So she smiled, but the water stood in her eyes; and after a little pause, she said, I will call forth two or three more of the family.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

There is certainly not yet enough material on which to rest a calculation of probabilities, but any one can easily convince himself that on the back there is no question of even a moderately accurate discrimination between warmth and a light pressure so far as but small portions of skin come into play.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Surprised at the gentleness of the animal, and admiring its beauty, as it lay placidly on the grass, she caressed it, crowned it with flowers, and, at last, playfully seated herself on its back.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hippocrates, after a little pause, saluted him by his name, whom he resaluted, ashamed almost that he could not call him likewise by his, or that he had forgot it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[22] For an account of the constitution and activity of the Parte Guelfa at a later period, see Perrens, Hist.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

All these people met, after the performance, in the foyer of the ballet, where Sorelli waited for the arrival of the retiring managers with a glass of champagne in her hand and a little prepared speech at the tip of her tongue.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

So she smiled, but the water stood in her eyes; and after a little pause, she said, "I will call forth two or three of my family.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

But she had begged so hard, and Sallie had promised to take good care of her, and a little pleasure seemed 107 so delightful after a winter of irksome work, that the mother yielded, and the daughter went to take her first taste of fashionable life.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

In this way what formerly seemed to extend through an apparently long period seems now to be compressed into a shorter one.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

As a lady present seemed now to get uneasy at the turn the conversation had taken, we rose up to go.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

After a little pause, she knelt down before the picture of our Lady of the Holy Heart, and spoke to her by all the fanciful and poetic names of the Litany.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"And so you are anxious and frightened, and a little pleased?" said Ingram to Sheila that evening, after he had frankly told her what he knew, and invited her further confidence.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

On the other hand, certain bodies and sources of inland water hold something deleterious to the thyroid, so that whole populations in Europe, Asia and America drinking such water have become goitrous and cretinous, and a large percentage straight imbeciles.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

At the same time, Lambert, at a later period, studied comparative anatomy, physics, geometry, and other sciences bearing on his discoveries, and this was undoubtedly with the purpose of collecting facts and submitting them to analysis—the only torch that can guide us through the dark places of the most inscrutable work of nature.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

After a long period, she was again received at court, and acknowledged innocent of the charges preferred by her assailants.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 1 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

No. 2 carries a small pouch, with the requisite small stores, such as spare tubes, portfires, &c.; and a long portfire stick.
— from The Details of the Rocket System by Congreve, William, Sir

After a long political struggle, freedom was once more triumphant in the Motherland.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

The kindly but changeable Wieland, not really one of the dii majores , but so regarded at the time, had lived there since 1772; Herder, much more nobly endowed, but less amiable and less popular, since 1776.
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas