45 Verbs to Use for the Word mites

And so farmer after farmer breaks up the old homestead and contributes his mite to the drift cityward.

* PREFACE The author, in placing this little book before the public, feels that in so doing he adds his mite to the useful and timely literature of the day.

But, believe me, he wasn't hurt the least mite, but he was rather surprised-like!

The Saviour said, seeing the poor widow cast her two mites, which make a farthing, into the public treasury, "This poor widow hath cast more in than all they which have cast into the treasury."

Among others I offered my mite of information again.

"You're not eating a mite, Doctor.

Men, women, and children lent a helping hand, some giving a mite and some substantial sums.

Although my chapel is £700 in debt, and my schools, one of 180 and one of 160 scholars, are heavy, very heavy on me, I cannot do other than advise my people to save every mite, buy an acre of land, and by that means be independent, and job about wherever they may be wanted.

Cast in your coins; for God delights When from wide hands they fall; But here is one who brings two mites, "And yet gives more than all.

"And, anyhow, if you did marry the violinist, and you found out afterward you didn't like him, that wouldn't matter a mite, for you could unmarry him at any time, just as you did Father, and" But they wouldn't let me finish.

How hard for him, the stranger's boon to crave, And live to want the mite his bounty gave!

Stella carried him inside, hugging the sturdy, blue-eyed mite close to her breast.

"Sometimes," she writes, "it seems to infuse into my soul a mite of that divinity which filled hers.

They little know how I could love, How I could plan and toil, To swell those drudges' scanty gains, Their mites of rye and oil.

" "I didn't mind the mite," she replied.

At the bottom, a lateral channel or race, running at right angles to the troughs, conducts the waste water in a rapid, bubbling stream down into the feeding-pond, which covers the space of about one-fifth of an acre, close to the river, with which it is connected by a narrow race gated also with a wire-cloth, to prevent the little living mites from being carried off before their time.

I don't like this night prowling a mite, but take the bull's-eye along, and never a bit of light until we are in the storeroom.

I've been mighty lucky in not losing a single pup so far," came the reply over Obed's shoulder; and he might be pardoned for putting just a mite of pride in his tones, for he had accomplished something worth while for a new beginner at the business.

His childlike mentality made him always the same burden as when she had rocked him hour after hour, a scrawny mite of a baby on her breast.

" "Stop an' think how foxes have holes in the ground, into which they c'n burrow when scared the least mite," explained Obed, readily, "and yuh'll see how hard it'd be for a stranger to lay hands on them.

If not and any notice is given of subscriptions as I see you are doing, I beg it may be notified that I send this mite as a reverent agnostic to our common cause of humanity.

" "To thy brother, whom thou didst despise," said the Angel, "to him whose calling, in respect of worldly honor, was the lowest, shalt thou owe this mite of heavenly coin.

It belongs to a family of game birds, but it is a shame to shoot such a mite of a bird for the morsel of meat its tiny body affordshardly one mouthful.

If I sing a little mite too high in the cellar, down comes the roof a-top of me.

As the old lawyer walked slowly home with his hands clasped behind his back he pondered upon the seeming mockery and injustice of the law that forced a lonely, half-demented old fellow with the fixed delusion that he was a financier behind prison bars and left free the sharp slick crook who had no bowels or mercies and would snatch away the widow's mite and leave her and her consumptive daughter to die in the poorhouse.

45 Verbs to Use for the Word  mites