Meaning of little toe-nail | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The other questions which have been proposed to both him and me, are—‘Will you vote for the ballot?’ ‘Will you vote for an extension of the suffrage?’ ‘Will you vote for shortening the duration of Parliaments?’ To all these he answered in the affirmative. But how absurd, I again exclaim, to ask the foot, say rather the little toe-nail or a pairing off it, what it will do? Why not ask the head? Ask Lord John Russell himself what he will do?”

“The rocks as big as yours, are all solid gold—so solid that, as yet, they have never been broken to afford sordid ambition a piece as big as your little toe-nail; […]”

“Now a woman isn’t usually so particular about her husband’s feet as to notice whether the little toe-nail or the big toe-nail is gone, or whether the lapping of the toes includes and covers a deformity or not, […]”

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