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Example sentences for "small child"

  • St. Clare stoops to kiss the saint while priests and citizens wait to resume their hymns of praise, and a small child climbs up a tree and tears down branches to strew upon the road in front of the bier.

  • Behind the curtain in the fresco a small child is standing who is evidently the donor, but some people believe he represents the Infant Jesus, which certainly would account for the surprised attitude of the Virgin.

  • Among a crowd of people one figure, with a Florentine headgear such as Andrea del Castagno paints, stands clearly out; below a small child can be discerned stretching out little hands towards the kneeling bishop.

  • Mayakin always spoke to him more roughly than his father, but now the youth felt very much offended by the old man and said to him reservedly, but firmly: "You had better not abuse me without reflection, for I am no longer a small child.

  • A small child, even he wants to be first among his playmates.

  • It may seem strange to us, and almost terrible, that a small child of seven can feel anything as devastating as this passion of Barbara.

  • Nancy, in her own real and naked person, was a small child with a good flow of flaxen hair and light-blue eyes.

  • Peter's mind flew absurdly back to a small child in a short black frock.

  • II In its exuberance and high spirits and general lack of self-control London was similar to a small child taken to the Drury Lane Pantomime for the first time.

  • She had behaved exactly like a small child in the nursery.

  • We know," Malone said, "You are a small child.

  • Like a small child, he told himself dismally.

  • But if a woman is pregnant or has care of a small child, no inducements are of any avail, as an exposure to the camera would give the child bad luck or a disease that might kill it.

  • The operation must not be performed when the man in question has a small child.

  • I cannot," she said, "because I have a small child to suckle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also liable; hardly necessary; imitated from; poor girl; small arms; small book; small brass; small building; small capitals; small compass; small cord; small degree; small distance; small force; small gold; small groups; small mammals; small octavo; small patch; small settlement; small squares; small valley; small voice; small wonder; smaller size; voice calling