Read full poem →Oh, lost his way? You say ’e’d lost his way?
Well, maybe that might tire ’im just a bit,
But oh, he’d find it! Oh, trust him for that!
Dictionary Entry
To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.
In a Sentence
“Could you move that up a bit?”
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Poetry examples for “a bit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →How long’s that to stay there, I’d like to know?
Here, take your milk, and there’s a bit o’ bread
For both on yer. Don’t want it? Ah, it’s bed
Read full poem →sion of the brain?--Not
a bit of it, my dears merely the prime
minister of Siam in native
Read full poem →Or something in your coffee to make your stomach froth?
Or a bit of asafoetida hidden in your pie?
That's a gentlemanly nigger or he'd black your eye/'
Read full poem →a gun.
It's a bit too much of a good thing, I say.
They are going the other road, look. And see her
Read full poem →The smallest "Robe" will fit me
And just a bit of "Crown" --
For you know we do not mind our dress
Read full poem →The first of these sayings was probably a bit of popular rime, of the
character quoted in Shakespeare's _King Lear_, iii. 2. 81. Shakespeare
Read full poem →after one or two such honeymoons you'd soon get tired of 'im,
specially now you're gettin' on a bit in years, and may be you'd
settle down quietly after that. Or if you ain't reg'lar set on
Read full poem →And passer-bye along the level rows
Stoopt down and whipt a bit beneath his nose.