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within little of
e. within little of: within a short distance or time of; close to (a place, time, quantity, state, or doing or being something). Now literary and rare.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. ix Landed for a purpose at the pyle of Fowdrey within lytle of Lancastre.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. xviii. §1. 311 S. Hierome made this argumente within litle of twelue hundred yeeres paste.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1005 The selfe same night within litle of midnight,..sodainly they heard a maruelous sweete harmonie of sundrie sortes of instrumentes of musicke.
1606 Will of Edm. Withypoll in Extracts Wills from Reg. Prerogative Court (Stowe 784) (a1778) III. f. 29 To my wife Eliz. for her dower..all my land in Walthamstowe & Leyt...wch is wthin little of CC mrc by the yere.
1643 R. Vines Let. 1 Dec. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1865) 4th Ser. VII. 344 The bench could not presently determine the case according to Mr. Jenners desire, who would not stay for an end of it till the morrow morneing, the tryall being within little of night.
1700 S. Pepys Let. 13 June in Memoirs (1828) V. 331 I am sated with the world, and am within little of being prevailed upon..to bid so fair an adieu to it, as to [etc.].
1725 tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. i. i. 42/2 He was within little of takeing his..Departure for the other World.
1823 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1819 12 App. ii. 227/2 The income of the British and Foreign Bible Society..was within little of a hundred thousand pounds.
1829 T. Smith tr. G. de Villehardouin Chron. Conquest Constantinople 42 The army..was within little of utter ruin.
1884 in Sel. Judgments & Rulings Court of Judicial Commissioner & of Special Court Lower Burma 1871–1892 (1907) 293 Such a wound that it must have been within little of causing death.
1892 tr. G. Perrot & C. Chipiez Hist. Art in Persia iv. 253 The atesh-gah has had to make itself smaller, and descend to within little of the ground level.
1905 tr. T. Gautier Mademoiselle de Maupin Pref. p. vi He pushes chaste susceptibility as far as anthropophagy, or to within little of it.
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