Though they had been told to let Furbish pass, any slight incident might prove sufficient to make them show their true characters.

The affair was marred only by one slight incident.

A slight incident gave Jo the clue to the mystery, she thought, and lively fancy, loving heart did the rest.

A dozen murders on shore would lack the interest of these slight incidents at sea.

The slightest incident could spark off an eruption of gunfire and explosives.

Taylor, recognizing that the slightest incident could lead to violence, ordered the men home, and many of them complied.

Then she remembered one slight incident, and she based a last appeal upon it.

Would that little demo have involved a slight incident with a police horse?

There were several repercussions following my slight incident in the clothes shop.

It was a slight incident, and might have been design or accident, or the child's unconscious sympathy with youth.