Women whose household work was belated, whose children were strayed, who had used up their nervous strength in waiting and feeling, were now cross and inclined to belittle the affair and to be angry at Arenta and themselves for their lost day.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Is it you who want to belittle your sister?
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Shakespeare's contemporaries-or, at least, many of them-sought to belittle his work in this wise.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson