| 1. | The course you suggest would belittle us more than it would annoy them. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | To make Wellington so great is to belittle England. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Poe's humorous stories as a whole have tended to belittle rather than increase his fame, many of them verging on the inane. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Shame on the passions which belittle man Honor to the one which makes a child of hi. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindliness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 6. | Although his work has been belittled because he has chosen exceptional and theatric happenings, yet his real strength came from his contact with Western life. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 7. | Of course this excited a curiosity so vast that it almost belittled the main matter--but the Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors, and through them be transmitted to the whole town, for he refused to part with his secret. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |