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Example sentences for "paid little"

  • I paid little attention to his discourse, for I was looking at a Maragato lad of about fourteen, who served in the house as a kind of ostler.

  • I was so occupied in inspecting the house of Joanna Correa, that at first I paid little attention to that lady herself.

  • Wherefore, supported by the blessing of his father, together with his maternal inheritance and immense treasures, he paid little regard to the haughtiness of his brothers; assisting or opposing each of them as they merited.

  • I tried to laugh away this notion, although I knew it was well founded, but he paid little attention, and resumed what he was saying when interrupted by the entrance of the miller.

  • He did this with so much seriousness, and we were all so serious that day, that we paid little attention to him.

  • I paid little attention to them at first, but because one of my men killed a Kanacka who was a protégé of the missionaries there came a great ship (the Styx) into my port.

  • We paid little attention to these egregious eccentricities, merely remarking with a smile of amusement, "Poor Rugiero!

  • Rapt in the memories that the scene awakened, I paid little attention to the monologue of my Italian friend, when I was suddenly roused by the question, "Did you ever see a prettier couple?

  • Spring was deepening, and already had drawn its robe of green over all the earth, but Daniel Poe, the commander of the wagon train, paid little attention to its beauty.

  • He heard indistinctly the barking of dogs, and the chatter of old squaws scolding, but he paid little heed to them because he felt now the sudden rush of a terrible despair.

  • The hum of the village life still came to his ears, but he paid little heed to it.

  • Presently Paul heard a faint, wailing sound, coming from the mainland, but at first he paid little attention to it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better chance; bursting shell; comes from; fine ripe; haue taken; heavy swell; high bank; his servant; natural ability; next after; over each; paid for; paid little; paid over; paid them; real gold; roaring lion; separate dish; shall soon; smaller quantity; space equal; upon every; vital energy; wheat bran; when turned