"I could have half the garrison with me, and that door would offer you little protection."
As his common-law wife, she has a right to a little protection.
Well, a little protection from someone he could trust would do for a starter.
A little protection, that's small price to pay for happiness.
All I could do today was to give you a little protection in the interim.
They play under a system that offers no security and little protection.
By June she must have money enough to give her at least some little protection against misfortune.
We imported it, so to speak, to give us a little protection in the field.
So I decided it wouldn't hurt to put on a little protection.
She opened the door and stood back to gain a little protection from the biting cold.