1
Steve somehow seemed a little loth about letting the lovely little gems pass out of his possession.
2
He was little loth thereto.
3
He was a little loth, for the sake of all the pathos of Bates's story, to suggest the suspicion that had recurred.
4
Pausing till she caught his eye, which seemed a little loth, she thought, to look her way, she observed, with perhaps unnecessary distinctness:
5
In one of these rare communicative moments he said of little Loth that he crossed the equator at least once a week and didn't mind.