Meanings of little nothings in English

He was too busy wolfing his food to react to my little nothings.

There were little nothings, punctuated by trills of feminine laughter.

Lady Emily enjoyed the drive very much, and said a great many pleasant little nothings.

I have said so many little things to women in my time, so many little nothings.

Tell me all the little nothings and nowheres.

She had come back a bit tired out by the thousands of little nothings she had already done.

And she told her mother of the gifts she was bringing home, the little nothings given her by the guests.

At times she lets drop hints of knowledge concerning little nothings that are none of hers, just to mystify folks.

She pressed his hand when he first greeted her; she made him remain near her and whispered to him little nothings.

And yet, when he began to put things together, little silences, little looks, little nothings, which all together might make something.

Nightwine's plump hand dipped into a wooden salad bowl filled with crunchy little nothings from the lower orders of planet life.

He knew all the genus and species of small-talk, and when it came to compliments and pretty little nothings, he was without a rival.

The earl's smiles and the earl's teeth, when he whispered naughty little nothings to pretty young women, were phenomena at which men might marvel.