The incidents-sentimental, whimsical, fie-fie-have no other connection or tendency than the fact that they occur to the "gentleman in the black silk Smalls" and furnish him with figures as it were for his performance.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
I ought to be going up for Smalls myself next term, and I haven't opened a book yet, and don't mean to do so.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
We accordingly sailed early in the morning, and steered across for the Smalls Lighthouse, to the westward of which they intended to keep before standing up Saint George's Channel.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston