"A bit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood up at the door, and played a German march into the rain after the retreating storm. The hail had passed over his vineyard and he was a ruined man too. Tom did "gry" and was all right. He was a bit disheartened, but he did another job of fencing, and was just beginning to think about "puttin' in a few vines an' fruit-trees" when the government surveyors—whom he'd forgotten all about—had a resurrection ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... pump is?" Benjulia rejoined. "Very well; a pump sometimes gets out of order. Give the carpenter time, and he'll put it right again." He let his mighty hand drop on Ovid's breast. "This pump is out of order; and I'm the carpenter. Give me time, and I'll set it right again. You're not a bit ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins
... of the strong man's powers, Muntar for a long time received its daily thumps stoically; but by degrees the resistance of the old hill declined, and when agents reported that the sheikh's tomb was used as an observation post, 8-inch howitzers got on to it and made it untenable. There was a bit of it left at the end, but not more than would offer protection from a rifle bullet, and the one tree left standing was a limbless trunk. The crest of the hill lost its roundness, and the soil which had worked ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey
... why, Chanito, he knows well that we are Christians, and yet he bewitches us. Wait a bit, ...
— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart
... changed a bit.... His complexion is as fresh as ever.... The eyes are a little tired, perhaps ... ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
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