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Example sentences for "litle"

Lexicographically close words:
litigation; litigations; litigious; litil; litill; litmus; lito; litora; litore; litre
  1. And are to be sold at his shop by the litle conduit in Chepesyde at the sygne of the Resurrec- tion.

  2. Erasmus in hys double copye of words and thynges, hath made as y^e tytle declareth but a comentarye of them bothe, and as it wer a litle bil of remembraũce.

  3. I confesse I haue not made the matter here so perfecte as my wyll and desyer is it shoulde haue ben, and that I haue but brieflye touched, and as it were with my litle fynger poynted to these thinges, which require a lẽger declaracion.

  4. For the great offeryngs be kepyd stylle, but if ther be any litle some of monaye offerid that goith to the comens of the company, & the mayster whome thay call pryoure.

  5. I may tell you in cowncell, I wold nat gyue thys litle pece for all ye gold that Tagus hathe, I wyll sett it in gold, but so that it shall apere thorow a crystall stone.

  6. Before that chapell there was a litle howsse, which he sayd ones in wynter tyme whan that there was litle rowme to couer the reliques, that it was sodenly broght & sett in that place.

  7. Howbeit what impulsiue causes of litle or no moment happened in the mean season, we will in another place more plainely declare.

  8. Hauing heere but litle businesse to doe, I send you Richard Iohnson to helpe you there in your affaires.

  9. I was set at a litle table, hauing no stranger with me, directly before the Emperors face.

  10. Whan the mydwife had wel dronke, she toke the childe to bere it home, and in the wai was a litle bridg over a muddy water.

  11. Than the Welshman sayde, Put oute the litle crome of breade, and sette in, all dryncke and no breade.

  12. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, appears the following: "a presse and a litle Table with ther Carpets, L1.

  13. These are excellent good to rowe in and out ouer their bard hauens, or into any place where is litle water: they do call them Bancoens.

  14. The posthorses in this countrey are litle of bodie, but swyfte of foote.

  15. His vncle the king vnderstoode thereof, and was of so litle valor and discretion, that he could not, neither durst he put remedie in the same, which caused commotions and common rumors amongst the people.

  16. Of that deuyl they make some accompte, for these spirites they care litle or nothyng at all.

  17. None save only a litle foot-page, Crept forth at a window of stone; And he had two armes when he came in, 95 And he went back with one.

  18. All that beheard his litle footepage, 25 As he watered his masters steed; And for his masters sad perille His verry heart did bleed.

  19. The lord Thomas Mowbraie earle of Notingham was sent with fiue hundred spears to reuenge those attempts of the enimies: but for that his power was small in comparison to theirs, he preuailed litle or nothing against them.

  20. Gloster is no litle man in England, And if he list to stir commotions, Tys likely that the people will follow him.

  21. On the other side is the land of Abexin, which is that of Prester John, a kingdome although it is very great, yet it extendeth very litle on this coast.

  22. Everybody knew her, and nobody paid her any attention.

  23. He played one card after the other, winning uninterruptedly, and then he gathered up the gold and filled his pockets with the notes.

  24. But some percase will say, 'there be some of vs worthy a greater preferment then others, and one benefice were to litle for such a one.

  25. Litle thought I, when out of doore I went, That thus my life should stand on argument.

  26. I litle thought I should a found thee here.

  27. SOme there are that have said I writ not sufficiently of this part in the former Edition; I rather thinke the cause was they thought they had too litle for their money.

  28. TAke two litle whipcords of two foot long a piece, double them equally, so as there may appeare foure ends.

  29. It will be of litle value, scarce worth 5li.

  30. The father and sonne being not a litle offended herewith, committed most of his bishops to ward séeking by threats and menacings to bring them to his purpose.

  31. But here (to staie a litle with temporall affaires) it shall not be amisse to rehearse the effect of a contention, which fell about this time betwéene that king and the archbishop of Canturburie.

  32. I send you the figure in litle of a pristis[126] w^{ch} I receaued from a yarmouth seaman.

  33. I thank you for communicating the account of Thunder & lightening some strange effects thereof I haue found heere butt this last yeere wee had litle or no Thunder & lightening.

  34. A may chitt[29] a small dark gray bird litle bigger then a stint of fatnesse beyond any.

  35. I kept in water 3 moneths if a few drops of blood were putt to the water they would in a litle time looke red.

  36. Another kind of crab[82] taken for cancer fluuiatilis litle slender & of a very quick motion found in the Riuer running through yarmouth.

  37. An Hobby bird[34] so calld becaus it comes in ether with or a litle before the Hobbies in the spring.

  38. I send you a white Reed chock[116] by name some kind of Junco or litle sort thereof I haue had another very white when fresh.

  39. That which is knowne by the name of a bee-bird [see Note 117] is a litle dark gray bird I hope to get one for you.

  40. I confess for such litle birds I am much unsatisfied on the names giuen to many by countrymen, and vncertaine what to giue them myself, or to what classes of authors cleerly to reduce them.

  41. Him litle answerd th' angry Elfin knight; He never meant with words, but swords to plead his right.

  42. He backe returning by the Yvorie dore, Remounted up as light as chearefull Larke, And on his litle winges the dreame he bore 395 In hast unto his Lord, where he him left afore.

  43. We made our slaves carry all our booty, & went on to litle journeys through woods with ease, because the woods weare not thick and the earth very faire and plaine.

  44. The very day I return'd from this litle Journey wee were alarm'd by the noise of some Great Gunns.

  45. He charges himself with my letter, with promise that he should tell it to nobody of my being there, and to retourne the soonest he could possible, having but 2 litle miles to the fort of Orange.

  46. We had a role of porkepick about our heads, which was as a crowne, and two litle boyes that carryed the vessells that we had most need of; this was our dishes and our spoons.

  47. The litle boat went att the other side of the river, those hid it in the wood.

  48. A litle further an other was painted of 2 boats, one of 3 men, an other of 2, whereof one was standing with a hattchett in his hands striking on the head.

  49. Downe with this litle queane, that hath at me such spite, Saue you from hir maister, it is a very sprite.

  50. And nowe that my maister is new set on wowyng, I trust there shall none of vs finde lacke of doyng: Two paire of shoes a day will nowe be too litle To serue me, I must trotte to and fro so mickle.

  51. Its marked of the Aurelians[362] that they cannot drink standing, but that tho they have never so litle to drink, they most sit doune.

  52. As for the books I had ather before my parture or which I acquired and bought in forraine parts, I have a full and perfit Catalogue of them in my litle black-skinned book, and now I have two large Catalogues of them all.

  53. Of this chamber goes a pitty but pretty litle cabinet for Devotion.

  54. They having nothing layd up against tomorrow, if their be any day amongs others wheirin they have gotten litle or nothing, notwtstanding of this they come al to the Table, tho' nothing to eat.

  55. Their are also some of them that by litle and litle assuesses themselfes to the drinking of poison, so that at lenth by a habit they are able to take a considerable draught wt out doing themselfes harme.

  56. He at first put the Minister off with delay: and within a litle plainly mocked him, and would doe nothing.

  57. The other son, in some distemper, turned silly, and litle better, and dyed.

  58. In a litle time you shall be brought into this very church, like a sticked sou!

  59. Within some litle time, one of his sons turned distracted, and I think continues soe still.

  60. There is neuerthelesse a litle chappellet hard by on that common, but nothing capable of the multitude of Ashlie towne that should come to the same in such wise, if they did repaire thither as they ought.

  61. But yer it come all there & a litle beneth [Sidenote: Sturus.

  62. The next fall is of a water that commeth from aboue Penho by saint [Sidenote: Dennie Iland in the middest of the Sauerne, and likewise another litle one called Beuerage.

  63. Which is not a litle to be mused at, considering (I saie) that they participate of one soile, and rise so nigh one to another.

  64. It is possible also that they mislike the price in the beginning for the whole yeare insuing, as men supposing that corne will be litle worth for this, & of better price in the next yeare.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.