slight element

“There seemed to be a slight element of plan about the German attack, which commenced two hours after dawn on the sixth day of October, more or less simultaneously upon Caepio’s camp and upon Mallius Maximus’s line of battle.”

The First Man in Rome

“There is perhaps a slight element of prejudice in the opinion, widespread among us Piedmontese, that San Gennaro and Giambattista Vico must be left to the Neapolitans.”

On the Pioneer Trail