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But that’s just the problem: interest rates will not stay at zero forever, and economic growth in an overly indebted US will wither under just the
slightest
rise in borrowing costs.
His proposals fall apart under the
slightest
scrutiny, but it doesn’t seem to matter.
What are your particular sins?' he continued without the
slightest
pause, as if anxious not to waste time.
Don't you remember that evening when the Italian lady recited – the new Rachel?' began Golenishchev glibly, turning away from the picture to the artist without the
slightest
regret.
In the translucent stillness of the morning the
slightest
sounds were audible.
At the
slightest
hint she transferred her jealousy from one object to another.
'Oh, you know!''No, I swear I have not the
slightest
idea!' said Katavasov, laughing loudly.
However, he attentively followed the
slightest
gestures of Maheu, whose sombre profile was seen against the glimmer of the lamps.
It was an endless vista undulating beneath the
slightest
breeze; and he saw it spread and grow from day to day, and was sometimes surprised, as if he had found it in the evening more swollen with verdure than it had been in the morning.
And after that she wandered about, frightened at the
slightest
noise, trembling lest she should be seized and led away as a strumpet to that house at Marchiennes, the threat of which had haunted her like nightmare for months.
They go off at the
slightest
impact, and the animal, no matter how strong, drops dead.
One wrong step would have been disastrous on the narrow paths cut into the sides of these chasms, but I walked along with a firm tread and without the
slightest
feeling of dizziness.
Besides, when I saw master fainting, it left me without the
slightest
desire to breathe.
It would have been difficult to capture these valuable reptiles, because they wake up at the
slightest
sound, and their solid carapaces are harpoon-proof.
And even when our hearts could beat with yours, moved by some of your griefs or stirred by your deeds of courage and genius, we've had to stifle even the
slightest
token of that sympathy that arises at the sight of something fine and good, whether it comes from friend or enemy.
"Has it ever happened to you," Leon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes back to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own
slightest
sentiment?"
The knives were not sharpened, nor the floors waxed; there were iron gratings to the windows and strong bars across the fireplace; the little Homais, in spite of their spirit, could not stir without someone watching them; at the
slightest
cold their father stuffed them with pectorals; and until they were turned four they all, without pity, had to wear wadded head-protectors.
And neither Madame Bovary nor Rodolphe answered him, whilst at the
slightest
movement made by them he drew near, saying, "I beg your pardon!" and raised his hat.
Emma had a number in her cupboard that she squandered one after the other, without Charles allowing himself the
slightest
observation.
She tried to recall the
slightest
details of that past day.
She lay motionless, afraid that the
slightest
movement might make her vomit.
Its white houses with their high pitched roofs of red tiles are spread over the slope of a hill, the
slightest
contours of which are indicated by clumps of sturdy chestnuts.
The novels would have outlined for them the part to be played, shown them the model to copy; and this model, sooner or later, albeit without the
slightest
pleasure, and perhaps with reluctance, vanity would have compelled Julien to follow.
In a small town of the Aveyron or the Pyrenees, the
slightest
incident would have been made decisive by the ardour of the climate.
Thanks to this ignorance, Madame de Renal, entirely happy, occupied incessantly with the thought of Julien, was far from reproaching herself in the
slightest
degree.
This creature, for whom hypocrisy and the absence of all fellow feeling were the ordinary line of conduct, could not on this occasion bear the thought of the
slightest
want of delicacy towards a man who loved him.
If Madame de Renal had had the
slightest
self-control, she would have congratulated him on the reputation he had won, and Julien, his pride set at rest, would have been pleasant and affable to her, all the more as her new gown seemed to him charming.
The continuous attention with which he watched his own
slightest
actions, in the insane idea of being taken for a man of experience, had this one advantage; when he saw Madame de Renal again, at luncheon, his behaviour was a miracle of prudence.
When Madame de Renal was calm enough to reflect, she could not get over her astonishment that such happiness could exist and that she had never had the
slightest
idea of it.
His huge black whiskers, his enormous quantity of hair, his night-cap poised askew on the top of his head, his immense pipe, his embroidered slippers, the heavy gold chains slung across his chest in every direction, and all the equipment of a provincial financier, who imagines himself to be a ladies' man, made not the
slightest
impression upon Julien; he only thought all the more of the thrashing that he owed him.
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