Given any slightest encouragement, public support would swing on an instant all mental healing into the hands of the churches.

The crown offered slight encouragement and promised him a yearly allowance.

In that way grown-ups have of appropriating a child's party, given the slightest encouragement.

Beside him, she was no longer giving him the slightest encouragement.

With but slight encouragement, I took out an old envelope and one of those pencils that turn bright violet in water.

Where her family interests were concerned, the old lady was capable (on very slight encouragement) of looking a long way into the future.

He never gave his opponent the slightest encouragement to think he could get anything from the match.

If he had given her the slightest encouragement, she would have apologized and flung herself into his arms.

He probably would make love to her again, he reluctantly admitted, given the slightest encouragement.