47 Metaphors for least

The least shall be the greatest, the most true In all things, howe'er small, shall be at last Most valiant.

Yet Parliament has its merits, not the least of them being the scope it still affords for hereditary talent.

Least of all is the manliness you have named, likely to be valued among a people who have been put into men's clothes before they are out of leading-strings.

Of the many plagues that beset this land of Africa not the least are the biting flies.

In the third class are his various miscellaneous works, not the least of which is Water-Babies, a fascinating story of a chimney sweep, which mothers read to their children at bedtime,to the great delight of the round-eyed little listeners under the counterpane.

Not the least of the evils of slavery was, in his judgment, its inevitable influence in bringing degradation upon labour and the labourer.

And not the least of the advantages of cricket is the large number of friends made on the tented field.

The least that was likely to happen would be an ignominious return to Jerusalem, after a night in a guard-house, should there be a guard-house; failing that, a night in the open within easy reach of Sikh's bayonets.

But there came other things to dishearten the Emperor; and not least of these was the attitude of those who moulded popular thought in England.

Certainly not the least to be deprecated are the "ladies' present dresses;" the extravagances of which are not confined to the head, but are exhibited also all down the arm (not unaptly likened to series of balloons) and are also, in most instances, by some unusual "bustling," equally absurd.

Least is an adverb.

Not the least of the compensations has been the many letters sent to me by eminent men and women, who, having achieved results in their own work, are ever responsive to the efforts of anyone trying to reach a difficult objective.

" The air inside the house was rather stifling from a mixture of odors, and soon the grocery began to fill with loud-talking men and boys; but not the least of Dotty's troubles was the black and tan dog, who seemed to have just such a temper as Mrs. Rosenberg, and would certainly have scolded if he had had the gift of speech.

Not the least of the misfortunes which the allies suffered was the loss of the causeway, or main road, from Balaklava to the high grounds where they were encamped.

Least of all is it any justification for those who wish to have impressed upon the people a complete system of religious opinion which men of culture have avowedly put away.

Not the least, however, of the attractions of the Three Cranes, was the hostess herself.

"Fear the world and women": "thy worst enemies are the wife at thy side and thy concubine": "the least in Paradise are the women": "women are the faggots of hell"; "pious women are rare as ravens with white or red legs and white beaks"; "but for women men might enter Paradise."

I'm sure that you are all well aware that we are greatly dependent on the stinkweed plant for many purposes, the least of which is the manufacture of stinkweed pills which we all partake of religiously in order to maintain that rich aroma that permeates our bodies, but which mainly radiates from the area of our feet.

Should plausible promise of eventual good, or a deceptive or spurious sense of duty, lead us to essay this, count we must on serious consequences, not the least of which would be divisions among the Northern adherents of the Union.

Not the least of the assets of these men is the knowledge they have of the native and the hold they have obtained over them.

Sylvia had been, up to that moment, almost wholly young animal, given over to bodily ecstasy, of which not the least was the agreeable warmth on her silk-clad ankle as she held her slippered foot to the fire.

Not the least of her affliction was the consciousness of the distance increasing between herself and Elsie Méril.

But to every variety of scenery winter is the least becoming season of the year, though the hoar frost or a touch of snow will transform a whole village into fairyland at a moment's notice.

Least of all ought the difficulty of keeping them clean, to move them from the path of duty.

If the Germans should get us, the least that would happen to me would be internment until the end of the war.

47 Metaphors for  least