With a curious sense of light opening where all, hitherto, had been opaque, it dawned upon her that, after all, possibly, yes, probably, nay, certainly, the devotion which she had almost wearily taken for granted existed in a much Slighter degree than she had suspected, or existed no longer.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Milvain was a much Slighter figure; but the same doubt as to the precise lines of her contour filled Ralph, as he regarded them, with dismal foreboding.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
On several occasions one or other of the boys had been lowered, for Slighter offences, into this dungeon; but no one had ever been condemned to go to the bottom-if bottom there were.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black