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  • There are about thirty boarders, some of them little bits of things -- Edith calls them 'tinies' -- who have been sent home from India where their parents couldn't keep them any longer.

    The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

  • Books mentioned in it I believe to be now here (and indeed, except five or six _tiny_ articles, have _seen_ them all, in one or other of the three rooms where my Books now stand, and where I believe the insignificant trifle of "tinies" to be): all these I can expect will be punctually attended to when the time comes, and proceeded with according to Norton's scheme and yours; -- and if any more "tinies," which I could not even remember, should turn up (which I hardly think there will), these also will

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • On his estate, olders (late teens to 20s) give youngers (younger teens) and tinies (12 to 13 and below) their drugs to sell or hold.

    Top boy: stories of Hackney's young drug dealers 2011

  • Blindfold the kid (as well as appropriate for the age, you know, less for tinies).

    They Say It’s Her Birthday | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Rebecca is concerned about the impact on the children of being taught all in one room with tinies.

    Tiny school wants one for the roll 2011

  • One of the reasons that I have a great deal of hope for the future, however, is neither the ‘bigs’ nor the ‘mediums’ but rather the ‘smalls’ and the ‘tinies.’

    Mustard-seed sized agencies 2008

  • In Caledon we have been welcoming to all our visitors, be they human, furry, neko, fae, dragons, tinies, or whatever form they take.

    Archive 2007-06-01 ZenMondo Wormser 2007

  • In Caledon we have been welcoming to all our visitors, be they human, furry, neko, fae, dragons, tinies, or whatever form they take.

    Beastly Rumours ZenMondo Wormser 2007

  • And today's playing was with tinies - these are the proverbial inchies - one inch square.

    Archive 2007-07-01 katelnorth 2007

  • They aren't so handy when grandchildren asked her as tinies if there were dinosaurs around in the Black Ages.

    gillpolack: I just dug a deep grave for myself in Fl gillpolack 2009

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