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Sentences starting with little

Little p-private matter with both of us. [9]
Little grey man who comes Over the water, I have knelt down at her feet, Knelt at your Gabrielle's feet---ci ci! [11]
Little gray and white rabbits crouched in the grass, now nibbling, now laying long ears flat and watching the dogs. [13]
Little mite limp when he broke loose, Duncan was. [9]
Little hands, and weak--but they've helped Muff Potter a power, and they'd help him more if they could. [5]
Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. [6]
Little rills of water got established along the sides under the blankets, cold, undeniable streams, that interfered with drowsiness. [4]
Little Rias Richardson was willing to come in, and help move the barrels, and on such occasions wore carpet slippers to save his shoes. [9]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
Little Brown sprang up and became abusive in a moment. [5]

Sentences ending with little

He was a young lawyer, and succeeding fairly well and working his way along, little by little. [5]
That's just like you young men," said the regimental commander cooling down a little. [2]
When you say you will do a thing 'directly,' you mean 'immediately'; in the American language--generally speaking--the word signifies 'after a little. [5]
When you plant, you think you cannot fertilize too much: when you get the bills for the manure, you think you cannot fertilize too little. [4]
But lie down, you must lie down a little. [11]
And that transformation would have bothered Lem but little. [9]
He takes the whole crop in advance, be it big or little. [5]
What we have we give gladly, but it is little, very little. [10]
But you always was, even when you was little. [5]
He would take up his quarters in the room which he had occupied as a scholar, where he had studied, practised music, trained himself in the art of composition, and in leisure hours had even drawn and painted a little. [10]

Short sentences using little

Regl'r little Johnny, you know. [6]
Oh, how little you know! [11]
Wait a little while! [9]
But little cared we! [9]
Only a little ways. [4]
How little it was! [9]
The little church was full. [5]
Little Eugenie's knees trembled. [9]
I hate little toad-eating cities. [6]
She's a little thing. [4]

Sentences containing little two or more times

I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
She repeated the words once more, a little louder, a little clearer. [11]
It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
Then they looked wistfully up at the pilot house, and finally, little by little, Clay ventured up there, followed diffidently by Washington. [5]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
Only a little while: and in that little while Jasmine had left the house with agitated footsteps. [11]
The struggle in which we are engaged was inevitable; it might have come a little sooner, or a little later, but it must have come. [6]
One autumn day when I was a little lad of eight or nine, my grandfather and I were driving back from Whitehall in the big coach, when we spied a little maid of six by the Severn's bank, with her apron full of chestnuts. [9]
It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
If their cheekbones were a little too high, their Delft blue eyes a little too small, their colour was of the proverbial rose-leaves and cream. [9]

More example sentences with the word little in them

Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Thank you for yours on my little notification speech and on the recent inaugural address. [7]
I am not your wife save by the law; and little have you cared for law! [11]
Now I suppose your present idea is, to leave us a little more in the dark. [5]
Hadn't you got your own little spots there, and made friends with them? [11]
Tell that to your mother, little wagtail, and come again very often. [10]
The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
I will nominate your little Philopator heir to the throne, for I have no wish to contract a permanent tie with any woman, as Cleopatra belongs to you. [10]
Here, give me your little paw! [10]
I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
Will you trust your life and happiness with one who can offer you so little beside his love? [6]
Away up to your left you'll see another thread coming in--that's the Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. [5]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
I am but young to die, and thou canst save me with one little word. [5]
Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
Meanwhile downstairs in young Nicholas Bolkonski's bedroom a little lamp was burning as usual. [2]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [5]
No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
Thank you, my young friend--you have strong arms, and you may lift me a little higher yet. [10]
I thought my young friend's attitude was a little too much like that of the Muggletonians. [6]
I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
There, however, the young couple both fell victims to the climate, and died, leaving a little daughter, Sappho. [10]
I appear before you, therefore, for little else than to greet you, and to briefly say farewell. [7]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
Does that content you, impulsive little soldier? [5]
Somehow, "I like you" and "I love you" got a little mixed, as they heard it. [6]
But I loved you--" She shook her head, and with a smile of pitying disdain--he could so little see the real truth, his real misdemeanour--she said: "Oh no, never--never! [11]
I should think you would be willing to undergo a little inconvenience for your brother's sake. [5]
I will drive you with pleasure up and down behind the grove for a little while. [10]
When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
Yes, ever since you were a little shaver. [9]
I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over thus indicated, with too little reflection. [14]
We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
I appear before you to do little more than acknowledge the courtesy you pay me, and to thank you for it. [7]
I wonder if you think--if you think of that: a little home away from all these wars, aloof from vexing things. [11]
Now what do you think of that little design itself? [8]
I confess to you that I've been a little afraid at times that you'd take after Jonathan's father. [9]
I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
For instance-- 'Do you see that little boulder sticking out of the water yonder? [5]
There, now, if you please, go before me, and let me stay here alone a little while. [10]
About this time you notice, in protected, sunny spots, that the grass has a little color. [4]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
I can save you little longer, even were it my will so to do. [11]
Own up that you like--a little variety in life. [9]
I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
But how little you know what true people think or feel! [11]
Ah, how little you know of the truth! [12]
Oh, how little you know me yet! [10]
But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned you to deal with it deftly--to answer it dubiously, and leave them a little in the dark. [5]
So long as you have your dance, it matters little to you who pays for the tune. [11]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip--still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
As now, sir, you desire it, I will be a little more particular. [7]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
Tell me now, you are not in earnest, are you, but only trying a little sentiment on me? [6]
Only--don't you think you are a little too sensitive about yourself, when you are teased? [9]
Mentally, I fear, you also are too lonely and too little occupied. [14]
She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
I may teach you a very little directly, but I hope much more from the trains of thought I shall suggest. [3]
I can tell you (if you don't know it) that you have found the most artful, lying, pilfering, devilish little minx that was ever born.--Have you got her here? [12]
At last he yielded to the longing which urged him, and kissed little John--his, yes, his own son--first on his high, open brow, and then on his red lips. [10]
Kalamoun was hopeless; yet twenty-four hours earlier Fielding had fancied there was a little light in the darkness. [11]
Rustem had not yet quitted Memphis, for the first caravan, which he and his little wife were to join, was not to start for a few days. [10]
I have never yet crossed the threshold of the Little Gentleman's chamber. [6]
And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
For a hundred years the South was developed on its own lines, with astonishingly little exterior bias. [4]
In the earlier years of his ministry he had sometimes noticed this, when he was preaching; --very little of late years. [6]
A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
During the seventy years I have lived I have grown to have but little faith in outward demonstration, to believe in deeds and attainments rather than expressions. [9]
But in these years he was writing little or nothing. [6]
Of the two years divided between the Universities of Berlin and Gottingen I have little to record. [6]
He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
In one little year the end will come. [5]
The poet who wrote so prettily of him that his little life was rounded with a sleep, understated his felicity; it was rounded with a good many. [4]
These little, shabby wrongs upbraided me and tortured me, and with a pain much sharper than one feels when the wrongs have been done to the living. [5]
There will no wrong come of all this, if you will but wait a little while. [6]
As I have written you, I have been under fire very little since coming to the staff. [9]
The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight. [5]
I wanted to write what was in me, and that invasion of a little secluded French-Canadian society by a ne'er-do-well of the over-sea aristocracy had a psychological interest, which I could not resist. [11]
To make sure, write the names of the stages on my little tablet.--But wait, I must rub it smooth. [10]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
I thought you wouldn't object to a little advance on your 'Every Other Week' work till you kind of got started. [8]
A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. [7]
For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. [5]

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