I want to marry and settle down; for I am so slighted in society that I look with envy upon homely or mis-shapen men.

She looks the slightest of episodes.'

Now Orme and Juba are good friends; The school, by Orme's example won, Contend who most shall make amends For former slights to Afric's son.

Those slender ties, that prove slight as gossamer in the rending atmosphere of a metropolis, bind faster, as we found it, in hearty, homely, loving Hertfordshire.

'Miss Blake,' says she, 'I believe didn't mean no slight for not helpin' towards the carpet; for she never gives to anything, as I know of,' says she.

He had been known to take a thrashing for a crony without saying a word; but a blow ever so slight from a friend would make him roar.

It would really seem like a slight on good old Dick if we didn't make Laura an early call.

Nor did I ever hear a syllable from the brave, unselfish man of disappointment at the way in which his worldly prospects were never advanced in the slightest by the nobly adventurous work he had done.

Then, nothing would do but that Colonel Washington must tell the story of the advance, the ambuscade, and the retreat, which he did with such consummate slighting of his own part in the campaign that I interrupted him in great indignation, and, unheeding his protests, related some of the things concerning him which I have already written, and which, I swear, were very well received.

Beyond, a white cloud, slight at the base, and swelling into the shape of a balloon as it rises.

The door opened, and we found ourselves in presence of six veiled ladies in pink and silver, all of them, with one exception, a little taller and less slight than my bride.

The references to money-matters have been designedly slight throughout these pages.

Whatever may have been the real motive of Henry for exhibiting this new slight towards his royal bride, it is certain that the partisans of Marie did not fail to attribute it to the malevolence of Madame de Verneuil; and thus another subject of animosity was added to the list.

This is why you are always inciting the younger against their elders and lead those who trust you even in the slightest into dangers, where you desert them.