small wonder
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And small wonder that he wanted to write a memoir stripped of the form’s obvious scaffolding and joints: no declarations of trauma, little effort to make his life exemplify something bigger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
It’s small wonder fiction’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, faced the savage Hound of the Baskervilles amid the nocturnal mists of a mire.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024
It is small wonder that Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola feels everyone outside the club is waiting, and hoping, for the Norwegian to stop scoring.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
It's small wonder Seutonius was eventually banished from Rome.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022
It is small wonder that the idea of setting sail for an unknown land grew less and less attractive to him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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