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  • She should have held her tongue, for he came very close and took hold of her hand and kissed her, very lightly, on her cheek, then said, laughing a little,

    Politics 101 2010

  • < P style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class = MsoNormal > little,

    You Friend Me On Facebook 2009

  • If it trouble them at meal times that flushing, as oft it doth, with sweating or the like, they must avoid all violent passions and actions, as laughing, &c., strong drink, and drink very little,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • They might have been talking, thus, for a quarter of an hour or more, when Monks — by which name the Jew had designated the strange man several times in the course of their colloquy — said, raising his voice a little,

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • He would see her when she emerged from the fernery, come swaying just a little,

    Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

  • Newhaven, sipping her glass of water, and spilling a little,

    Red Pottage 2004

  • “Darling, darling Kootik!” she used the name by which she had called him when he was little,

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • I have heard nothing since of my head, but a little,

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • “Just pour it in,” said the soldier, raising up the boot a little,

    Household Tales 2003

  • “Briefly,” he said loudly and imperiously, rising to his feet and in so doing pushing Porfiry back a little,

    Crime and Punishment 2002

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