" "But have they no friends, who can at once render them this service, and relieve them from the odium of it?" "There is, indeed, somewhat of this; but you must remember, that the highest of our magistrates has comparatively little power.

The Female Samson had swung the Dwarf in her teeth, and after she had let go of him he had climbed up on a chair just behind her, and stood with his arms stretched out over her and the Giant as if he was saying 'Bless you, my children,' which was a regular part of the act, and never failed to bring him a round of applause, and induce people to say, 'What a jolly little chap that Dwarf is!'

There was no vice in the creature, but there was mighty little sense.

The Troädes itself has indeed almost no fierceness and singularly little thought of revenge.

Although Aristotle devoted relatively little space to the rhetorical figures, later treatises emphasized them more and more until in post-classical and in mediaeval rhetoric little else is discussed.

She was a homely little woman with nothing of the ordinary Musgrave comeliness.

" There was exceedingly little of the mountebank in him now; he kicked Patricia's portmanteau, frankly and viciously, as he stepped over it to lift his own.

Raoul isn't an expert; so at the moment he fitted the key into the lock of the safe to open the door, I gave a sly little pull, and broke the thread, making the pearls roll everywhere about the floor.

You are a little too indulgent in saying there is no downright vulgarity; for some there is; though surprisingly little for the circumstances.

I got sick of that beastly little school, as I expect you did of yours, and so I made my uncle send me here.

Besides, practically very little was required from the new converts, so that it was very tempting to take the step that led to full citizenship.

For Frenchmen have yet to learn that such qualities have remarkably little to do with love.

Anybody that couldn't get along with mother and Major (I always called Mary Jane "Major" when I was real little, and the name kind of stayed by) couldn't get along with anybody.

" "Right the first time," he said, "and I bet you're a bully little scout.

His body, if not his temper, had got broken into the trail, but for a talkative person he had in these days strangely little to say.

Fernando carried a robe and some wraps for Morgianna, and he conducted her to a sheltered spot below the first ledge of rocks, where he spread a robe for her to sit on, and then, with loving fingers that thrilled with each touch, adjusted the wraps about her shapely little shoulders.

But you must bring her a token, a shawl or something, and remember a sprightly little mandarin for our mantelpiece, as a companion to the child I am going to purchase at the museum.

It has kept before our eyes the power of the infinitely little, time being granted, and has compelled us to exhaust known causes, before flying to the unknown.

The comely little woman said that her husband was a weaver of "Cross-over;" and I suppose he would earn about six or seven shillings a week at that kind of work; but he had been long out of work.

" The Colonel or the Boy cooked the eternal beans, bacon and mush dinner, after whatever desultory work was done; as a matter of fact, there was extraordinarily little to occupy five able-bodied men.

All these crops are raised with marvellously little human labour, the whole work of ploughing and sowing being done by machinery, that of weeding and harvesting chiefly by the carvee.

That chilly little silence made Bull's heart beat.

[4390]"that those creatures as drink of it, have commonly little or no spleen."

We have known too many instances of deep-seated and entire conviction, based on seemingly as little or less, to wish for one moment to indulge in any foolish rationalizing or to question the possibility or probability of God's drawing souls to Himself by such methods.

It is, as a rule, crooked, and consequently a little difficult to navigate.