I asked you about not being interrupted," he began thoughtfully, "because I have a little something I want to talk to you about, which I would rather no one else heard.
We nonplussed him by extending our hats, and beseeching him for just a little something.
Mandeville says that to his knowledge there are a great many people who get up ameliorating enterprises merely to be conspicuously busy in society, or to earn a little something in a good cause.
She was tender in her expressions and manners as usual, but there was a little something in her looks and language from time to time that Clement did not know exactly what to make of.
Besides, many of the profession and I know a little something of each other, and you don't think I am such a simpleton as to lose their good opinion by saying what the better heads among them would condemn as unfair and untrue?
These are old recollections, with not much to recommend them, except, perhaps, a dash of life, which may be worth a little something.
I know I owe Mr. Grizzle, and I have thought of it a great deal, and am trying to get a little something ahead to give him; he shall have all I honestly owe him just as soon as my hands can earn it.
Here, boys, go in and ask your mother to give this poor child a little something.
If I had a little something--just a little something to bring me out, I should be perfectly happy.
The only thing I want is a little occupation, a little something to bring me out, you know.
You don't know what a turn I've had, or you'd offer me a little something.
Come and have a little something and I'll tell you all about it--between ourselves, you know.
You will of course want the note extended, it will cost you a little something, perhaps, but that can be no objection under the circumstances.
She has a little something, enough to live on; but he has nothing in the world but his loom; that came out in the evidence, at the divorce.
Why don't a grand-juryman for once in his life do a little something to earn his salary and investigate what becomes of the articles which young ladies sells chances on at war bazaars?
They draw an annual salary, Mawruss; so if they went to pass a law about it, let them do a little something to earn their wages, Mawruss.
And I suppose that if the poets make all that money, the publishers make a little something, too.
Then the Clown passed it all around, and nearly everybody, excepting the boys, of course, put in a little something.
But I'd planned some little things made out of what I had in the house: things that wouldn't be anything, and yet would seem a little something.
But hast thou said a little somethingto her, chicken, for an expiring lover?
Sir; will you give me leave to get you a little something 'till the ladies come home, Sir?
It is about time to start now, after, of course, a little something to fortify us against the drive.
It might help him in one way and another; and, anyhow, it might tend to strengthen the other securities long enough at least to allow him to realize a little something now at better than ruinous rates.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little something" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
