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  • In my experience, a little sexual release here and there makes everything just a lit-tle more manageable.

    Jill Di Donato: Holiday Sex: Do's and Don't's Jill Di Donato 2011

  • One day, when the lit-tle old wom-an was bak-ing gin-ger-bread, she cut a cake in the shape of a lit-tle boy, and put it into the ov-en.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • They would have been a ver-y hap-py old coup-le but for one thing, -- they had no lit-tle child, and they wished for one ver-y much.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • As soon as the ov-en door was o-pened, the lit-tle gin-ger-bread boy jumped out, and be-gan to run a-way as fast as he could go.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Hutch-ess Putch-ess bring the Dutch-ess Mom-nay's going to have a ba-by Not a boy Not a girl But just a lit-tle ba-by.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • The St. Nicholas retelling, which was printed syllable by syllable for young children to sound out, starts like this: There was once a lit-tle old man and a lit-tle old wom-an, who lived in a lit-tle old house in the edge of a wood.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • On a new album, Dance World Dance (Verve), he writes with Ellington-like lushness for a lit-tle big band, unveils catchy tunes reminiscent of Thelonious Monk and raises holy hell in the spirit of Sun Ra.

    A Bodacious New Voice From Jazz's Far Side 2008

  • Though there's likely lit-tle difference in data security, Americans might yet be reluctant to give their credit-card numbers to someone 8,000 miles away.

    Help From Far Away 2007

  • Little things to you; but not quite so lit-tle to me now, as I have managed it.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The wet weather also did lit-tle to dampen the spirits of those who came to entertain the crowds, including Knights in Battle, who carried out re-enactments.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

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