Owen, destroyed competition here in Berkeley when your branch store drove the three small groceries out of business.
When you squeezed out the three small groceries here in Berkeley by virtue of your superior combination, you swelled out your chest, talked about efficiency and enterprise, and sent your wife to Europe on the profits you had gained by eating up the three small groceries.
To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and the common, infinitesimally
small elements by which the masses are moved.
The
small servant looked hard enough at it with her hungry eyes to see every shred of it,
small as it was, and answered, 'yes.'
"'Half a million,
Small?' he gasped, looking hard at me to see if I was in earnest.
Near to this stream there is a
small mountain of mica slate, including garnets.
The only other animal which we saw in any number was a
small fox: I suppose this animal preys on the mice and other
small rodents, which, as long as there is the least vegetation, subsist in considerable numbers in very desert places.
In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however
small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude.
After that the peasants went home, and as they were entering the village, the
small peasant also came quietly in, driving a flock of sheep and looking quite contented.
In our diagram the line of succession is broken at regular intervals by
small numbered letters marking the successive forms which have become sufficiently distinct to be recorded as varieties.
Such another
small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough selfapprobation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:
At one end he built a fireplace of
small stones from the beach.