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Definition of Smallnesses
1. smallness [n] - See also: smallness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smallnesses
Literary usage of Smallnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"But all have some religion, some ideal end for life — all aim at raising man
above the sorrows and smallnesses of the present, and of the individual ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... to be the sources of influence :—what cowardice lurked under the mask of that
impertinence which brow-beat the world,—what infinite smallnesses ..."
3. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"O full of sweetness, crispness, ease, Compound of lovely smallnesses, Accomplished
trifle,—tell us what To call thee, and disgrace thee not! ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"O full of sweetness, crispness, ease, Compound of lovely smallnesses, Accomplished
trifle,—tell us what To call thee, and disgrace thee not! ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... golden couplets are disclosed," You are still " he of the rose and the violet," "
Л fool of sweetness, crispness, ease, Compound of lovely smallnesses. ..."
6. General History of Civilization in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire by Guizot (François), Caleb Sprague Henry (1882)
""It brings into broad relief the smallnesses of the great Napoleon ; the intrigues
and scandal? of court-life under the First Empire; the jealousies of the ..."
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