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Example sentences for "little child"

  • She bore for him all the authority of a mother; the boy had known no other, and, when a little child he had called her Mamma Corny.

  • Almost as a little child in tractability, was Justice Hare.

  • I have heard of some people who are afraid of death; they fear they shall not go to it; but when God takes a little child there it is because He loves him.

  • It was a strong arm of shelter, that round her--a powerful pillar of protection, him upon whom she leaned; why did she not confide herself to him as trustingly as a little child?

  • The man with the iron will and stern purpose was subdued, and the power that subdued him, was the presence of a little child.

  • There is power for good in the presence of a little child.

  • I was but a little child when I left him.

  • But you do say some very unsuitable things for a little child of your age.

  • It is the first time since--since I was quite a little child.

  • I thought to find something which was mine when I was a little child, but which I lost.

  • But my little child stood in the light, and the hands of her was about the stars.

  • At such times her face was joyous and innocent as a little child's; but there were also hours of gloom, that transformed it into an expression of sullen apathy.

  • God hid the sun from me when I was a little child.

  • When she was a little child flittin' about like a wild creature, and she'd come in drenched to the skin, it was all I could do to catch her and change her clothes.

  • Yes,' said the Emperor; and then he wept like a little child.

  • So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: 'I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can get one?

  • He saw a black-bearded man who laughed at him in derision as he held high above his head the figure of a little child.

  • When they had come sufficiently far from the village to make it safe for them to speak above a whisper, Tarzan asked the old woman if she had seen aught of a white woman and a little child.

  • I had known him a long time--from a little child.

  • We must both die; we are both connected with the dead already, each by a little child.

  • I that was her little maid when she was a little child!

  • She tells me everything, like a little child.

  • But that would be like destroying a little child.

  • She was smiling at the misshapen hulk in the door as she might have smiled at a little child.

  • Five years ago a falling tree crushed him out of shape, and his mind went at the same time, so that he has been like a little child, and was always seeking for Roger Audemard--the man he once was.

  • You are acting like a little child; I am surprised at you.

  • Presently she said again: "I wish I could have been a little child always.

  • Once he was only a little child, then he was a lieutenant, then he was a general, then he was an emperor.

  • The old face was lying there alone in the dark, smiling like a little child's--oh, so peacefully.

  • She caught the girl to her breast and held her like a little child.

  • Right under their eyes, headed towards them, under the middle of the long car--a little child.

  • She carries in her the Life Power which this absurd infant is supposed to typify; and her love is greater than his, even as a wise, strong mother is greater than a little child.

  • I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child.

  • Long ere the harangue was ended, he was as a little child drinking in the utterances of a master.

  • But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  • It cried for attention like a little child, and was rapidly insinuating itself into a position in the scheme of things where it threatened to become the centre of the world.

  • The bridge I never see, nor the face of the man who died for my sin; but this I see always: the gaunt ruins of Spencer's Folly and the figure of a woman leading away a little child.

  • It was a woman--a woman with a little child in hand.

  • Indignation and pity were at their height when the strain which held them all in one common leash was loosed by the movement of a little child.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little child" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little behind; little brother; little butter; little country; little doubt; little drop; little essence; little father; little feet; little flour; little further; little grass; little inclined; little island; little mite; little prayer; little reflection; little room; little silence; little silver; little star; little surprized; little time; little troubled; little warm; little wind