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Example sentences for "little good"

  • Take equal quantities of boiled potatoes and turnips; mash together, adding butter, salt and pepper, and mix thoroughly with a little good milk, working all together until quite smooth.

  • Put over a slow fire, in a porcelain-lined kettle; when it begins to melt pour in three tablespoonfuls rich milk or cream, and a little good mustard.

  • But I am persuaded that that which is gotten by men this way doth them but little good.

  • But the misery is, the fear of God is wanting in actions, and that is the cause that so little good is done by those that profess.

  • I trow you would be better for a little good company.

  • Then Margaret embraced her, and this bit of true sympathy did her a little good.

  • However, little good timber is produced by this species on rocky soils.

  • It must have forest conditions or it will do little good.

  • White pine seeds grow in open ground, in old fields, in burnt woods, wherever they reach soil, but hemlock must scatter its seeds in cool, deep shade or they will do little good.

  • When going to table, put in a yolk of egg mixed with a little good cream, a little parsley chopped very fine, juice of lemon, and pepper and salt to your taste.

  • Then add a little flour; mix it well, wet it with a little good broth, and let it simmer for some time, turning it now and then to prevent burning.

  • Bridget tried in vain to stop him; he said the "Little Good People" were calling him.

  • Parboil and chop some potatoes; heat a little good dripping or butter in a frying-pan.

  • Serve in the dish, and pass a little good gravy, or drawn butter, with it.

  • Have ready in a saucepan a little good dripping, well flavored.

  • Chop the cold lamb fine, season, and wet up with a little good gravy.

  • This will answer my purpose; to labour together in a joint work to do a little good.

  • Surely if Mr. Grenville bore me never so little good-will, as a supposed Tory, he must allow this reasoning to be unanswerable.

  • Pour round the toast a little good gravy, and send some to table in a tureen.

  • Take them out of the husk; warm them with a little good gravy, a bit of butter and flour, a taste of nutmeg, pepper and salt.

  • Lay the meat in a dish, with the addition of a little good broth of any kind, and some bits of butter on it.

  • Prepare a little good gravy, and some oysters stewed in it; thicken this with flour and butter, and pour it over the mutton when the tape is taken off.

  • Whenever lie was in trouble, Stock did not shun him, because that was the moment to throw in a little good advice.

  • You have now," said Mr. Worthy, "explained undesignedly the reason why religion does so little good in the world.

  • Another Sunday night her father told Hester he thought she had now been at school long enough for him to have a little good of her learning, so he desired she would stay at home and read to him.

  • They all knew how to calculate to a minute what time to be down in a morning to let out their lank hungry beasts, which they had turned over night into the farmer's field to steal a little good pasture.

  • Don't say anything; either way, talking will do little good.

  • All that Mr. Vincent wants, he says, is a little good advice.

  • Mr. Tufton takes such an interest in his young brother; all that he wants is a little good advice--that is what the minister always tells me.

  • The fact is, it's a comfort to escape from Dunbude for a while and get down here to feel oneself once more, in the only true sense of the word, in a little good society.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    green vitriol; little amused; little boat; little care; little conversation; little danger; little faster; little fish; little gasp; little gold; little grated; little group; little inclination; little lamb; little laugh; little missy; little paper; little pony; little puss; little puzzled; little scream; little spirit; little tired; little while; single light; talk business