Meanings of slight encouragement in English

He babbled a bit sometimes under my... uh... slight encouragement.

This slight encouragement was enough for a father.

Here at least was some slight encouragement.

This might possibly make us entertain a suddenly conceived fancy for them; yet they would give us but slight encouragement.

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

Though they had survived relatively intact, there were places that needed only slight encouragement to collapse, which they did several times for the bound spellcaster.

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

I had given no man the slightest encouragement, I was perfectly free.

With the slightest encouragement, Catrina would have told her companion all that had passed.

But the days passed without the slightest encouragement, and his misery turned almost to despair.

He would have told me if he thought I could give him the slightest encouragement.

But in this instance the conduct of the lady had not given him the slightest encouragement.

She has never given me the slightest encouragement.

I am convinced that at no time did Lady Dominey give the young man the slightest encouragement.

I never give them the slightest encouragement.

And Emily says she is sure he would come back if he got the very slightest encouragement.