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Definition of Even a little
1. Adverb. To any extent at all. "Are you in the least interested?"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Even A Little
Literary usage of Even a little
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"... patches of scrub and even a little woodland occur almost at the snow line in
favored places. ..."
2. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ... (1800)
"... to the time for cutting lambs, let them be about five or fix months old, or
even a little later in ..."
3. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"I have sun enough on this new year, yes, and even a little more, to give away in
ease any body wanted it. But I must tell you something about ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1900)
"But it is delightful to observe the serene joy with which she displays it to her
friends, certain of sympathy, expectant of even a little envy. ..."
5. The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer by George Tomkyns Chesney (1871)
"... even a little common-sense, and this great calamity would have been rendered
utterly impossible. Too late, alas! . We were like the foolish virgins in ..."
6. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"This indicates that even a little money is still a matter of great moment in Italy.
Signor del Bello, who, I believe, is also a nobleman, haggled with us ..."
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