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Sentences starting with small

Small wonder he was idolized by the Watauga settlers, that he had been their leader in the struggle of Franklin for liberty. [9]
Small shippers paid two per cent. [5]
Small wonder that the way in front of it was blocked by a crowd lost in admiration of its Gothic proportions! [9]
Small wonder that the lad on the hill grinned, for the man who ran to rescue his hat from the stream was none other than the Bailly of the island, next in importance to the Lieutenant-Governor. [11]
Small wonder that the Englishman who sought the typical American found him in Sherman. [9]
Small entertainments were still frequently given, but the singers and actors had fallen off, and in that fine and spacious theatre nothing was ever done at all worthy of its past glories. [10]
Small bits, like points of tempered steel, glittered in Stephen's eyes, and his hands following up the mastery he had given them clutched Mr. Hopper's shoulders. [9]
Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side. [5]
Small matters could not disturb his serenity. [5]
Small country "investors" lost their stakes. [4]

Sentences ending with small

Everything in the world seemed small. [11]
But, after all, who knows whether the good luck we envy others is great or small? [10]
My cousin's love was great indeed, but her strictness towards me was too small. [10]
Instructions are not wanting as to the shape of the table and the size of the party; it is universally admitted that the number must be small. [4]
Approximations, synopsized speeches, translated poems, artificial flowers and chromos all have a sort of value, but it is small. [5]
It was moving too fast; it was too small. [13]
At such a time we fulfil our obligations and demands, both great and small. [10]
In dull seasons they are too large; in times of brisk advertising, and in the sudden access of important news, they are too small. [4]
I knew that the faces of each were about the width of a very large dwelling-house front, (fifty or sixty feet,) and that they were twice as high as an ordinary three-story dwelling, but still they looked small. [5]
I only know that the latter especially seemed to me very small. [10]

Short sentences using small

But they are small. [5]
It is too small. [11]
I am so small. [10]
He was very small, now. [5]
It moveth above small things. [11]
It is no small thing. [9]
It was a small note. [9]
It is no small matter. [10]
Her appetite is small indeed. [14]
A small town--no sights. [5]

Sentences containing small two or more times

They had an unfair show in the battle of life, and they held it no sin to take military advantage of the enemy--in a small way; in a small way, but not in a large one. [5]
He was beginning to be mildly interested, and, with his brother Orion, had acquired "feet" in an Esmeralda camp, probably at a very small price--so small as to hold out no exciting prospect of riches. [5]
Across the gable that fronted the road, and about ten feet above the ground, ran a narrow porch, with a wooden railing; a row of small windows filled with very small panes looked upon the porch. [5]
The room is small, but it contains a cook-stove, a chest of drawers, a small table, a couple of chairs, and two narrow beds. [4]
I wasn't only small in body in the old days, I was small in mind, Shiel. [11]
Annapolis might be said to be London on a small scale, --but on a very small scale. [9]
And it is pleasant to write down that they reared a family; because any propagation of goodness and benevolence is no small addition to the aristocracy of nature, and no small subject of rejoicing for mankind at large. [12]
It looks small, looks small on paper, but it's got a big future. [5]
The small servant looked hard enough at it with her hungry eyes to see every shred of it, small as it was, and answered, 'yes. [12]
Even small dominions have, as you doubtless know by what you have seen of the matter on a small scale in the Wart. [5]

More example sentences with the word small in them

But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
He is deceiving you now in small things, great Caesar, and later he will deceive you in greater ones. [10]
For somehow when you get at the bottom of most crimes--the small ones leastways--you find they weren't quite meant. [11]
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? [8]
Do you think you could convey my love and thanks to your "daddy" and Owen Seaman and those other oppressed and down-trodden subjects of yours, you darling small tyrant? [5]
I shall allow you a small pension. [11]
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]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. [5]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
I said he would be useful to work the weather, and attend to small matters like that, and I would give him a lift now and then when his poor little parlor-magic soured on him. [5]
Of what small worth would she have seemed to him, and to herself!--When this tyranny should be overpast, when he should be gone to some other part of his immense empire, if those she loved were spared she could be happy--ah! [10]
Relieved of the worst of her griefs, Agne followed her new friend through the streets and lanes, till they paused at the gate of a small garden and he said: "Here we are. [10]
As Brydon's gang worked, they saw a man out upon a small raft of driftwood, which had been suddenly caught in the drive of logs, and was carried out towards the middle channel. [11]
And take my word on't she got no small applause. [9]
A small, unpicturesque, wooden town, in the languor of a provincial summer; why should we pretend an interest in it which we did not feel? [4]
It is small wonder that Mrs. Short was looked upon as the head of the outraged party. [9]
Slung upon the woman's shoulders was a small fisherman's basket. [11]
She was a woman of distinguished bearing, though small, with a wan, sad look in her eyes always, but with a cheerful smile. [11]
There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
He was quite without self-consciousness, although there was that little touch of irresponsibility in him which betrayed a readiness to sell his dignity for a small compensation. [11]
Lake Bourget connects with the Rhone by a small canal. [5]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
Broad-shouldered, stout, ruddy, with small but kindly blue eyes, and a resonant bass voice suited to fill great spaces, he was always at his ease and made others easy. [10]
Her bosom heaved with quicker breathing as she remembered the ignominy he had subjected her to in Rome, and she clenched her small hands. [10]
Then I laughed with my cousin; and when I was once more alone I marvelled at the mercy of a benevolent Providence, by whose ruling a small joy makes us to forget our heavy griefs, though it were but for a moment. [10]
Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
He was lodging with Louis Charron, a small farmer and kinsman of Jean Jacques, who sold whisky--"white whisky"--without a license. [11]
So it was with Kitty Tynan in her small way. [11]
He had brought with him a small statue of a riverman with flannel shirt, scarf about the waist, thick defiant trousers and well-weaponed boots. [11]
She felt angered with herself that he could rouse her temper by such small mean irony. [11]
While he was with her she made him forget that the Hawkins' house was nothing but a wooden tenement, with four small square rooms on the ground floor and a half story; it might have been a palace for aught he knew. [5]
Krool here entered with a tray, placing it on a small table by the big desk. [11]
Over the anvil, with a small bar caught in a pair of tongs, hovered Madelinette Lajeunesse, beating, almost tenderly, the red-hot point of the steel. [11]
The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
The small square window is over the fireplace; the chimney divides to make room for it. [5]
And, Helen, you will find one small volume in my desk enveloped and directed, you will see to whom;--give this with your own hands; it is a keepsake. [6]
Many a gardener will cut you a bouquet of his choicest blossoms for small fee, but he does not love to let the seeds of his rarest varieties go out of his own hands. [6]
Two young fellows, whom I had last seen at the Henderson dinner, were seated at a small table. [4]
But her mother, who was born a countess--if the shoe doesn't make a foot small which Nature created big, there's such an outcry! [10]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
In that small white house must the fair pale Selene be sleeping, but though he rowed hither and thither, backwards and forwards, he could not succeed in discovering the window of which Pollux had spoken. [10]
At that time while with his regiment in Poland, a Polish landowner of small means had forced him to marry his daughter. [2]
When, a little while after the establishment of the new magazine, the "Saturday Club" gathered about the long table at "Parker's," such a representation of all that was best in American literature had never been collected within so small a compass. [6]
Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . [10]
The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
With all of which Mrs. Grafton was fain to agree, and must even excel, until her small stock of patience was exhausted. [9]
The small Seal which aforetime I was wont to take with me abroad lieth in my treasury. [5]
Brigond was considering whether it were better, with his scant chart, to attempt the bay, or to take small boats and make for the shore. [11]
The time came when Elsie was to be laid by her mother in the small square marked by the white stone. [6]
I then took what small change he had, and "shoved. [5]
I then took what small change he had and "shoved". [5]
In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
Down at the wharf, when the small boats put off for the steamer, one can well entertain himself. [4]
Before dawn we were with our army again, and with us the Constable and nearly all his men, for we left only a small garrison in Beaugency castle. [5]
While the ladies were waiting in Megiddo, Pentaur and his red-bearded guide proceeded northwards with a small mounted escort, with which they were supplied by the commandant of Hebron. [10]
The whole company were standing between two windows at a small table laid with hors-d'oeuvres. [2]
Besides, his debts were small in comparison with the vast sums Herr Casper had lavished in maintaining the impoverished estates of the Rotterbach kindred. [10]
Albeit my spirits were low, 'twas no small entertainment to watch the doctor and his rivals at their adieus. [9]
The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
Two small guns were in place. [11]
Some of them were beautiful, but at the same time they carried such evidences about them of the cringing spirit of those great men that we found small pleasure in examining them. [5]
By day we were all crowded into one small, stifling bar-room, and so there was no escaping this person's music. [5]
The small window-panes were actually inclosed in the wood of the sashes instead of being stuck to them with putty, as in our modern windows. [6]
On the dressing-table were a number of little ointment-boxes and small bottles for perfumes, cosmetics, washes and oils. [10]
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]
At this he went up to her with downcast eyes, drew a small box out of the breast of his robe, and took out the emerald with the damaged setting. [10]
I know very well that she can live on a small allowance, but I am not so sure about myself. [5]
He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
To attach much weight to the few but strong differences is the most obvious and perhaps the safest course, though it appears more correct to pay great attention to the many small resemblances, as giving a truly natural classification. [1]
In the dining-room we sat together at the end of a large table set aside for bachelors and small families of two or three, and it seemed as though we had all the humorists and story-tellers in that place. [9]
In the morning we rode a mile and a half through the woods and followed up a small stream to see the celebrated pools, one of which the Judge said was two hundred feet deep, and another bottomless. [4]
These facts constitute, we may take it for granted, but a small fraction of those that have actually occurred. [3]
Let us, if we can, reconstruct an August day when all (or nearly all) of Honora's small friends were gone eastward to the mountains or the seaside. [9]
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! [4]
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
Part of the way it was covered with small, loose stones--we trod on six at a time, and they all rolled. [5]
Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
The weather and water were blustering all that day, and Phips did not move, save for a small attempt--repulsed--by a handful of men to examine the landing. [11]
Although her face was wonderfully composed, it was apparent that she was wholly taken by surprise, and that what she had expected to be taxed with, in connection with her small servant, was something very different from this. [12]
His bullet-shaped head was unusually large, and his face, with its narrow brow and small, lustreless eyes, showed that he was not prone to thinking. [10]
Manifestly the size was too small for me. [5]
Never mind what was the matter with it; perhaps a very small change at the right point would have turned it into a fine success. [5]
The easier course was the course for meaner souls, and she had not one vein of thin blood nor a small idea in her whole nature. [11]
The unmentioned fact was that Jack had taken a little flier in Oshkosh, and a hint from Henderson one evening at the Union, when the venture looked squally, had let him out of a heavy loss into a small profit, and Jack felt grateful. [4]
The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
A small panel was soon found, he had plenty of brushes and colors to choose from, and in a few minutes, a burning heart, transfixed by an arrow, was completed. [10]
But then there was something about Cousin Elsie,--(the small, white scars began stinging, as he said this to himself, and he pushed his sleeve up to look at them)--there was something about Cousin Elsie he couldn't make out. [6]
But the party was small, her Majesty was very gracious and spoke to me often, and I saw that above all things she liked to be amused. [9]
If its increase was small its temptations were smaller, and that is no little recommendation in this world of temptations. [4]
The little princess was sitting at a small table, chattering with Masha, her maid. [2]
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning. [6]
The duke's room was pretty small, but plenty good enough, and so was my cubby. [5]
The last blast was peculiarly strong one, and after the small rubbish was done raining around us and we were just going to shake hands over our deliverance, a later and larger stone came down amongst our little group of pedestrians and wrecked an umbrella. [5]
The other discovery was of a small hoard of coin. [6]

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