tinily

Ruth was only certain of her eyes, where the reflected flames flashed tinily.

"No." She smiled tinily, the first since she had entered his car.

The nearest, which were still far above, looked tinily rectangular, like gleam-spilling windows seen from below.

There is no cataloging their meanings, but at the very least they remind us how tinily we loom in existence.

Subsequence hums tinily all round me, erasing my tracks.

Something thin and broken whipped tinily against his neck as the blood sprayed out and the breath was worried out of him.

Maskell's knifepoint played around Allie's throat, dimpling the skin, pricking tinily.

She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly.

Moons were red diamond, the asteroids emerald dust and the comets a tinily beaded fringe of dark carbon fibres, each tipped with a microscopic sphere of white gold.

The blind, pathetic, energetic courage of the train as it steamed tinily away through the patterned levels to the sea's dimness, so fast and so energetic, made her weep.

He looked darkly at us all, nodded the most tinily precise of acknowledgements, and fell heavily into his seat, where he spent the next twenty minutes manoeuvring his leg this way and that, as if positioning a heavy piece of furniture.

Then there were three more of them that came out of the forest, dark in the shadow, and two that fought, tinily, in the glasses, pushing head-on, fighting in front of a clump of bushes while we watched them and the light failed.

The blond shells of the pistachio nuts, with their seductive little green gleaming cracks, repose in a small Sheffield plate dish on a stem, an oval dish which echoes, satisfactorily, elegantly, the shape of the nuts: the surface of its lining is tinily scratched, pitted and polished, golden, antique, dull but shining.