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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