Curt's fingers put a little more pressure on the trigger of his gun.

And you love Ahmiri, that black bastard of a servant even a little more, because he's a beautiful man.

A little more than twenty years ago the American people turned an important corner.

Its pretense to operate in the public interest is little more than a sham.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Paula was saddened about what was happening to little girls and vowed to kneel no more in Chapel.

I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

perhaps he was a little more sympathetic to the sides of beef that hung silently from his hooks.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

Back and forth Duclos had to go, between M. De Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke D'Aumont and Jean Jacques again, as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, though still unperformed, took on ever more importance.

Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

You can get this added heating feature for as little as $200 more than the price of cooling alone.

With greater precision he again paced off a location, this time a little more to the left.

I know something that is much more fun that we can do on our little lawn ''.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Moreover, all three representations must be squeezed comfortably into little more than the length Brumidi allowed for each one of his.

The time-span of little more than a month cannot entitle me to pose as an expert on anything I saw.

Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

In the early days of this controversy over the theater one of the interested parties, Stephen Gosson, published a little tract in which he objected mildly to the abuses of art, rather than the art itself.

As a result, it takes a little longer than it would on the outside where the family physician knows about the patient.

There is little doubt that the number of those who wish to serve will be far greater than our capacity to absorb them.

It is no harder to raise big, healthy, blooming plants than weak, sickly little things ; ;

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

Starting from other value premises than Fromm's, some analysts might conclude that the percentages really tell us very little at all, while others might even conclude that the figures are remarkably low.

The effluent BOD averaged 34 mg/l, a little lower than that of the study at Fayette indicated for a loading of 60 lb. Aj.

The roof was about ready to fall in on Diane's little world, but it took nothing less than the Egyptian revolution to bring it down.

One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.

A well-designed, 1200-square-foot house can be comfortably cooled and heated for as little as $128 a year, or $11 a month.

I think the best bet is to go through the society columns of last year and see if any of the grooms match with the obituaries a little later.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

He and Linda settled down to being social leaders, and Linda managed to look a little more beautiful each year.

Central Anatolia receives little annual rainfall with an average precipitation of per year.

Between 1948 and 1957 there were 15 hijackings worldwide, an average of a little more than one per year.

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

Thus there are alignments in all directions which would suggest there is little of astronomical significance, However, ethnohistorical records show that the various directions do have cosmological and astronomical significance with various points in the landscape being significant at different times of the year.

Temperatures vary little throughout the year.

Temperatures vary little throughout the year.

Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year for a total of twenty-three books.

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

" The same year, he starred as little Jackie in the episode " Bang!

In practice, as before the Reformation, many received communion rarely, as little as once a year in some cases ; George Herbert estimated it as no more than six times.

Because very few wells and springs have water throughout the year, the herders leave with the end of the rains, turning over the land to the antelopes, gazelles, and ostriches that can survive with little groundwater.

A subarctic climate has little precipitation, and monthly temperatures which are above for one to three months of the year, with permafrost in large parts of the area due to the cold winters.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

Æthelstan's empire, seemingly made safe by the victory of Brunanburh, collapsed in little more than a year from his death when Amlaíb returned from Ireland and seized Northumbria and the Mercian Danelaw.

He underwent surgery in December that year and started " a little bit of radiation therapy ... as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good ", as he reported in his video autobiography.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

It is in the Negev Desert, therefore it has a desert climate with low humidity for most of the year and little precipitation.

The Earth completes its orbit and the Sun traces its entire path in a little over year | 365 days.