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Example sentences for "how little"

  • How little he was a master of mere style may be felt at once by comparing his plays with those of Calderon.

  • How little is the difference in denotation, how great the difference in suggestion!

  • The distinction between the two types depends chiefly upon how much or how little of his entire story the author chooses to tell.

  • How little we are, and how much we might and should be.

  • How little we do, and how much we might and should do.

  • How little we know, and how much we might and should know.

  • How little of the earth, after all, I said, lies within the limits of my fences.

  • How little, after all, learning counts in this world either in books or in men.

  • I marked how firm, slow, brown, the old man was, how little obtrusive in my field.

  • How little we may come to know Romance by the cloak she wears and how humble must be he who would surprise the heart of her!

  • No matter how little poetic, how little articulate he is, the song rises irrepressibly in his heart, and he turns aside from his task with a new glow of fulfillment and contentment.

  • Urge the use of the dredge in the Tropics; how little or nothing we know of the limit of life downward in the hot seas?

  • My own mind is decided on the question of the origin of species; but, good heavens, how little that is worth!

  • How little we know what we are and what is before us!

  • Dear, good father, how little I understood you.

  • Speaking of Rome reminds me how little I know of that city, and it's a burning shame, too, for I spent a month there.

  • He evidently had no thought of a successor to Saul till this command came; and when it comes, how little it tells him!

  • How little we need to care about any payment that the world can give for anything we do!

  • How little we shall care for money, for men's praise, for getting on in the world!

  • She would have liked to account to Beaton in this way for a course which she suspected he must have heard their comments upon, but she did not quite know how to do it; she could not be sure how much or how little he cared for them.

  • But if he went back it was also clear that he must go back with intentions more explicit than before, and now he had to ask himself just how much or how little he had meant by going there.

  • How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us!

  • It is remarkable how few events or crises there are in our histories; how little exercised we have been in our minds; how few experiences we have had.

  • How little does it avail us to study the outward world, if its greatness inspire no reverence of its Author, if its beneficence awaken no kindred love towards our fellow-creatures!

  • How little it signifies what are the special duties to which we are called, how much the spirit in which we do them!

  • Writing to her mother from Endsleigh on November 15th, she says: How little I thought on my last birthday how it would be before my next.

  • Ah, how little is there in worldly possessions, be it large or small, to compensate for a troubled, self-accusing spirit!

  • How little, how very little of the world's happiness, after all, flows from the possession of money.

  • With such a man as Leonard Jasper, holding the position of head of a family, how little of the true home spirit, so full of tenderness and mutual love, is to be expected!

  • How little, after all, did any one know of Gideon Vetch?

  • How little character there was in her face, how little of anything except that indefinable allurement of sex!

  • After all, how little, how very little she knew of John Benham.

  • How little I imagined such a joy was in store for me when I came out this afternoon!

  • How little, bless her, she knew what stuff men are made of!

  • And as farther our back-searching glances prevail, Like the emmets, "how little we are in our eyes!

  • In ashes round about, How little he supposed the truth Would soon be sifted out.

  • How little it avails to know the theory of wisdom and folly, right and wrong, etc.

  • How little can I say of the blessings of a contrary state!

  • How little pleasure I had in anticipating this journey, while those formidable things lay between!

  • And in dreadful contrast, how languid, how sporadic and interrupted, how reluctant when called upon for service and sacrifice, how little operative in our lives is the love we bring to God!

  • How much you have lying at hand; how little of it you take for your own!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural college; fear lest; good garden; how far; how little; how many; how much; how often; how she; how the; how they; how you; however great; however humble; however little; however much; however small; later chapter; military operations; plain words; remember hearing; size and; sudden sense; thing spoken; third class; whom shall