"A bit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Not a bit. All you need is a little more ginger. Do it as you showed me. Get that toss of your head ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... the towing torpedo of the boat in front of us in the line fouled a submerged spar, or a bit of wreckage, and exploded right under our bow. 'If we had been a few yards closer we would never have ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... not wanting yere dollars. Will I take payment for a bit of dried venison, when the Almighty freely gives me all the good fish in the river an' the deer in the woods? Go, an' haste ye; yon man is needing ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... when Mr. Higginson's essay "Ought Women to learn the Alphabet?" first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and I was reading some of its keen sarcasms to a gentleman just returned from a tour of Eastern travel, he related a bit of his recent experience in the old city of Sychar, in Samaria. There was pointed out to him as an object of great interest and attention, a remarkable girl. She was the theme of animated discussion throughout all the neighborhood of Ebal and Gerizim—the observed ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett
... home just as soon as mamma can come and get me," she said to herself. "I don't like this place one single bit. No one pays a bit of attention to me, and my dress is ever so much nicer than any one else's. I think Ruby might come and sit by me, instead of staying with her ...
— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull
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