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  • Gerrard is described as tall and well set up, but his complexion "swart or blackish, his face large, his cheeks sticking out and somewhat hollow underneath," his hair long unless recently cut, his beard cut close, "saving littell mustachoes and a littell tuft under his lower lippe," his age about forty.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume II

  • A 'Letter of Intelligence' sent from Sluis says that Charles is 'much loocked upon, but littell respeckted.'

    Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887

  • So saying, she very politely spit on the carpet, and shrugged her shoulders: "Mais, tenez, mademoiselle, de porter has shew him into de littell anti-room next to de salle à manger; dare you vill find him."

    Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel 1810

  • To my son Izaak I give all my books, (not yet given) at Farnham Castell and a deske of prints and pickters; also a cabinet nere my beds head, in w'ch are som littell things that he will valew, tho of noe greate worth.

    Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton Izaak Walton 1638

  • Spaniardes: For as much as I have saide, he that assaulteth, hath more disadvauntage then he that defendeth: because the fowle weather hurteth him not a littell, being in the dominion of others and minding to make warre.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Slowe and accustomed thinges, be littell regarded of them.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Almayne of littell quarters of woodde after the facion of a grate of

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • This is what happened to parents Craig and Kimberley Cartin at a Mexican restaurant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where they received the receipt which had 'Thankyyou littell f*****' written on it.

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  • This is what happened to parents Craig and Kimberley Cartin at a Mexican restaurant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where they received the receipt which had 'Thankyyou littell f*****' written on it.

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  • I say by such weake, simplle meanes of soe littell valine, & so littell & easy labor & skill, that I may say with Artephus, 200: page, it is of a worke soe easy & short, fitter for women & yong children then sage & grave men; but these thinges I write to your Worshipp, onely to giue a hinte of them to your selfe, who may command more of me by word of mouth.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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