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1. “I’m not worried, not in the slightest,” Ackers shot back with a slight tremble in his voice
2. I can see where Stephen gets his compassion from!’ she said with a slight laugh
3. He even had a slight Southern
4. a slight shiver down his spine
5. The man drove his van back to The Stables while we took a slight detour via Liz’s landlord in order to hand back the keys
6. rasp of wind though stubby heathers and grasses, and a slight, almost effeminate
7. As she took her first step down towards the underpass she noticed a slight
8. things, all of these slight, needle tip sensations, were a lullaby for the child afraid of
9. ‘You think so?’ she asked, a slight frown appearing
10. The guard spoke with a slight burr, as though he had been chain-smoking all night
11. I told myself that I had neither the energy nor the will to worry any more I did still feel a slight chill and quickening of the pulse with every tread of a boot on the ladder outside of my cell, but it was different now
12. " Nathan laughs, and you can detect a slight hint of anxiety, "Okay, well where are they?" Sabrina's voice changes in tone when she replies
13. To watch your soul-brother take a beating for some off-hand remark or imagined slight, is to have your heart cut, slice by slice, into ribbons
14. Beyond the hedge and the ubiquitous, unforgiving, waist-high nettles, chunks of ballast gravel, sharp and stained, emited a slight haze of heat, baking the old timber sleepers laid a hundred years ago, counting off the miles between Blue Anchor and Watchett
15. As she took her first step down towards the underpass she noticed a slight change in the atmosphere
16. All of these things, all of these slight, needle tip sensations, were a lullaby for the child afraid of the dark
17. She helped him up and when he put his arm around her waist he felt her stiffen; it was ever so slight, but he felt it
18. ‘With a houseful of servants …’ I interjected earning a slight smile from Caderl before he went on
19. A slight smile appeared as her lips parted; and then alarm spread across her face, she stopped suddenly as tho she was caught doing something she shouldn’t
20. He was slight of build, about 5’11”, with thick black hair and hazel eyes
21. He picked it up and there was a slight electric shock and his body shook uncontrollably
22. A slight glint as he moves suggests it might be a knife
23. At the extreme points of the twisting movement you can exert a slight pressure to enhance the value of this limbering exercise
24. allowing the moment to pass with a slight
25. ' He chose his words with care and spoke with the slight smile and nods of one who knows
26. Eyestrain is a very common ailment suffered by those who live in a state of nervous tension because slight defects of the eyes, normally tolerated by a calmer person, becomes aggravated in nervous people
27. It was ever so slight, but it was enough
28. ’ He said with a slight smile
29. ‘Now that is a question and a half!’ he said with a slight laugh
30. Then a slight electric shock passed between him and Jake, and slowly things stared to fall into place; the mists and cobwebs seemed to clear away and he slowly became aware
31. He turned over slowly and opened one eye, feeling that slight dullness around the edge of his thought processes that suggested that maybe he had supped one glass too many the night before
32. of hers with her, she thought with a slight smile
33. Duncan gave a slight bow and as he started to ascend the steps he heard an altercation behind him
34. Lieutenant Imdrun was a very needy soul, and represented himself as a slight man with a forlorn face and droopy eyes
35. But now that I am with you, even a slight
36. More often, what you will detect is a slight change in
37. A slight movement by Naria and blood was drawn
38. electrified fence, it receives a slight shock
39. Thirty minutes later there was slight movement in the trees below them
40. There was slight movement in the trees minutes later as two men slid to the landing and looked in the house
41. slight, and the irrigation too near by, but why have any of it? Abandon them
42. As we are contemplating dessert, there is a slight ruckus at one of the other tables
43. She is slowly getting to grips with the slight modulations and vowel deflections in the man’s voice
44. The sun was shining as the young men walked over a slight rise
45. The bird disappeared behind the slight headland to one side of the bay
46. To the right, it seemed to end at a slight jutting headland; after a moment’s reflection, she concluded that the cove must be on the other side of that
47. “They have carte blanche,” Fred explained, with a slight note of
48. A slight breeze hustles old crisp packets into the corners of vacant parking bays and there is enough of a chill in the air to make skin creep with goose bumps
49. "Hello?" A slight west-country burr mixed with antipodean inflexions at the end of her sentences
50. missives, although he got a slight feeling that it was not only the
1. of equal moment; 21 for in either case the law is equally slighted
2. I doubt the distinction has improved his disposition any, since he was always defensive about his size, and quick to challenge any who slighted him
3. 20 For transgression of the law whether in small or great matters is of equal moment; 21 for in either case the law is equally slighted
4. On the contrary, as if struck by lightning, and as if possessing neither eyes nor understanding they slighted the proclamations of God
5. “You’ve been waiting for someone for three hundred years but you don’t even remember who?” Jai asked as though he was the one slighted by this offense
6. After giving in to her demands, he felt slighted that she hadn’t even thanked him
7. “With their hurt egos at being slighted by the material minded, they tend to join the arthic bandwagon
8. But you all behold how the Father's mercy is slighted and how the messengers of truth are rejected
9. 1 The apostles did not want Jesus to leave them; therefore had they slighted all his statements about dying, along with his promises to rise again
10. Historically, Americans and Canadians who had settled on the West Coast had felt slighted and ignored by the rest of Canada and the United States
11. Only the slighted man hesitated for a moment, until Nancy eyed him severely
12. Answer: Israelis like to watch politicians and wealthy businessmen reduced, demeaned, and slighted
13. ” Hillary felt slighted by the off-putting remark
14. What an irony our life has turned out to be! While I slighted him all through, he died burdening me with his magnanimity
15. As my position, rather lack of it, failed to impress him, he was won’t not to reciprocate my greetings, and soon to avoid being slighted by him I was not taking cognizance of his presence, in other words I used to ignore the would-be ignorer
16. So, Ruma set out to snare the prey into her web of adoration but to no avail, and slighted, she began to pass snide remarks about her to Anand
17. description of how he is slighted by a group of rustic women and
18. I am sure you can see how offensive it is to hear the character of the man who has offered me such charity and compassion slighted so unjustly
19. "Oh," I say, slighted that he's bringing up another girl, especially a cheerleader and is apparently very pleased about it
20. “I will not stand here and be slighted
21. Well, it has been a pleasant interlude, and I who first saw Vicki steeped in despair, red-eyed, piteous, slighted, talked about, shall see her at last departing down the hill arrayed in glory as with a garment
22. As soon as they slighted Brigit led them away from the main doors to an array of escalators at an entrance back along the way they had come
23. CHAPTER – Mars is being slighted
24. Women –who had often slighted
25. But they did, because perhaps Jesus’ love and trust really was betrayed and slighted by His human friends, by His followers and by His apostles, because by definition of the human condition, all humans are imperfect
26. flirting and it’s harmless, but I feel slighted and ignored
27. For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted, For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the
28. On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were present prevented him
29. Thus by the authority of Agramante and the wisdom of King Sobrino all this complication of disputes was arranged; but the enemy of concord and hater of peace, feeling himself slighted and made a fool of, and seeing how little he had gained after having involved them all in such an elaborate entanglement, resolved to try his hand once more by stirring up fresh quarrels and disturbances
30. She could not but smile to see the graciousness of both mother and daughter towards the very person-- for Lucy was particularly distinguished--whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify; while she herself, who had comparatively no power to wound them, sat pointedly slighted by both
31. Elinor was much more hurt by Marianne's warmth than she had been by what produced it; but Colonel Brandon's eyes, as they were fixed on Marianne, declared that he noticed only what was amiable in it, the affectionate heart which could not bear to see a sister slighted in the smallest point
32. For Marianne, however--in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss--he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman;-- and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs
33. There are friends who perhaps must be alienated, there are relatives who misunderstand and who feel that they are in some way being slighted; the really great man is often considered selfish by a large circle of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does
34. ” Her daughter-in-law Jackie assured her that Jack had never felt slighted, in spite of Rose’s belief that he, in particular, did
35. Kitty was not married, but ill, and ill from love for a man who had slighted her
36. Vronsky had slighted her, and she had slighted him, Levin
37. So it was Jonas Wilkerson who wanted Tara—Jonas and Emmie, who in some twisted way thought to even past slights by living in the home where they had been slighted
38. His father then told him that, as he had not been put to the expense of sending Angel up to Cambridge, he had felt it his duty to set by a sum of money every year towards the purchase or lease of land for him some day, that he might not feel himself unduly slighted
39. 2 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care / To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade, / And strictly meditate the thankles Muse, / Were it not better don as others use / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, / Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
40. He was a slighted Lover of Mankind, one who lov’d not wisely, but too well
41. Moscow ladies, especially by the fact that he slighted them and plainly preferred the gypsy girls and French actresses- with the chief of whom, Mademoiselle George, he was said to be on intimate relations
42. This was a Polish sergeant of Poniatowski’s corps, who explained in Polish that he had come over because he had been slighted in the
43. He scowled, feeling slighted
44. Slighted, he applied to Columbia where famed investors Ben Graham and David Dodd taught - an experience that would forever change his life
45. The mare was only to be taken down to the Parsonage half an hour before her ride were to begin; and Fanny, on its being first proposed, so far from feeling slighted, was almost over-powered with gratitude that he should be asking her leave for it
46. She saw a glance at Maria which confirmed the injury to herself: it was a scheme, a trick; she was slighted, Maria was preferred; the smile of triumph which Maria was trying to suppress shewed how well it was understood; and before Julia could command herself enough to speak, her brother gave his weight against her too, by saying, “Oh yes! Maria must be Agatha
47. After the first bitterness of the conviction of being slighted was over, she had been tolerably soon in a fair way of not thinking of him again; and when the acquaintance was renewed in town, and Mr
48. Elinor was much more hurt by Marianne’s warmth than she had been by what produced it; but Colonel Brandon’s eyes, as they were fixed on Marianne, declared that he noticed only what was amiable in it, the affectionate heart which could not bear to see a sister slighted in the smallest point
49. She saw a glance at Maria which confirmed the injury to herself: it was a scheme, a trick; she was slighted, Maria was preferred; the smile of triumph which Maria was trying to suppress shewed how well it was understood; and before Julia could command herself enough to speak, her brother gave his weight against her too, by saying, "Oh yes! Maria must be Agatha
50. She was slighted like and had no say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until after she met Mr
1. What bothers me most, is that she often tries to be clever and she likes slighting the others -especially me
2. I make this little preface, because you once mentioned the young lady to me in slighting terms
3. "How dare you say so, when he's got both his eyes? And very handsome ones they are, too," cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend
4. Some slighting phrases she had used still rankled in his memory; she had once spoken of Gretta as being country cute and that was not true of Gretta at all
5. You would have better reasons than these for slighting so respectable a class of men," said Mrs
6. She was in a position in which she seemed to herself to be slighting Mr
7. She had an active force of antagonism within her, when the antagonism turned on the defence either of plans or persons that she believed in; and the wrongs which she felt that Will had received from her husband, and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment
8. (He had put me there as a Minor Dunce—doubtless for my Success in writing Romances and for my slighting him those many Years ago
9. When, after a long, hard day, in which she had been sent here and there, sometimes on long errands through wind and cold and rain, she came in wet and hungry, and was sent out again because nobody chose to remember that she was only a child, and that her slim legs might be tired and her small body might be chilled; when she had been given only harsh words and cold, slighting looks for thanks; when the cook had been vulgar and insolent; when Miss Minchin had been in her worst mood, and when she had seen the girls sneering among themselves at her shabbiness—then she was not always able to comfort her sore, proud, desolate heart with fancies when Emily merely sat upright in her old chair and stared
10. His sympathy for the unhappy wife had become something sacred to him, so that even now, twenty years after, he could not bear a slighting allusion to her from any one, and would at once check the offender
1. The slights and disappointments of my childhood grew out of all proportion to their actual significance
2. with the sting of small wrongs and slights
3. The shock of receiving the police at five am on a Sunday morning brings back every one of the hurts and slights that she suffered at Billy's hands when they were married
4. Having angry outbursts at the smallest perceived slights
5. It returned again and again as more such slights reached his attention
6. It was much later on in Theo’s school career that revenge for individual slights took on a political form
7. He was willing to withstand the petty slights and menial work for the opportunity to work aside a real genius
8. If there have been any degrading, limiting, or doubtful slights made against any products, companies, plans, programs, investments, individuals, institutions, organizations, systems or otherwise, are unintentional
9. But what bowled me in the end are these from the Bhakti Yoga - Scores thought over mere rotting / Betters meditation awareness too / What helps man to find moorings / Are acts his with no axe to grind; Kind-hearted ’n considerate / Friendly natured, forgiving too / Lays no store on highs and lows / Suffers no pride ’n possessive not; Who's patient ’n cheerful / Self-willed as well persevering / Who's hearty ever at work / Makes he devout My beloved; Who’s simple, never in want / Covets he not in vantage post / Shakes him none, he keeps his nerve / It’s such who Me please the most; He’s My darling who craves not / Yet won’t shun the pleasures of life / Takes but things all as they come; Treats he equal friends ’n foes / Scorn or honour minds he not / Keeps he cool in grief and joy / Nurses for none soft centre, and above all, Pats ’n slights all in the score / Treats as equal score My man / Takes he lot of his in stride/ But won’t put the blame on Me
10. A man who shirks his social responsibilities and who slights
11. There were other pains, other slights that were random and unjust
12. Rapunzel doesn't pick up on the slights against his character, and instead sees these lessons as some sort of step by step guide that she needs to relay to him
13. When one is in this state, they become vulnerable to all kinds of attacks, slights, and scams, real or imagined and this is represented by the pink lines that come out of the secondary spirals
14. Some complain of the slights which are put upon them by relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause
15. The hating was at Nixon’s center, the driving force to get the “sons of bitches,” to settle all the scores for all the slights and snubs and opposition
16. Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the
17. So it was Jonas Wilkerson who wanted Tara—Jonas and Emmie, who in some twisted way thought to even past slights by living in the home where they had been slighted
18. Scarlett was so bewildered and infuriated at these slights that the party was utterly
19. He didn’t need my pity or self-regarding guilt to add to all the other slights and insults he might have suffered in his life
20. say, if she had to stand them—but not Melanie! Oh, not Melanie! She did not know why Oh, she could stand the cuts, the slights, the covert smiles, anything the town might she should mind Melanie knowing, more than anyone else
21. Mac,” as most of her neighbors called her, replayed old slights and fears, entering conversations in midstream that I later realized had concluded years earlier
22. From earliest childhood he had endured not just slights but tragedy at the hands of the nobly born
23. "This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it