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/lˈɪtəl baɪ lˈɪtəl/ Listen

noun

Little n.

That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. "Much was in little writ." "There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance."

A small degree or scale; miniature. " His picture in little." "A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. " Stay a little."" "The painter flattered her a little." By little and little, or Little by little, by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.

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"Little by little" Quotes from Famous Books

... poured the hot fat into, the tin mould, first fastening in the wicks, then shut up the mould and left it to grow cold as quickly as it would; all this, and many other particulars which I have long since forgotten, she told us; and little by little we learnt too ...

— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey

... not talk—because he kept it a secret all to himself that this came upon him. They told me at the hospital that it was overwork and worry, and that he had only one chance in a hundred. But I sat by his side, Marjory, night and day, and coaxed him back. Little by little he grew stronger—all except his poor eyes. It was then he told me the truth: how he had tried to ...

— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... Little by little, but without loss of time, her perspicacity penetrated the disguises, although not to the motives that impelled the plotters. She centered her thoughts on the old, white-locked pianist, who silently listened to all the parties ...

— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas

... character took place. As the Mongols and the Mandchus in China suffered themselves by degrees to be conquered by the superior civilization of the people whom they had overrun and subdued, so the Hyksos yielded little by little to the influences which surrounded them, and insensibly assimilated themselves to their Egyptian subjects. They adopted the Egyptian dress, titles, official language, art, mode of writing, architecture. In Tanis, ...

— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson

... of Edith, whom his gratitude for the life she had bestowed had made the mistress paramount of his soul, to give much heed to any one but herself; and it was only by dint of hard questioning that Roland drew from him, little by little, an account of the causes which had kept him in the vicinity of the travellers, and finally brought him to ...

— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird

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