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Example sentences for "little and"

  • Then pour it to the Malt; but by little and little, stirring them strongly together all the while they are mingling.

  • You pour some of the broth upon the sliced-bread by little and little, stewing it, before you put the Herbs upon the Potage.

  • Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

  • But, by little and little, words came to both more frankly.

  • So Randal learned, by little and little, the whole drama of the preceding night.

  • By little and little he wormed himself into her confidence; and she told him in broken whispers her simple story.

  • Randal found Beatrice in a state of mind that answered his purpose; and first turning his conversation on Harley, and noting that her countenance did not change, by little and little he drew forth her secret.

  • It was astonishing, by little and little, what a pretty place the Italian had made of it, and, what is more astonishing, how little it had cost him.

  • I proceeded on after the rain lay a little and at 4 P M arived at a remarkable rock Situated in an extensive bottom on the Stard.

  • He was pleased by this my well bred behaviour and smiled at me; whereat I albeit not one whit anhungered, but merely to humour him, fell to eating the bread, little by little and leisurely, to testify my respect.

  • By little and little he has been induced to trust in that rotten reed, and it communicates some portion of its rottenness to everything around him.

  • We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

  • And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

  • For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

  • That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.

  • And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants: and you that fear him, little and great.

  • So there we parted at their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home and to supper, and to read a little and to bed.

  • After dinner to the office again, where busy till night, and then home and to read a little and then to bed.

  • Took coach again, and got home with great content, just at day shutting in, and so as soon as home eat a little and then to bed, with exceeding great content at our day's work.

  • Pen do make so much noise in this business of his, and do it so little and so ill, that I think the King will be little the better by changing the hand.

  • At noon I home to dinner with my wife, and after dinner to sing, and then to the office a little and Sir W.

  • Lucy cried a little and took a feminine spite against his rivals, who remained to pester her.

  • After a while the door of my state-room was opened a little and a man peeped in; and when he saw my open eyes looking at him he came in altogether, giving me a nod and a smile.

  • The jarring sound of my laughter, which rang out with a ghastly impropriety in that deathly place, brought me to my senses a little and made me calmer.

  • Touched by his mien and manners next, a file She felt corrode her heart with secret wound; She felt corrode her heart, and with desire, By little and by little warmed, took fire.

  • Friends trust one another in little and big.

  • But I'll stay a little and talk to Mrs. Alison, if I may.

  • The mountain shapes, little and big, gathered in herds.

  • He tried to throw it off, laughing at himself a little and lighting a cigar.

  • Miss Armitage moved a little and waited, watching his face.

  • Tisdale's hands sought his pockets; his head dropped forward a little and he stood regarding Foster with an upward look from under frowning brows.

  • She started a little and looked me over again with new interest.

  • So little and young to deal with a thing like this.

  • She was so little and lovely in her tender contrition, that he flung discretion to the winds.

  • With the letter came the proof-sheet safe, and shall be presently exhibited to Little and Brown.

  • Another copy goes off for you, to the care of Little and Company.

  • I directed him to consign to Little and Brown in Boston, the property of the thing yours, with such phraseology and formalities as they use in those cases.

  • I confided the book very much to the conscience and discretion of Little and Brown, and after some ciphering they settle to sell it at $3.

  • The men, Little and Brown, are fair in their dealings, and the most respectable book-selling firm in Boston.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little beyond; little broth; little brother; little cabin; little care; little change; little chapel; little consequence; little dark; little distance from the; little enough; little farther; little figures; little flush; little hole; little larger; little mouse; little pieces; little pleased; little shop; little small; little table; little troubled; little valley; little while; the seventeenth