If so, he still did not abate one jot of his resolution.

Without departing from the truth by one jot or tittle, readers may even call them "outside clerks" of the German Foreign Office, or the "ink-slingers" under the command of the German State.

Their kindly incidents and proofs of German chivalry are all of a negative character, and do not overthrow one jot or tittle of the opposing positive evidence.

Taking his pencil he began to jot down the various amounts they owed on a blank page of his pocket diary.

During the deliberation in the Rue Popincourt, at which I had just presided, Baudin had lent me his pencil to jot down some names.

Fifthly, He that imagined to himself substances such as never have been, and filled his head with ideas which have not any correspondence with the real nature of things, to which yet he gives settled and defined names, may fill his discourse, and perhaps another man's head, with the fantastical imaginations of his own brain, but will be very far from advancing thereby one jot in real and true knowledge. 31.

The guards all along the railroad were not a jot better got up than those in our little commune.

If "he" did not care a jot for me, perhaps others did.

No Knight, that owned the spell of Beauty's eyes And wore her sleeve upon his helm, had served His vows with faith like mine; I ne'er had swerved One jot from mine for all beneath the skies.

We must confess that we have no special zeal to vindicate this system from its full share of blame; but we are rather inclined to award to it every jot and tittle of the dishonored instrumentality which it has had in working mischief to the colony.

The British legal profession and trade union alone has made no sign of any disposition to relax its elaborate restrictions upon the labour of amateurs and women, or to abate one jot or one tittle of its habitual rewards.

" "My good innocent friend," said Goethe, "these people do not care a jot about thoughts and observations.

I will, regarding your letter, jot down my thoughts on the subject; we can come to an understanding in a few words.

Surely His words must be the clearest, the simplest, the most exact, the deepest, the widest; the exactly fit and true words, the complete words, the perfect words, which cannot be improved on by adding to them or taking away one jot or tittle.

Is it not written, that not one jot or tittle of the Law shall fail; and that Christ came, not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it?

People are grown ashamed of doing so now-a-days; but that does not alter the matter one jot.

And he would begin to jot downwith the assistance of a few friends, perhapsthis essential list.

As if his own absorbing deference to the present were one tittle better bottomed or a jot more respectable.

To ensure a proper use of it, I handed the cheque, with clear instructions, to a clergyman in this neighbourhood, who has been so good as to jot down, on the sheet enclosed, a memorandum of his beneficiaries, which I trust will be satisfactory and gratifying to you.

But On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round And solitude, he bated no jot of heart or hope.

Like or dislike, he does not care a jot; He wants your vote, but your affections not; Vet human hearts need sun as well as oats So cold a climate plays the deuce with votes.

For the authenticity of the former he now cared not a jot, and he threw the book aside vowing that its hoydenish heroine was unbearable

All the insults they can devise, all the petty obstructions they can set up, the mud they can fling, does not alter the calm course of the 'despot' one jot.

First phase of the battle closed six days agowith the Germans in Douaumont, and the fighting still going onbut the spirit of the French not a jot changed.

But she pressed my hand, so I cared not a jot for logic.