We went down an ash slope, very steep, where we sank in a foot or little less at every step, and there was nothing to do for it, but to run and jump.
Philip would have been a little less jubilant if he had known how the decision of the publishing house was arrived at.
Everything perplexing tumbles in upon him, all the possible vexations of the day rise up before him, and he is little less than a hero if he gets up cheerful.
Was she a little less dependent on him, in this wide horizon, than in New York?
And do make a tee-ny effort to be a little less insular, my dear.
He might be a little less tall, a little less broad, but somewhere between those two years he was cornered.
I met with a priest at San Francisco, who told me that I should look a little less like a savage, if I wore a skull-cap like his, instead of a handkercher, when I got back into what he called the civilized world.
The big man seems to be getting a little less afraid of me," thought Madonna, turning directly, and meeting his clumsy advance towards her, with a smile.
At first glance, there appeared to be only a little less than a bushel.
A look of suspicion crossed her face, and there was a little less solicitude in her voice as she inquired: "Is it anything in particular?
Mr Boffin seemed a little less patient at this point than at any other of the negotiations.
His nerve was just a little less than it had been; his eye and hand a little less steady; his judgment a little less sound; his initiative, daring, a little less paramount.
And races have been won and lost, and will be won and lost, when that "little Less" is the deciding breath that tips the scale.
In short, the more sensible of the Paris population began to conclude that a little less intoning of patriotic strophes and a good deal more of juxtaposition with the German troops was becoming advisable.
A little less board-school work and Sunday-school teaching, fewer Bible classes, and a good many practical cooking-classes would probably meet the case.
There was a little less privacy in them than in the modern Pullman, but in the eyes of Jim Fisk, whose love of elegant luxury was first responsible for their construction, they were nothing less than palaces.
If the quarries are close at hand, as they were years ago when Kirkwood built the Starucca Viaduct for the Erie, the cost of a masonry bridge will hardly exceed that of steel trusses, and the concrete structure may cost a little less.
But if we assume that Mars has acquired an atmosphere proportional to its mass, then we see from the Table that this must be a little less than 1/9th of that of the Earth; exactly 0.
In their view it is only that men would have a little less ground to walk upon on Mars, and a good deal more on Jupiter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little less" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
