It is perhaps due to the early usurpation of the willows that so little else finds growing-room along the large canals.

They resolutely took each other's hand and plighted their troth for life, for the hard battle of creating a new world, a new family, somewhere on the earth's broad surface, in those mysterious, far away climes of which they knew so little.

Her face was so little menacing that I called her "Miss Katharine" on the spot.

If now she has so little liking to his morals, has she not reason before to have as little?

They appeared too formidable to be chastised; and they were so little discouraged by the failure of their first enterprise, that they again met in arms at Leicester, in order to seize the king, who then resided at Northampton: but Henry, informed of their purpose, took care to be so well armed and attended that the barons found it dangerous to make the attempt; and they sat down and kept Christmas in his neighbourhood [b].

It was easy for the Secretary of State to suggest that at least one reason for the recall was that Montagu must be anxious to return, but that certainly could not have deceived the Ambassador who was, indeed, so little anxious to get home that he remained at Constantinople until the following June.

I faced him, black and bitter, and he was not only to me Jane's husband, the suspicious, narrow-minded ass to whom she was tied, but, much more, the Potterite, the user of cant phrases, the ignorant player to the gallery of the Pinkerton press, the fool who had so little sense of his folly that he disputed on facts with the experts who wrote for the Weekly Fact.

and the old gentleman laughed a low, gentle, happy laugh, that had in it so little of selfish pleasure, that had you only heard him you must have loved him for it.

I was chiefly disappointed, because there was so little of him.

So little time elapsed between the building of the choir and nave that we find no marked difference of style as we proceed westward along either flank of the church.

Let him contemplate the colours he loves so little, Mr Wilder when we are tired of showing them, our lockers may furnish another.

Yesterday I tried hard to let God manage it, but I know I wished He would manage it so as to spare me; it takes so little to pull me down, and so little to destroy my health.

I have always congratulated myself on being so little dependent on others for entertainmentbut never considered how entirely I am dependent on books.

Ah, life is so little, so short!"

Of mere modifiers and abridgers, the number is so great, and the merit or fame so little, that I will not trespass upon the reader's patience by any further mention of them or their works.

She explained to me that such noises were extremely vulgar, and that if my flesh was so little under control that this should turn me sick, the sooner I got over such fancies the better.

He has so little perseverance or steadiness, and indulges in such an erratic, desultory mode of life; but he has made his mark in literature already, and I think he might become a great man if he chose.

The first sun-rays, reflected on a thousand dewdrops on the trees; the chirping of the birds, which already began their matin song; the joyous voice of the cock, which crowed in a most satisfactory and majestic manner in the paddock of her hostess; all these sights and sounds, to which she was so little accustomed, restored her serenity of mind once more.

Like sunflowers in the same garden, the girls in a tribe differ so little from one another that there is no particular cause for discrimination.

[Footnote: Nothing gives a more fragmentary and twisted view of our history than to treat it purely by States; this is the reason that a State history is generally of so little importance when taken by itself.

He spoke his sermon, but so fast, and with so little accent, that I am sure he has often uttered it, for it was like a lesson.

"Can it really be that you have so little sense, after all?

To have got this water for so little you 're absolutely the Senior Wangler.

AFTER MEAL TIME To no other department of domestic work perhaps is so little thought given or so little science applied as to the routine work of clearing the table and washing the dishes after mealtime.

It may be presumptuous for an individual to generalize about civilizations of which he knows so little.