little woman
Example Sentences
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“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
She loved breaking taboos, especially the idea of the little woman at home, cooking, without much more to their lives, she recalls.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023
This is the third remake of the movie, the story of the big male star who plucks the little woman from obscurity and watches her celebrity and relevance rise above his, to tragic consequences.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018
“There was this little woman and she asked me to walk for her,” Imboden says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2018
She pointed to a stall where a wizened little woman was grill-ing meat and onions on a hot firestone.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
