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Example sentences for "little thing"

  • I ask but a little thing: that thou shalt take this bairn in thy arms, pour water over it and name it.

  • Thou shalt hand the cup to me as though in error, and that is but a little thing to ask of thee.

  • Men were not made outlaw for a little thing.

  • More particular since you found that little thing, with the pretty lady inside of it.

  • Success was a little thing; the opinion of men a little thing.

  • Then is happiness and misery beside which the mere struggle to dominate men becomes trivial, the petty striving with the forces of nature seems a little thing.

  • Oh, nothing, Tom, a little thing we were consulting about.

  • I think it must be more than just a little thing.

  • They are angry--they think, why should I have all that to give away, a little thing like me?

  • Left to herself, Lucy would have told her mother and her lover ingenuously, and it would have remained a little thing.

  • Were Lucy and her cousin closeted with a great thing which would destroy Cecil's life if he discovered it, or with a little thing which he would laugh at?

  • If you want to know, quite a little thing decided me to speak to you--when you wouldn't play tennis with Freddy.

  • Papa might have married brilliantly, again and again, since I was a little thing.

  • I have no mother," Clarissa said mournfully; "mine died when I was quite a little thing.

  • It was rather difficult to fancy Miss Granger a "little thing" in any stage of her existence.

  • You've got to reach his brain, and that's a little thing in where I'm telling you.

  • It's a little thing, yet the climber's heart would not pound harder were the whole steeple falling.

  • They say the bridge has to wait when that kitten wants her dinner, and woe to the man who would treat the little thing unkindly!

  • Here's a little thing to show you how fast they go, these lives of pilots.

  • Why, when I was just a little thing, Mom'd tell me to go in the front room and pick the snipples off the floor and I'd get down and do it.

  • Gee, it was easy to get her goat-- just a little thing like a caterpillar dropped down her neck would make her holler!

  • I have here a little thing I want you to read after we leave.

  • I'm bothered myself--and such a little thing.

  • Oh, she's rather a little thing; rather dark, I told you that; seems devoted to music.

  • I hope you don't quarrel about such a little thing.

  • Somehow she had expected to find Helga a little thing, grown certainly, but still smaller than herself.

  • It will be such a little thing to you, but such a great, great thing to us, and we shall all be so happy and dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

  • So possess thy soul in patience and wait; for, as one of the Arabs says, 'It is a little thing to wait forty years for one's revenge.

  • And if thou prolong thy mourning, it were a little thing; for though the Muslims beleaguer us years and years, they will never compass their will of us nor get aught of us but trouble and weariness.

  • It was a little thing; but how it shook me!

  • But this little thing - it was not a little thing to me at the time - cut the knot of my difficulties.

  • I was floating down a stream and I had not thought about it, only enjoyed in a careless way; till a little thing startled me.

  • I do not want very much more than what has been promised, only a little thing.

  • A little thing I had forgotten, and I have done.

  • The color of your Chief's coat is perhaps a little thing; red is the color all the Queen's Chiefs wear.

  • Perhaps it is a little thing, Peter, but you're old enough to know that life is made up largely of little things and they must be right.

  • It was perfectly clear to Peter that a golden wedding with all its tributes and attributes would never be a little thing to Rebecca Mary.

  • Twenty-five years is a long time for a man to remember a little thing like a golden wedding present," went on old Peter Simmons in a teasing voice, and he winked at Rebecca Mary over his wife's head.

  • He called me a little thing, and he took me over the house and over the grounds, and told me, on pain of his direst displeasure, that I was never to give him salad without onions, and then he asked me to marry him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back here; fluoric acid; little brothers; little cold; little deprecatory; little distance; little doubtful; little earlier; little fire; little fresh; little inclination; little juice; little knowledge; little lemon; little nutmeg; little pale; little party; little pepper and salt; little pleased; little poem; little reflection; little river; little snow; little value; little white; other fields