They miss her "littleness" - her insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Transitus...] Reference
Take it which way you will, the leading idea is that of "littleness;" moreover, there is no propriety in the word "creep" as applied to. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850] Reference
Brewer wonders if we have been captured by "littleness" and warns that "Phariseeism dwarfs the soul, paralyzes the heart and vitiates sympathy and love.". From Wordnik.com. [Stoned-Campbell Disciple] Reference
Professor Flint's usually candid mind has had a Creator, it nowhere displays the "littleness" of prejudice in so marked a degree as it does when "measuring his attributes.". From Wordnik.com. [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference
The direful struggles of vain littleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
Thus he showed, combined in his person, that excess of grandeur and of littleness which is acquired from the practice of royalty. ". From Wordnik.com. [Louis Philippe Makers of History Series] Reference
"littleness," for I knew that I was still but a very small shaver -- smaller even than my age would indicate -- though I had a well-knit frame, and was tolerably tight and tough. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
Phœbe felt her own efforts shrink into littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
I know its freedom from selfishness, and all littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Small nails indicate littleness of mind, obstinacy, and conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
It's one of the peculiarities of the littleness of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
But we must guard against an impatience which is our littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
The highest genius lives above the littleness of making a career. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Man and his littleness perish, erased like an error and cancelled. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
There is as much essential greatness in littleness as in largeness. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Pleasant illusions are, as a rule, weapons against meanness and littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Sink into the sweet and blessed littleness, where thou livest by grace alone. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
The literal meaning of this paragraph stamps the littleness of the man's mind. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
With this affectation of superiority, the Duke combined the littleness of envy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The littleness of the Lilliputians and the greatness of the giants appeal strongly to children. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
I marvelled how it might last; for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
We see and know him in all his greatness and all his littleness, in all his weakness and all his might. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Then ensues an impression of man's littleness, emptiness, insignificance, utter, mechanical limitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Pharisee with a deep sense of their own worthlessness and littleness gnawing at their spirit all the while. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
This very littleness of detail has made his Memoirs the most extraordinary picture we possess of the times. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
They doubted and feared, and again and again were they rebuked for the slowness and littleness of their faith. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
To the house of newness and littleness all in the Procession march on, but we go not until the evening of the sixth day. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
There he lay awake for an hour, still troubled, oppressed by a vague feeling of the littleness and insecurity of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
Meanwhile we have our innate defects, the first of which arises from the vastness of geography and the littleness of politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
I have been wondering at the littleness of the denier, and now this same denier is making the world wonder by his majestic boldness!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
He says: 'In the littleness of children didst Thou, our king, give us a symbol of humility when Thou didst say: Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In that vast chamber, with its remote ceiling, its majestic pillars, its distances and sonorous echoes, her littleness was pathetically accentuated. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
For the moment was one which called forth the greatness or the littleness of those who met it, and which heightened that contrast of contemporary lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
By continual pondering over the footsteps of the Seekers, the Sought-for seemed to grow to vast proportions, and the Found to shrink to inappreciable littleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Upon this spiritless blank Robert depicted, with a morbid genius and the stimulation of his unnatural surroundings, all that was reminiscent of his uncle's littleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Can human nature contemplate a scene so grand that reaches so far beyond the grasp of mind, and not feel its own insignificance, and the littleness of selfish actions?. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Thus their littleness, rather than their greatness, was apt to impress a daily observer like Selwyn, and to give to his remarks an aspect of depreciation and of pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
James repeats in disbelief at this rambling rant, then reminds Charles testily, "O aspiring satirist, the humiliation of Voltaire, 'Beware the littleness of your faith. '". From Wordnik.com. [Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01] Reference
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