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Example sentences for "little round"

  • And here she found him, all curled up into a little round ball on the top of her cap.

  • He therefore could not well "occupy" Little Round Top up the Emmitsburg road, because it was but a fraction less than a mile to the east of that road.

  • Longstreet was ordered to attack a specific position "up the Emmitsburg road," which was not Little Round Top, as assumed by Gordon.

  • Position occupied by Confederate Sharp-shooters, the point from which they shot at Union Officers on Little Round Top.

  • Accepting his assurance of full justification, O'Rorke turned the head of the regiment to the left, and, following one of the officers who had been with Warren, led it diagonally up the eastern slope of Little Round Top.

  • Many of the Confederate sharpshooters had taken position among the crevasses of the rocks in the Devil's Den, where they could overlook the position on Little Round Top, and their unerring aim spread death among the Federal officers.

  • The most desperate struggle of the day was to get possession of Little Round Top, which was the key to the whole battleground west and south of Cemetery Ridge.

  • The Union forces answered quickly with their batteries and the fight extended from the peach orchard along the whole line to the base of Little Round Top.

  • Scores of the Confederate sharpshooters had taken position among the crevasses in the Devil's Den, where they could overlook the position on Little Round Top, and their unerring aim spread death among the Federal officers and gunners.

  • The battle was raging in the peach orchard when he came to Little Round Top.

  • The fire was quickly answered by the Union troops, and before long the fight extended from the peach orchard through the wheatfield and along the whole line to the base of Little Round Top.

  • But the most desperate struggle of the day was the fight for the possession of Little Round Top.

  • A Northern general, Warren, the chief engineer of the army, had seen the value of Little Round Top as quickly as Hood.

  • Harry, watching through his glasses, saw them reel back and then go on again, firing their own rifles as they climbed over the rocky sides of Little Round Top.

  • Harry saw the battle raging around the crest of Little Round Top.

  • But from the crest of Little Round Top, the precious hill so hardly won, the Union officers watched all through the night, and, now and then, they went through the batteries for which they were sure they were going to have great use.

  • General Warren, chief engineer of the Federal army, was sent at the critical moment to Little Round Top, and found that it was the citadel of the field.

  • From Cemetery Hill the ground is elevated, the ridge sloping south to the cropping out of Little Round Top, Devil's Den, and the bolder Round Top, the latter about three miles south of the town.

  • Spigot set them a little round table, placing the port and claret upon it, and bringing them a plate of biscuits in lieu of the dessert.

  • The ill-ventilated room reeked with the effluvia of stale smoke, and the faded green baize of a little round table in the centre was covered with filbert-shells and empty ale-glasses.

  • They were at a little round table, so that he was able to hear all the conversation.

  • The cross-road then came straight down toward Little Round Top, so that in a quarter of an hour more the marching column heard the welcome orders to "Halt!

  • Little Round Top, however, still remained unoccupied, save by a handful of men belonging to the Signal Corps of the army.

  • The First Brigade, formed hurriedly in brigade front, as best they could, the nature of the ground compelling the regiments to overlap each other to some extent, on the crest of Little Round top, facing the Wheat field.

  • There can be no doubt in any unprejudiced mind, that a few moments delay would have lost to us the position on Little Round Top, the key of the battle-field.

  • He may live like a gentleman, but he must not 'call himself Farmer, and go about with a little round hat.

  • When she did this it was always to look at the eggs, and, having done so, she would turn a little round, before sitting down on them again.

  • The parent bird clung to the nest, and one of the chicks, thrusting out its head from the aperture, opened its mouth, so that it looked like a little round funnel.

  • Just in front of Juniper was a little round hole.

  • Then he got an old box and made a little round hole in one end of it.

  • Just before he had alighted on that stump he had seen something move at the entrance to a little round hole in the snow.

  • Yes, sir, there was some one curled up in a little round ball in the middle of that fine bed.

  • The bedstead was a low one, without any posts, except that each leg ended at the top with a little round, flat head or knob.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assuring them; little astonished; little better; little beyond; little chance; little cloud; little cottage; little delay; little drop; little excitement; little expected; little experience; little game; little giant; little horn; little island; little lass; little seasonal temperature variation; little something; little soul; little speech; little story; little valley; little vinegar; little volume; little wistfully