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Examples
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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
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< P style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class = MsoNormal > little,
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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,
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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
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He would see her when she emerged from the fernery, come swaying just a little,
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Newhaven, sipping her glass of water, and spilling a little,
Red Pottage 2004
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“Darling, darling Kootik!” she used the name by which she had called him when he was little,
Anna Karenina 2003
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I have heard nothing since of my head, but a little,
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“Just pour it in,” said the soldier, raising up the boot a little,
Household Tales 2003
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“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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