Item, I ffeele butt litell effecte in the labor off W.
Item, ther is comen a newe litell Torke, whyche is a wele vysagyd felawe, off the age off xl.
The Pellican sayd, "that I ne drede; 1245 Your cursinge is of litell value; Of god I hope to have my mede, For it is falshed that ye shewe.
Nay, god forbede to feffe you so with grace, And for a worde of sugred eloquence, To have compassion in so litell space!
Therfore they han this all forsake, 1045 And taken to riches, pryde, and ese; Full fewe for god woll monkes hem make, Litell is suche order for to prayse!
For if I drede the worldes hate, Me thinketh, I were litell to prayse; I drede nothing your hye estat, Ne I drede not your disese.
Item, it was told me at Norwich that Master Berney shuld have be here with a gret felaship, and it is not so, ner no man heryth of hys comyng, ner her is but litell pepill nowther, ther wer not so few this iij.
I had nevir so moche gold of hym at onys; and telle hym that I wolle nat that he shall kepe that use, for I trowe my tenauntis have but litell gold to pay.
Come nowe furth, Litell Johnn, And go to my tresourë, And bringe me foure hundred pound, And loke well tolde it be.
Thre tymes Litell Johnn shet aboute, And alwey he slet the wande; The proudë sherif of Notingham By the markës can stande.
And thanne sayde Robyn to Litell Johnn, ‘Welcome myght thou be.
Whan they had soupëd well, The day was al gone; Robyn commaunded Litell Johnn To drawe of his hosen and his shone; 194.
Nowe so God me helpe,’ sayde Litell John, ‘And by my true leutye, I shall be the worst servaunt to hym That ever yet had he.
Litell John ete, and Litel John drank, The while that he wolde; The sherife had in his kechyn a coke, A stoute man and a bolde.
Nowe is Litell John the sherifes man, God lende us well to spede!
Swannes and fessauntes they had full gode, And foules of the ryvere; There fayled none so litell a birde That ever was bred on bryre.
There sayde ye well, setting lytell stoore by hys olde wife, hunted a callette, with whom he kept much companie abrode, he dined or supped litell at home.
I hauelitell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very well.
Also by the famous Reamayn Tullius in his litell booke De Amicicia; thangyng you for olde contynued frendschip stidffastely grounded, as I wele [qu.
I have eshe but noon oke, but litellnow comyth the fellyng ther of, &c.
Men sey, send a wiseman on thy erand, and sey litellto hym, wherfor I write brefly and litell.
Y shall nothing take from hyr more then a litell spendyng money, tille better may bee.
He that wille dysseyve hys servaunt yn maryage for so litell a thyng, he wold disseyve another frende yn a gretter thyng.
And as I understande, the Clerke of the Rolles is owte of charite with Maister Yelverton, and my Lord Chaunceller a litell mevid, &c.
Two years later he was engaged in a series of law-suits about his A B C andlitell Catechism, a book for which he had obtained a patent in the days of Edward VI.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
