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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

... of a thread. Indeed, they had come to talk so every night. At first it had been a few words only, and Silvia's unconsciousness and her sincerity in her intention to follow her mother's will had imposed silence on the young man. But little by little he had ventured, and she had understood; and within the last week there had been no concealments between them, though Silvia still resisted all his prayers to change her resolution and ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various

... entertainment. 'It's splendidly done,' they say, when you've laid bare a little of the boundless misery. 'It's quite Russian. Of course it's not real at all, at any rate not here at home.' But you always make a mark on some one or other, and little by little the food after all becomes bitter to their taste, I think. Perhaps some day I shall be lucky enough to write in such a way about the poor that no one can leave them out. But you yourself—what's your attitude toward matters? ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... comer. But the simians will attain to a fine descrimination in love, and this will be their path to the only spiritual heights they can reach. For, in love, their inmost selves will draw near, in the silence of truth; learning little by little what the deepest sincerity means, and what clean hearts and minds and what crystal-clear sight it demands. Such intercommunication of spirit with spirit is at the beginning of all true understanding. It is the beginning of silent cosmic wisdom: it may lead to ...

— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.

... with farm truck, so that folks came from all about to buy them and doctors too, for such things weren't sold so much in shops in those days as they are now, and so this place came to be called the Herb Farm. After that it was sold off, little by little, until the garden, wood lane, and orchard is about all ...

— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... that had elapsed since the Treaty of Arras, there had been great changes in France in the character both of the realm and of the ruler. Little by little the latter had proved himself to be a very different person from the inert king of Bourges.[8] Old at twenty, Charles VII. seemed young and vigorous at forty. Bad advisers were replaced by others better chosen and his administration ...

— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam

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