It was pathetic, and perhaps just
the least bit dangerous.
So she wasn't easily frightened, whatever happened, and when the wind began to howl and whistle, and the waves began to tumble and toss, our little girl didn't mind the uproar
the least bit.
But by the time we had made the return tack to the Sonoma Hills, we could see that, while we footed it at about equal speed, Demetrios had eaten into the wind
the least bit more than we.
"Not
the least bit in the world, esteemed and revered prince!
But if I did, you know, there's a thing I should require now, just without sparing you
the least bit more--oh, not a scrap, come!--to get out of you.
I suppose most people never notice the good luck that comes to them with the number 13, and yet if
the least bit of bad luck falls on that day, they blame it to the number, and not to the proper cause."
"Not
the least bit. Might is right, and that is all there is to it.
"Good-bye, and God bless you!" he called back--his voice
the least bit husky--and then: "The thing I wanted to say-may I say it now, we are so very near the end?"
Here am I, just through my first shipwreck; and here are you, not
the least bit curious, talking about your miserable plantation.
"I cannot discover
the least bit of thread on the looms." However, he did not express his thoughts aloud.
He shared his food, his repose, and his thoughts; he knew his plans, guarded his secrets; and, impassive behind his master's agitation, without stirring
the least bit, murmured above his head in a soothing tone some words difficult to catch.
A single hour's experience of the vicissitudes incident to a business career clouded the children's spirits just
the least bit. They did not accompany each other to the doors of their chosen victims, feeling sure that together they could not approach the subject seriously; but they parted at the gate of each house, the one holding the horse while the other took the soap samples and interviewed any one who seemed of a coming-on disposition.