“What do you mean by that question?” “Understand, sir, I do not in the least suspect your veracity; I ask if you are certain of it?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Near two o'clock I was busy organizing my notes in the lounge, when the captain opened the door and appeared.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

p. 411) has alleged beautiful passage from Suidas, or rather from Damascius, which show the devout and virtuous Olympius, not in the light of a warrior, but of a prophet.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I thank you particularly too for your unvarying faith in Nicolas, in the loftiness of his soul and of his destiny.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I shook a pasteboard box close before the eyes of one of my infants, when 114 days old, and it did not in the least wink; but when I put a few comfits into the box, holding it in the same position as before, and rattled them, the child blinked its eyes violently every time, and started a little.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

= ** 2 overs, put the needle into the left bottom part of the treble, close the treble as before and repeat from **.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

I was most uncommonly shocked, indeed!—Poor Edward!—he has done for himself completely—shut himself out for ever from all decent society!—but, as I directly said to my mother, I am not in the least surprised at it; from his style of education, it was always to be expected.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Nevertheless in the latter she was as anæsthetic as when awake.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

You have filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The coldness that had come over her words did not in the least hide her depth of feeling.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

Even if the snake's fangs had got through, which was not in the least likely, that did not mean to say they would touch Mr. Ratel's person inside.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

Not in the least changed.’
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

interrupted the king, with vehemence, "In man's will only, not in the Lord's, is there vacillation and change; he who justly wears a crown hath a power in the will of God, which no mortal shall defy unpunished.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

The days of the absent-minded, unkempt, slatternly, spectacled, owlish Don are over, and one has instead a brisk professional man, fond of business and ordered knowledge, who is not in the least a man of the world, but a curious variety of it, a man of a small and definite society who, on the strength of knowing a certain class, and of possessing a certain savoir faire , credits himself with a mundane position and enjoys his own self-respect.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

" Whereupon he pointed to a plain chair, not in the least raised from the ground, and altogether as common a seat as there was to be found in the hall; but his Highness sat down quietly (at which every one wondered in silence) and took the little puppet in his lap, only exclaiming in low German, "What the devil, Otto!
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

I'm not in the line any more; I guess not!"
— from Pippin; A Wandering Flame by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Not in the least!
— from Three Plays by Luigi Pirandello

His clothes were weather-worn as to colour and much mended; but they were not in the least squalid; and he had a red woollen comforter round his neck.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

"And such a moment has now come?" asked Manteuffel, quietly, whilst his piercing eyes rested on Bismarck's animated face, his own features not in the least responding to the compliment just paid him.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow