soupçon

Slight nausea and pain in the back, headache and a soupçon of chill.

The Colonel had rather demurred at first, thinking there was a soupçon of fastness and independence in it.

Still there was a soupçon of gratification in imagining him mourning in secret anguish and remorse over her untimely end.

The soupçon of mockery in her whole air, of which all through he has been faintly but uncomfortably aware, has deepened.

We're not to be allowed even the soupçon of a wave or the lightest bouffée, while side-curls are quite démodés.