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Example sentences for "contemptible little"

  • No, by Jove, French's 'contemptible little Army' has given them something to do already.

  • They were just contented with their contemptible little army, and they allowed us to learn their secrets, not dreaming that England will be a vassal state to Germany, and that all her colonies will be ours.

  • A vote has been passed for a further increase of our "contemptible little Army" to four millions; and the manufacture of high explosive goes on in an ever-increasing ratio.

  • The Military Service Bill has passed through both Houses, and may be trusted to hasten still further the amazing growth of our once "contemptible little" Army.

  • This stubborn resistance threw the Germans behind their entrenchments, and the "Advance to Calais" was stemmed by French's "Contemptible Little Army.

  • Evidently the fighting men do not share the Kaiser's estimate of "French's contemptible little army.

  • But whatever the cause, the result has been the impression abroad of a "contemptible little army.

  • We should be sinking to the Kaiser's level if we answered his "contemptible little army" by pretending that his own troops are anything but a very formidable and big army.

  • It brought to the surface national pride and a fierce determination to compel Germany to recognize and to reckon with the "contemptible little army.

  • It was dubbed England's "contemptible little army" by the German General Staff.

  • The outrage on Belgium brought England into the fray, and her "contemptible little army" played no inglorious part in shattering the German advance.

  • General French's contemptible little army" has been a surprise for the Kaiser.

  • Our "contemptible little army," thanks to the genius of Lord Kitchener, has grown until to-day it numbers something in the neighbourhood of four million men.

  • But no one will contend that it was adequate in size, and we know that the Germans regarded it as a "contemptible little army" that was to be brushed aside with hardly an effort by the German hordes.

  • Well, to get back to what happened to us, the first "contemptible little army," in France and Flanders.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another proof; brief period; commercial fertilizer; contemptible little; each cell; earn money; expelled from; five pounds; forced upon; going concern; hard water; just right; little giant; mental evolution; often referred; remained till; rigor mortis; sexual excesses; single day; then told; thou wouldest; three table