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Again she knit her brows in perplexity; again the detective knew that she was concentrating her mind upon that incident at the prefecture, trying with all her power to recall the merest detail of it.

A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

What one learns to forget in England is the simplicity to use them; to utter, with an air of deep conviction, a string of what we should call the merest platitudes.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

Bulleyn knows, and mentions, with certainty, what others only speak of as the merest conjecture.

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

Now you smelled the merest whiff of a definite answer in his conversation.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood 'Attack Ads' Hit Upton Sinclair Again Greg Mitchell 2010

Hanescu enjoyed the merest sniff of an opportunity at the start of the third set, earning himself a solitary break point.

Wimbledon 2011: Andy Roddick turns on power against Victor Hanescu 2011

"This is all the merest moonshine," he crisply deposes, when Holmes embarks on some labyrinthine chain of reasoning.

The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

I think the simplest and most sensible attitude to have regarding the Oscars is insofar as one pays it the merest glimmer of attention, to regard it as a joke, and if in the mood for deeper mental sensations, as perfect evidence of the pitiful cultural degradation of the mainstream West.

Cruz gets Academy Award. For what? 2009

Now you smelled the merest whiff of a definite answer in his conversation.

Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood 'Attack Ads' Hit Upton Sinclair Again Greg Mitchell 2010

This presented a problem for a media that's usually all too happy to call out private equity firms for the merest hint of untoward behavior.

Yvette Kantrow: Means, Ends and Money Yvette Kantrow 2011

This presented a problem for a media that's usually all too happy to call out private equity firms for the merest hint of untoward behavior.

Yvette Kantrow: Means, Ends and Money Yvette Kantrow 2011