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Small letter   /smɔl lˈɛtər/   Listen
Small letter

noun
1.
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.  Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule.






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"Small letter" Quotes from Famous Books



... are delineating as it were a likeness of the soul, it is reported that on this occasion when Caesar was making much exertion and a great struggle against Cato, and the attention of the Senate was fixed on both of them, a small letter was brought in for Caesar from the outside. Cato attempted to fix suspicion on this matter, and alleged that some of the senators were disturbed at it and he bade him read the writing, on which Caesar handed the letter to Cato who was standing near him. Cato read the letter, which ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... Ive an arrand with you, cried Kirby; heres the good people of the State have been writing you a small letter, and theyve hired me ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... immediately spotted from the fortress were correspondingly high, and the big gun in the fortress was pretty certain to overwhelm the majority of them at least. It is evident that the circumference {GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA} offers far more chances of hiding than the circumference ABC, but a still more powerful factor in favour of the new big howitzer is the practical ...
— A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase • Hilaire Belloc

... done. Tell him so kindly, and don't let him send the manuscript. I have seven on hand now, and barely time to read my own,' said Mrs Jo, pensively fishing a small letter out of the slop-bowl and opening it with care, because the down-hill address suggested that a ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... spelled a word wrong, and I see you have one or two capitals where there should be a small letter; and that last sentence is not perfectly grammatical," he said. "You must let me correct it when you are done, and then you must ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley



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