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Example sentences for "little surprise"

  • Lilias looked with a little surprise at the stranger.

  • Lewis, deceived in his turn, and looking with a little surprise at the fine burly form and grizzled locks of the clergyman, who seemed to him of the same type as Adam, and not like anything that he realized as the south.

  • Jean looked up with a little surprise at this speech.

  • Mrs. Challoner looked up in a little surprise.

  • Nan, who was busily engaged in training the creeper round the pillars of the veranda, looked up in a little surprise: "Are you going out again, Phil?

  • Nan gravely introduced him to her mother, and the young man accosted her; but there was a little surprise on his face.

  • Evelyn looked with a little surprise at Maria's blouse.

  • She drooped before him with this consciousness when she opened the door, and the young man naturally started with a little surprise at the sight of her.

  • Lily looked at him with a little surprise, but with unfailing love and admiration.

  • We need to give them a little surprise, masters.

  • If I can manage to get some of my lads over to Oistins before daybreak, we might try paying them a little surprise.

  • I'd say it's odds they're planning a little surprise for us tonight.

  • Moseley, interrupting him in a little surprise.

  • He told us that he had a little surprise for us.

  • My husband,' she said, 'has prepared a little surprise for us this evening.

  • But I have been listening to your words with great interest and a little surprise.

  • Deerslayer, looking up at his companion in a little surprise.

  • The lad looked a moment at the hunter with a little surprise.

  • The Contessa and Sir Tom exchanged a look, which Lucy remarked with a little surprise, and remarked in spite of herself: and the great lady interfered to help her young dependent out.

  • Lucy looked at him with a little surprise.

  • She took it up and looked at its outside with a little surprise.

  • We had prepared a little surprise, and it is a failure.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little surprise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after years; little and; little butter and flour; little change; little danger; little dears; little deprecatory; little earlier; little enough; little exclamation; little half; little lower; little milk; little niece; little purpose; little remarkable; little salt; little satisfaction; little shake; little ship; little supper; little temple; little too; little value; little wonder; little world