Riches were the least of it.

I had, indeed, been absentat least in spiritfor nearly a day and a night.

By this, I was assured that the gardens were empty, at least for the present, of those hateful Things.

The British islands had diminished to a speck, and France was little larger; yet, a few years ago it seemed, at least to us in the United States, as if there were no other nations on the earth.

She was not prepared to lose her dignity, nor to allow the children to be educated by a woman whose faith at least with them and in their home was unreliable; their surroundings must be crystal-clear.

All along my course thus far, excepting when down in the cañons, the landscapes were mostly open to me, and expansive, at least on one side.

sir, or madam, they comprise a thing that lives, if not by the sweat of its brow, at least by the suet of its boilers.

The word appears in Church literature to refer to signs and directions as early at least as the fourteenth century (Cath.

During this period, or at least at its commencement, Lauds and Vespers alone had a clearly defined structure and followed a definite arrangement.

You may depend upon it, Agatha, the fact that she contemplates purchasing the right to support a peculiarly disreputable member of the British peerage will not hinder her in the least from making advances to all the young men in the neighborhood.

But it can hardly be doubted, that magic in its grossest and most ridiculous sense was practised in Egypt, at least among some of the vulgar, long before Pythagoras or Empedocles travelled into that country.

Duke Town did not look in the least like Dundee or the other cities in Scotland which Mary knew.

The site chosen for this curious mansion is usually some little rock-shelf within reach of the lighter particles of the spray of a waterfall, so that its walls are kept green and growing, at least during the time of high water.

"We can count on remainin' alive at least until to-morrow night," Sergeant Corney said, as if imparting some cheering information, "for these wretches do not torture a prisoner in the daytime.

"I'm sensitive like thatat least about wind and rain.

" The dowager next settled down into a more covert attack through Grace; but here she had two to contend with: her own forces rebelled, and the war had been protracted to the present hour with varied success, and at least without any material captures, on one side.

I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store-room, in whose hot window-seat I used to sit and read Cowley, with the grass-plat before, and the hum and flappings of that one solitary wasp that ever haunted it about meit is in mine ears now, as oft as summer returns; or a pannel of the yellow room.

The day was cloudy, but it did not seem that it would rain, at least before night.

By a degradation in the condition of the villani, and the elevation of that of the servi, the two classes were brought gradually nearer together; till at last the military oppression of the Normans, thrusting down all degrees of tenants and servants into one common slavery, or at least into strict dependence, one name was adopted for both of them as a generic term, that of villeins regardant.

The two last in particular, I consider as least under the power of prejudice, and most free to the influence of rational conviction.

The nave, however, at least within, is late Norman if not Transitional, and the windows in the chancel are Norman and Early English.

Without going so far, Missouri protested at least against the nomination of Mr. Breckenridge by casting its vote for Mr. Douglas.

We shall enter with them, I suppose, or at least behind them, and of course my house here will receive consideration; butha-ha!how many chickens do you believe will be purchasable in Damascus one hour after the first Algerians get here?

If this be trueand you will no doubt think soI might have returned at once, at least after Japan.

And thus all anarchy is the immediate cause of tyranny, if not over the state, at least over many of the individuals.