There is very little difference between the material given to a hundred average boys and girls at birth, yet one with no better means of improvement than the others, perhaps with infinitely poorer means, will raise his material in value a hundredfold, five-hundredfold, aye, a thousandfold, while the ninety-nine will wonder why their material remains so coarse and crude, and will attribute their failure to hard luck.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Here followed a very learned dispute between the brother and sister concerning the law, which we would insert, if we imagined many of our readers could understand it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I see very little difference between the apparent face of the country here and that of the plains of the Missouri only that these are not enlivened by the vast herds of buffaloe Elk &c which ornament the other.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I See Very little difference between the apparant face of the Country here and that of the plains of the Missouri.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there { 257} is, is very important ."
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Newman wondered very much what could have occasioned this altered behaviour on the part of the collector; but, philosophically reflecting that he would most likely know, sooner or later, and that he could perfectly afford to wait, he was very little disturbed by the singularity of the old gentleman’s deportment.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Varvara lay down beside Sofya a while, and said softly: “I’d make away with my Alyoshka and never regret it.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

276.—THE EIGHT VILLAS.— solution There are several ways of solving the puzzle, but there is very little difference between them.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Vous a-t-il payé?--Pas encore, monsieur.--Je vous le disais bien, s'écria le père, de plus en plus charmé, c'est tout lui!» [Footnote 1: Why subjunctive?] 157.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

But I do see very little difference between the degree of the ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and that in the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so fine, nor the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene’s chappell.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Also as few people know anything about the nutritive value of foods, they stand a better chance, if they eat a large variety, of procuring the required quantity of different nutrients than when restricted to a very limited dietary, because, [Pg 76] if the dietary be very limited they might by accident choose as their mainstay some food that was badly balanced in the different nutrients, perhaps wholly lacking in protein.
— from No Animal Food; and Nutrition and Diet; with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon

[Pg 26] However, they soon forgot to be afraid of me, and laughed and chattered among themselves, very little deterred by my presence, except for giving me a shy glance now and again.
— from The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan

The teacher—a kind-looking young lady—was quite pleased when Mr. Parlin said to her,— "I see very little difference between this and the Portland schools for small children."
— from Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie May

For, in order that a ball should enter the head of a man sitting erect at the angle seen here, of 45 degrees, it would be necessary, not only for the pistol to be held very low down, but in a peculiar position; while if the head had been bent forward, as in the act of writing, a man holding a pistol naturally with the elbow bent, might very easily fire a ball into the brain at the angle observed.
— from The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

He is so very LOVING, dear bird!" "Now hand me the buttered toast," said Nurse Rosemary; "and don't tell me any more naughty stories about the duchess.
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

In the healthy association of the sexes there is very little danger, but in such morbid association there is great danger, the more that the morbid conceals itself under religiosity and the allied phases of sexual perversion.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

On our way once more, in half an hour we stand on the edge of the water-shed, and look down far into the Yaquina Valley, lying deep between rugged and broken hills below.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

There is very little difference between the European Elk and the American Moose Deer, though they are larger in the New World than with us, owing perhaps to the extensive forests in which they range.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

The General was very lively, doubtless because he had got through the evening without the dreaded mishap to his clothes, and was at the same time relieved from the weight of anxiety they occasioned.
— from Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

There was not much to choose between a cowboy and a skinner, and very little difference between Major Ferguson's command and that of Marion and Sumpter.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark