eagle. [11]
Honora, when she went to town for the day, generally could be sure of finding some one, at least, of the Holt family at home at luncheon time. [9]
Then the world went out in darkness, and I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all --at least for a while. [5]
And I know well that at least you are not against us in heart. [11]
We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on the barometer, to be prepared for the least change. [5]
Now she might wear none but white dresses and the least scrap of colored ornament to dress her hair or smarten her robe was strictly forbidden. [10]
A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort. [4]
So long as we are able to hope and wish, we can bear a great deal of sorrow; if the wished-for happiness does not come, anticipation is at least prolonged and has its own peculiar sweetness. [10]

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