Smallness

Examples

• Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The smallness of the house, said she, I cannot imagine any inconvenience to them, for it will be in proportion to their family and income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Or again, suppose two objects to be relatively great and small, these ideas of greatness and smallness are supplied not by the sense, but by the mind. Plato. The Republic.
• He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The smallness of the probability is compensated by the greatness of the evil; and the sensation is equally lively, as if the evil were more probable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Perhaps just at present he may be undecided; the smallness of your fortune may make him hang back; his friends may all advise him against it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But is this equally true of the greatness and smallness of the fingers? Plato. The Republic.
• Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Fred had known men to whom he would have been ashamed of confessing the smallness of his scrapes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Checker: Walter