smallness

Example Sentences

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You no more understand what people like mother and like myself have lived through than you understand what the inhabitants of Mars do—the petty shifts, the smallnesses, the queer efforts to make two ends meet!

From The School Queens by Meade, L. T.

It is those indescribable smallnesses in his make-up.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

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 existence.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

It’s just like being in seaside lodgings, when the smallnesses and inconveniences make part of the fun.

From More about Pixie by Groome, William H. C.

It is fitting that men, and especially great men, should suffer through their smallnesses of character.

From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George