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Example sentences for "little book"

  • When Montaigne passed through Venice she sent him a little book of hers, as we learn from his Journal, though they do not appear to have met.

  • Arthur Trewby's Healthy Boyhood is a little book of wholesome tendency; it deals specially with masturbation.

  • Her life and character have been studied by Arturo Graf, and more slightly in a little book by Tassini.

  • I am now correcting my little book on Expression; but it will not be published till November, when of course a copy will be sent to you.

  • Dear Darwin,--It will give me very great pleasure if you will allow me to dedicate my little book of Malayan Travels to you, although it will be far too small and unpretending a work to be worthy of that honour.

  • I am trying to begin a little book on the Distribution of Animals, but I fear I shall not make much of it from my idleness in collecting facts.

  • He whipped my little book out of his pocket and turned to page 77; there he was told to make "Oyl of Eggs.

  • In 1846 he published a little book on The Spanish Drama: Lope de Vega and Calderon, a slight affair, full of his peculiar prejudices, and devoted mainly to an unsympathetic criticism.

  • In 1882 she published a little book on the Elements of Morality, consisting of a series of easy lessons for Unitarian Sunday schools and for home teaching.

  • My passion for heraldry and hawking led to the production of a little book on heraldry which was an imitation of Sir John Sebright's "Observations on Hawking," a treatise that seemed to me simple, and clearly arranged.

  • A little book of Commentaries of Messer.

  • Dibdin, in his Bibliomania, says that Princess Elizabeth, when she was a prisoner at Woodstock in 1555, worked a cover of a little book which is now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

  • This man of quality sent him my little book of prayer and printed at Grenoble.

  • One of them was banished, because he said my little book is a good one.

  • There is a short French grammar by the Port Royal, and another by Pere Buffier, both which are worth your reading; as is also a little book called 'Les Synonymes Francois.

  • Just wait till I read it out of my little book," mimicked a new voice.

  • Let me see what my little book says," and she fetched it out of its hiding place.

  • In a minute she was back, with a little book in her hands.

  • And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 3.

  • A little book, merely a little book--could words be modester?

  • Apocalypse, and let him collect it if he can; a 'little book' which the C.

  • You look like a child from school, and you talk like some quaint little book I might have picked up on the quais.

  • You will not cast away your little book because--because the wind came and fluttered the pages?

  • I believe I'm coming to part two of my little book!

  • It's like turning back to the first page of my little book.

  • It is beautifully acknowledged in the dedication of Eugene Field's "Little Book of Western Verse," which I had the honor of publishing for the subscribers in 1889, more than three score years after the date of the foregoing letter.

  • Very, very many years ago, we read and cried over a little book written by Grace Greenwood and entitled 'The History of My Pets.

  • I hope you received my little book safely.

  • My little book on Mary Lamb just out--will send you a copy in a day or two.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little about; little angel; little bit; little child; little conversation; little dance; little dear; little difficult; little doubt; little drop; little farm; little further; little grated; little gray; little importance; little juice; little man; little matter; little minced; little patch; little quiver; little rabbit; little salt and pepper; little speech; little star; little talk