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Example sentences for "little comfort"

  • Edward Brady was spending the winter at Congenies for the sake of his health, and his society was a source of no little comfort to John Yeardley; who, however, still, frequently labored under spiritual depression.

  • After breakfast we read a chapter and held our meeting with Captain McPhail and his wife, and felt a little comfort in holding up the standard of religious worship.

  • But when the time is come for the Lord to pour in the healing balm into the sorrowing soul, then we find a little comfort.

  • Little comfort to me it was to hear Kennedy and Ogilvie praise you for a good Scot and true, and say that it was great pity of your death.

  • But, for my own part, the leeches gave me little comfort, saying that I might in no manner set forth with the rest, for that I could not endure to march on foot, but must die by the way.

  • Thus plainly that tower was to be of little comfort to the English.

  • It gave him a little comfort to meet the boy with a bundle pinned up in snowy napkins, from which a grateful odour ascended, bending his steps to Prickett's Lane, as he himself went out to meet his fate.

  • It was a forlorn-hope; but still the unreasoning, uncomprehending heart took a little comfort from it.

  • Come, my dearest boy, and give a little comfort to your loving and anxious "AUNT DORA.

  • Yet, during the days, the sharpness of her grief was assuaged, and she came to take a little comfort, though as yet it was but a little.

  • Any kind o' little comfort 'l do as well, sir?

  • When it came it brought as little comfort as the truth is apt to bring.

  • Any kind of little comfort, as you say," I answered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little aside; little baby; little before his death; little cabin; little cold; little cream; little exclamation; little expected; little foot; little higher; little lighter; little likely; little maiden; little master; little north; little older; little patience; little rabbit; little salt and cayenne; little salt and pepper; little smile; little thyme; little tour; little town; little voice; little weary