She was a little late to breakfast the next morning; as she slipped into place, after kissing him good-morning, the doctor glanced at her rather closely.
Suppose every one in the room came just a little late?
Tetlow was a little late--they looked inquiringly toward the door.
The assistant bookkeeper, hurrying back from luncheon a little late, paused in the doorway, looking at the tall, red-eyed Scotchman who put the anxious question.
I am a little late," said the hoy, looking at his watch.
Just then he manages to throw in his reverse; but it's a little late, for he's got a lot of headway.
He snoops around after me, finds fault with everything I do, and fines me for being a little late mornings.
Just a case of a honeymoon that rose a little late.
He had been sent in the morning to instruct some infantry, and when he came to the starting-post a little late in the day, his engine was so hot that he dared not compete.
On the 6th I managed to entrain the remainder of my tanks at Fins by anticipating another battalion who were a little late.
Then he went down, a little late, to find his father ready and waiting.
They are a little late in reaching Mrs. Wilmarth's.
He is a little late at the lawyer's, and they are all assembled.
She is a little late at home, and finds her lord in a rather unamiable state.
She was a little late in appearing at the super-table, for her return from the wanderings of the afternoon had required more time than she supposed.
As I said, your remarks in regard to your cousin came a little late.
The majority of the people had gone in to supper, but Miss Burton, who was a little late, recognized him from the hallway, and she came swiftly out to greet him.
Cæsar smiled, and said that Cicero had perhaps been a little late in his friendship.
Are you not a little late to welcome me as one of my friends?
To be sneered at by the boy when he came back to Rome to assume the Consulship, and to be told, with a laugh, that he had been a little late in his welcome!
But as usual," said van Manderpootz, "a little late.
I'd do it gladly, but it's still a little late, Dixon.
He was a little late as judged by the iron punctuality of Arundel, and he found the ladies assembled.
It's a little late; you should have done it earlier, and besides, Edith might not like it.
I think we shall have time to go round by the Old Mill," she said, "though we are a little late in starting.
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