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• A slight hint will do. (10)
• The mistake had been slight. (4)
• The slight had been most determined. (4)
• Jolyon rose and made him a slight bow. (8)
• She was not insensible to the slight. (10)
• Not very tall, rather slight, blue eyes. (9)
• His mother was speaking with a slight drawl. (8)
• The I-beam seemed unaccountably thin and slight. (13)
• Elizabeth gave a slight exclamation, and blushed. (10)
• Sir Willoughby gave a slight laugh in sad amusement. (10)
• Haste was, indeed, a slight drawback to our enjoyment. (20)
• The man indulged in a slight demonstration of dissent. (22)
• As to the incident we have to note, it was very slight. (10)
• Coburn asked, his firm lips wreathing into a slight grin. (13)
• And she, by repute, was as dangerous to slight as he to attract. (10)
• Of the interview Mrs. Berry gave Lucy a slight sketch that night. (10)
• She gave a slight glance round the table, and applied herself to it. (4)
• Slight dalliance with her makes the very diminutive seem as big as life. (10)
• During the entire fight the enemy held the slight wooded acclivity beyond. (7)
• He was quite as resolute, too, about that slight matter of the Jersey bull. (10)
• She wears bright colours, and has a slow, musical voice, with a slight lisp. (8)
• Some slight advantage of ground has enabled him to overlook a part of the line. (1)
• Mr. Rippenger, too, threatened me with carvings, though my offences were slight. (10)
• Where trees and shrubs edge the lawn, a slight hollow in the grade will improve it. (17)
• I had but to fancy a slight haze on the farther water, and all was right and regular. (7)
• Her feeling at that moment was one of slight amusement at the futility of her journey. (8)
• She fingered and smoothed the slight looseness and fulness of the skin below her chin. (8)
• An intestinal operation had been performed, and there was slight hope of his recovery. (12)
• He ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father. (4)
• And then, with a slight bow, turned again into the plantation, and was soon out of sight. (4)
• What might have been hard to bear at Mansfield was to become a slight evil at Portsmouth. (4)
• It was not his fault that their venture proved of such slight return in literary material. (9)
• That smile, faintly impudent, was so infectious, that Gyp was melted to a slight response. (8)
• He was of a slight figure and low stature, with hands and feet of almost womanish littleness. (9)
• By March, 1922, they had reached the 155 level, and are still going down with slight fluctuation. (17)
• With these words she fell into a vagary; her daughter recalled her from it with a slight movement. (9)
• Slight in texture, it was simply a play with songs set to the most popular ballad tunes of the day. (3)
• Colonel Halkett mentioned a report that Nevil had received a slight thigh-wound of small importance. (10)
• It was snowing, and the cold had nipped and yellowed his meagre face between its slight grey whiskering. (8)
• He was handsome; so correctly handsome, that a slight unfriendly touch precipitated him into caricature. (10)
• She was stopped by a slight fit of coughing, and Mr. Weston instantly seized the opportunity of going on. (4)
• What a total overthrow to all my selfish resolves, all my egotistical plans, did that slight cadence give. (6)
• Kitty is slight and delicate; and Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on. (4)
• Everything threatened to overturn his slight but lofty structure of bliss so suddenly shot into the heavens. (10)
• One sees how the thing could be managed otherwise, with a slight strain on the resources of psychical research. (2)
• It was based on a fairy tale of but slight worth, and the music was strongly reminiscent of Weber and Marschner. (3)
• By shaking hands with her, you will receive a slight current of electricity, the same as you would from a battery. (21)
• During this sojourn he came near dying of pneumonia in Berlin, and he had slight relapses from it after coming home. (9)
• Rhoda half lifted her head; the slight tone of a change to tenderness swelled the gulfs of pity, and she wept aloud. (22)
• As it was, it required but a slight effort of fancy to connect his emotion with the tender recollection of past regard. (4)
• He had too slight esteem socially for Dryfoos to conceal a fact from him that he might have wished to blink with others. (9)
• She was in charge of two wards, and as a rule took the day watches; but some slight upset had given her this extra spell. (8)
• Emma made as slight a reply as she could; but it was fully sufficient for Mrs. Elton, who only wanted to be talking herself. (4)
• I saw him draw back surprised, and I was sorry that Mrs. Rushworth should resent any former supposed slight to Miss Bertram. (4)
• The classes of our social fabric have, here and there, slight connecting links, and provincial public balls are one of these. (10)
• It was drizzling, but her tall, slight figure in the golf cape looked impervious to cold and rain amongst the shivering natives. (8)
• It was very sad to see the slight thin frame grasped by those wan hands to contain the violence of the frenzy that possessed her! (10)
• They took a slight survey of all; and Catherine was impressed, beyond her expectation, by their multiplicity and their convenience. (4)
• Bernhardt was perversely willing to attempt the part of Hamlet, the question whether she did it well or not was of slight consequence. (9)
• She had turned her head towards a tall man with a very slight stoop and a brown, thin, bearded face, who was approaching from the door. (8)
• She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse. (4)
• A slight melancholy little burst; and then a louder one, followed by a full-toned laughter that fell short and showed the heart was not in it. (10)
• No food was to be administered until the fever was reduced, and then slight stimulants were to be given to re-enforce the action of the heart. (18)
• He desired to shape her character to the feminine of his own, and betrayed the surprise of a slight disappointment at her advocacy of her ideas. (10)
• His own intelligent physiog, raised at a slight slant so that he might look the better through his nose-nippers, was the very pattern of approval. (8)
• It crowned a slight acclivity devoid of undergrowth and providing an unobstructed fire that would sweep the ground for an unknown distance in front. (1)
• The size of the waste from the bathroom-tub can be increased to 2 inches with great advantage, if the additional slight expense is not objectionable. (17)
• Owing to a slight miscalculation, his face and raised arms are plainly visible through the window, as he fortifies himself from his battle against the cold. (8)
• Their interesting, almost too interesting conversation must be broken up for a time, but slight was the penance compared with the happiness which brought it on! (4)

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