"small" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose.
- The learned gentleman who weeps by the pint on the smallest provocation has not shed a tear these six weeks.
- A woman that deep in a man's thrall could lash out in a jealous rage on the smallest provocation or none at all.
- It would only need a small provocation to put a spark to the powder.
- "Not that Carslake is liable to regard the twin assaults on pride and person as a small provocation."
- We have all an inborn propensity to dislike one another, and a very small provocation will suddenly blow that banked-up furnace into a flame.
- Why did he respond so dramatically to so small a provocation; The cheque could, after all, have been a reward for anything.
- It would take only the smallest provocation.
- A badlands building in such disrepair was prone to collapse on small provocation, and here the falling rock would be devastating.
- My temper worsened, and I began flaring up at the smallest provocation.
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