After having seen padoana, I thought myself near the end of my career, but I suffered not the least inconvenience.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But Mr. Churton Collins has not the least hesitation in throwing over the tradition which has the warrant of antiquity and setting up in its stead this ridiculous invention, for which not only is there no shred of positive evidence, but which, as Lord Campbell and Lord Penzance point out, is really put out of court by the negative evidence, since "no young man could have been at work in an attorney's office without being called upon continually to act as a witness, and in many other ways leaving traces of his work and name."
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Up to what point could an opera-singer make a fool of a good-natured young man, quite new to love?
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

,’ laughed Mr. Peggotty, ‘not to look at, but to—to consider on, you know.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The last word was flung at the boy, who had not the least notion what it meant.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

It has cost, as they reckon in round numbers, the lives of a Hundred Thousand fellow-mortals; with noyadings, conflagratings by infernal column, which defy arithmetic.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Sed en la nuna tempo la grekoj havas reĝon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

“In this expedition to the ‘Bishop’s Hotel’ I had been attended by Jupiter, who had, no doubt, observed, for some weeks past, the abstraction of my demeanor, and took especial care not to leave me alone.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

“I hope it’s not too late in the day to offer my best wishes,” said Ignatius Gallaher.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

"Cibber," says Johnson, "had nothing to lose.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

He felt fairly safe on the ground he had already covered, but new territory loomed ahead.
— from Lost Farm Camp by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Ethnology , though one of the youngest, is perhaps neither the least beautiful nor the least attractive of that fair sisterhood of sciences whose birth has rewarded the patient industry and inflexible love of truth which characterises the philosophy of the present day.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Council of Ministers appointed by the president; note - under the current power-sharing agreement the prime minister and the president share the authority to appoint ministers elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (no term limits); election last held 26 October 2000 (next to be held 30 November 2008; elections were to be held in 2005 but have been repeatedly postponed by the government; the UN Security Council has extended the government's mandate); prime minister appointed by the president election results: Laurent GBAGBO elected president; percent of vote - Laurent GBAGBO 59.4%, Robert GUEI 32.7%, Francis WODIE 5.7%, other 2.2% Croatia chief of state: President Stjepan (Stipe) MESIC (since 18 February 2000) head of government: Prime Minister Ivo SANADER (since 9 December 2003); Deputy Prime Ministers Jadranka KOSOR (since 23 December 2003) and Damir POLANCEC (since 15 February 2005), Djurdja ADLESIC (since 12 January 2008), Slobodan UZELAC (since 12 January 2008) cabinet: Council of Ministers named by the prime minister and approved by the parliamentary Assembly elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held 16 January 2005 (next to be held in January 2010); the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the president and then approved by the Assembly election results: Stjepan MESIC reelected president; percent of vote - Stjepan MESIC 66%, Jadranka KOSOR 34% in the second round Cuba chief of state: President of the Council of State and President of the Council of
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

One day, however, when we were near the line I happened to upset a bucket with some tar.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

A definite answer is required, and care is taken not to leave any loophole open by means of which the deity may escape from the obligation imposed upon him to manifest his intention.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

You have not the least idea of any wickedness."
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Now the League had many times four thousand members in London alone....
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

But, to be sure, Lucy would not give ear to such kind of talking; so she told him directly (with a great deal about sweet and love, you know, and all that—Oh, la! one can't repeat such kind of things you know)—she told him directly, she had not the least mind in the world to be off, for she could live with him upon a trifle, and how little so ever he might have, she should be very glad to have it all, you know, or something of the kind.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen