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Example sentences for "little worth"

  • I can't help thinking, however, that it is little worth while to vex one's self about such a woman, when there is more than one of the sweetest and the best who would be happy enough to be your wife.

  • From various circumstances, which it is little worth while to speak of, this good cousin of mine has conceived a horror and fear of woman's love.

  • I fear you hold my gratitude as little worth; but this is the only means I have of showing it.

  • If he refused to hand over to me both the lady and you without resistance, I should esteem myself of little worth if I left him a foot of earth to stand upon.

  • Many a man boasts loudly who is of little worth.

  • But all this is of little worth to him who sees her flashing eyes; to all who gaze on them they seem like twin candles burning.

  • Thou, Thorod, must take my salutation to King Olaf; and say to him that he is the man I am most desirous to see, although my salutation may appear to him of little worth.

  • Sigurd replied, "Presume not to compare my father to a slave; for thy father was of little worth compared to mine.

  • To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise.

  • Defn: Something that is inferior and of little worth.

  • Yet this politic management did not entirely succeed; and although some few gave an unconditional assent, most of the provinces coupled their acquiescence with limitations that rendered it of little worth.

  • But these advantages would have proved of little worth, had it not been for the character of the men who were to profit by them.

  • I had then, it is true, little experience of the world; but I could scarce fail to recognise that I was fallen into the hands of desperate men who counted human life of little worth.

  • Such had been the case for many a day; and--as I have said--I had come to look upon life as of little worth.

  • She did not find it hard that to the end she should be slighted, and held as one of little worth.

  • Then why so fondly cling to earth, Whose joys are of so little worth?

  • To the Maiden Maiden, have not the joys of earth Prov'd fleeting, and of little worth?

  • Is thy life of so little worth, or if not thy life, thy liberty?

  • I were a fool to mine own interest to doubt thee now, little worth as are thy words in common," again muttered the incensed earl, resuming his hasty strides.

  • To many hearts it speaks of God and rest, And lifts our thoughts above the things of earth; It teaches us that love will give its best, And then regard its gifts of little worth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ager publicus; little ahead; little away; little behind; little celery; little cove; little difficulty; little disappointed; little dreaming; little family; little farm; little finger; little further; little gold; little groups; little like; little man; little niggers; little nitric; little older; little strength; little sweet; little things; little village; many members; mounted riflemen