The largest field may be something less than two tablecloths, while the smallest is, say, a speck of undercliff, on to which it were hard to back a 'rickshaw, wrested from the beach and growing its clump of barley within spray-shot of the waves.

The more nations advance in civilization the smaller becomes their birth-rate.

Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best God!

"Small is the gift," he added.

In every substance, even the smallest, there is a conjugial principle, 316.

THE PHOEBE (THE WATER PEWEE) "Smaller, but not a whit less active than the Kingbird is the Phoebe or Water Peweethe small Flycatcher who is almost as familiar about the farm and roadside as the Robin himself.

The larger the screw is, the greater will be the efficiency of the engine in propelling the vessel; the larger will be the ratio of the pitch to the diameter, which produces a maximum effect; and the smaller will be the length of the screw or the fraction of a convolution to produce a maximum effect.

Smaller still, and quite diminutive in comparison, are the kneeling figures of Pope Nicholas IV.

Cheats, brigands, prostitutes, and all that fry, Not having fashioned so devout a snare, Appear worse sinners than perhaps they are; For where the craft's small, small's the villainy; You're on your guard.

The smallest of the six islands named is Bohol, with an area of 1411 square miles.

The smallest and the oldest cabin was David's.

The smallest was the Bank Swallow, a sober-hued little fellow, with a short, sharp-pointed tail, his back feathers looking like a dusty brown cloak, fastened in front by a neck-band between his light throat and breast.

Seeing that the Spaniards admired the size of these grains, and quite amazed at their astonishment, he explained to them by signs that they were of no value; after which, taking in his hands four stones, of which the smallest was the size of a nut and the largest as big as an orange, he told them that in his country, which was half a day's journey distant, one found here and there ingots of gold quite as large.

The smallest are only about one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter.

Small were the worth of valour and of force, If your high wisdom governed not their course; You as the soul, as the first mover you, Vigour and life on every part bestow; How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the artists, and reward their haste.

The smaller of the two (Picus pubescens) is the Downy Woodpecker.

Perfection is reached by people of the greatest, smallest and middle size; [Footnote: The greatest sizeogâha[n.]âof men is 500 dhanush or 2000 cubits, the smallest is one cubit.

This gift That in mine eyes so small is, seemeth it

"The longer I work at politics," he said, "the smaller is my belief in human calculation.

But agony is agony, And small is the relief If, measured with eternity, Life's anguish be but brief.

Small was the space, however, allotted to such unimportant objects.

The date was, in fact, 1551; yet so small was the difference of the figures, that the mistake was really a pardonable one.

The larger the armies by which one State tries to outbid another, the smaller will be the efficiency and tactical worth of the troops; and not merely the average worth, but the worth of each separate detachment as such.

Small was the pittance that was giv'n, By cringing, sordid wealth; But, with firm confidence in Heav'n, And thankful for her health, She took again her weary task, Through all the lonely day, Nor sought again her lowly bed, Till morning dawn'd with gray.

Small was the wonder that he was glad to go.