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Example sentences for "little time"

  • Let me remind you, then, of what we were saying a little time ago," he went on.

  • But these are the thoughts which came to me only a little time ago.

  • You spoke, a little time ago," she continued, "of some great crisis with which your country might soon come face to face.

  • We give you, I fear, little time; but we know that such is your own wish.

  • Oh, my Lords, we pass along the path of life, the best of us but a little time marching in the sunlight between gloom and gloom, and it is during that march that we must be judged for the future.

  • So great is it, that I pray you, men with hearts and minds like my own, to extend to me, as a further measure of your generosity, a little time to think it over.

  • But my raptures were not lasting: that very letter which in a manner re-established my tranquillity, in a little time banished my peace.

  • Compose yourself, sir,' said Clennam, 'and take a little time to think.

  • She seemed to entreat him for a little time.

  • I think, father, I require a little time.

  • Take a little time--count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram.

  • Sometimes Little Dorrit was employed at her needle, sometimes not, sometimes appeared as a humble visitor: which must have been her character on the occasion of his arrival.

  • Either because she had a cold, or because it suited her face, she wore a rich white fillet tied over her head and under her chin.

  • Messieurs," cried Madame Bouvet, "there is still a little time for a siesta.

  • It wouldn't take me but a little time to run into Harrodstown or Boone's Station from here, and fetch a party to follow ye.

  • Davy, I'll larn ye a trick worth a little time," said he, whipping out a knife.

  • In a little time, I observed the noise and flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign in a windy day.

  • I remember once, only a little time ago, there was a cheap excursion to London.

  • It took a little time to understand that, and then he laughed, and his muscles relaxed, and he went on again.

  • He in a little time, detected Perry in a new plot; and by dint of a little chastisement, and a great many threats, extorted from him a confession of all the contrivances in which he had been concerned.

  • Finding interest to obtain holy orders in a little time after, he left the kingdom, hoping to find a settlement in some of our American plantations.

  • A vehicle of some kind was evidently drawing nigh; in a little time it came alongside of the place where lay the fallen tent, and stopped suddenly.

  • Within a little time I had won his confidence to such a degree that he informed me that the grand wish of his heart was to be possessed of two hundred thousand pounds.

  • After gazing at the horse-racing for a little time, feeling myself somewhat tired, I went up to one of the tents, and laid myself down on the grass.

  • Those who came in from the adjacent country spent some little time in placing certain blue and white blankets over their horses before they proceeded to indulge their desire to view the interior of the house.

  • Be patient for a little time, when you can go abroad openly, and with honor.

  • I waited a little time in order to recover myself, determined not to vex M.

  • He was not new at the trade and was confined some little time.

  • Only for a little time, however, did it seem so.

  • We'll just stroll about for a little time.

  • They're willing enough to give you a home command, but I have asked that it should be left over for a little time, so as to leave you free.

  • Wait but a little time longer," Thomson answered cheerfully.

  • I don't think he needs any fresh trouble exactly," Thomson remarked, "but suppose we leave him alone for a little time?

  • The state of my cloak showed that it had been falling thickly for some little time.

  • He had to wait a minute before his thoughts would come to order; with a little time, the proper answer would be evolved by the slow automatic movement of the rusted mental machinery.

  • Perhaps it was that which had made her look paler than usual for some little time.

  • All this had to pass away in a little time; I had chosen my profession, and must meet its painful and repulsive aspects until they lost their power over my sensibilities.

  • He told the First President and De Mesmes that they were beguiled and that they would see it in a little time.

  • As there wanted a little time to reconcile them, I thought it was our only way to keep fair with M.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little apart; little beyond; little bunch; little chap; little consequence; little dance; little fish; little foot; little gesture; little giant; little green; little hard; little husband; little lemon; little mare; little more; little nervous; little panel; little pleasure; little sigh; little sign; little speech; little supper; little surprise; little tour; you solemnly swear the testimony you