Lytle

I pray my Lord to suffir me to tak a lytle of my awin dinner! " ❋ William Morison (N/A)

Ther cut they out a trenche, broade and diepe enoughe to sette vp another lytle tent in: so that the toppe of the tent maye be well within the grounde. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When their children be borne they bring them vp with so lytle coste, as a man would skantly belieue. ❋ Unknown (2004)

As oute of lytle springs ariseth greate fluddes: so now these preceptes of grammer finyshed, and the fyrste order of the Rethorical figures: We nowe come vnto that greate declaracion of eloquence, called of ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

Why so? for the power whyche fortune had geuen vs, it to consume in the punyshement of them whom the same fortune a lytle before had set in hyeste degree, were agaynste reason. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

Catiline is compared to Gracchus, and the estate of the common wealthe to the whole world, & a lytle shakyng to slaughter, fyer and wastyng, and a priuate person to the consuls. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

[Sidenote: Tautologia.] _Inutilis repeticio eiusdem_, is a vayne repeting agayn of one word or moe in all one sentence, whyche faute by takyng lytle heede, ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

Are not (sayth he) two lytle sparowes solde for a farthinge. ❋ Peter Martyr (N/A)

[Sidenote: Catachresis.] _Abusio_, when for a certeyne and proper worde, we abuse a lyke, or that is nie vnto it, as when we say: longe counsel, lytle talke, smal matter. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

Arguing against the King's proposal to style them bishops, Melville used great freedom of speech: 'The nam [Greek: episkopos] being a Scripture nam, might be giffen tham, provyding, that because ther was sum thing mair put to the mater of a Bischope's office then the Word of God could permit, it sould have a lytle eik [23] put to the nam quhilk the Word of ❋ William Morison (N/A)

-- Once more the King argued: 'Men wald be that way [by a temporary appointment] disgraced, now sett upe and now sett by and cast down and sa discouragit from doing guid,' when Melville concluded: 'He that thinks it disgrace to be employed in what God's Kirk thinks guid, hes lytle grace in him; for grace is given to the lowlie.' ❋ William Morison (N/A)

[Sidenote: Miosis.] _Diminutio_, when greate matters are made lyghte of by wordes, as when he was wel beatẽ bi a knaue, that knaue wyll saye he dyd but a lytle stryke hym. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

¶ Wherefore after theyr example obtaynyng a lytle lesure, I red ouer sundrye treatises, as wel of those which wrot long ago, as of other now in our daies: fyndynge amonge them some to haue wrytten ouer brieflye, some confuselye, and falselye some. ❋ Richard Sherry (N/A)

Kydlande is full of lytle hilles or mountaynes, and between the saide hilles be dyvers valyes in which discende litle Ryvvelles or brokes of water, spryngynge out of the said hilles and all fallynge into a lytle ❋ Unknown (1908)

Ten Br. proposes: oft seldan (= _gave_) wære äfter leód-hryre: lytle hwîle bongâr bûgeð, þeáh seó brýd duge = _oft has a treaty been given after the fall of a prince: but little while the murder-spear resteth, however excellent the bride be. ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)

The sepulcre is lyke a lytle house, the which by masons was dydged out of a rocke of stone. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

By one of these three the kynge havynge informacion that I was there in the strete, he marveled thereof, for so much as it had bene tolde hym a lytle afore that I was bothe dead and buried. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

In old age the present poem was composed (st. 60, p. 42-3); 'a lytill newe Instruccion 'to a lytle childe, to remove him from vice & make him follow virtue. ❋ Frederick James Furnivall (1867)

Whan you [Fol.E. ii.] be in your bedde, [1] [f] lye a lytle whyle on your lefte syde, and slepe on your ryght syde. ❋ Frederick James Furnivall (1867)

In wch disposition of the woodes there wil be lytle or noe difference in advantage. ❋ Unknown (1846)