little child
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Confronted with his realistic, blinking, speaking face, she felt “scared … like a little child again.”
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
“Then you switch perspective and be this little child … and you see a big adult who tells you all of these things.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Ms Hooper said Pugh was destined for the big screen: "It was quite extraordinary for somebody of her age - it wasn't like watching a little child on the stage."
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
“It is like a little child holds a dying bird in his hand, and all he does is laugh. This is how we are treating Mother Earth.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2022
He saw a little child stumble and fall and the mother bend and yank him up, and he thought about home, about his little cousins and his parents and Anulika.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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