As a little bitty thing, I remember my father's reading Shakespeare out loud to me, playing word games and speaking in rhyme.

And it helped that Mom was Terra-born, blonde, and a little, bitty thing.

"I figure it goes by the pound and a little bitty thing like you isn't worth as much as a full-figured woman like me."

A little bitty thing, she was.

"Now how would a little bitty thing like you know that?"

Lordy, but she was a little bitty thing.

She was a little, bitty thing, all right.

A little bitty thing like a clothes moth fluttered away while I was looking.

"Uh, Mr. Ortega, why don't they put enough armor on a ship to stop a little bitty thing like this?"

Teasing Marcie, Pete said, "Where does a little bitty thing like you put so much food?