A famous Saturday Reviewer quotes the term applied to a lady: " Eddeva puella homo Stigandi Archiepiscopi .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The two men with the pincers gave a heave, and, scattering the fire this way and that upon the rocky floor, lifted from it a large earthenware pot, heated to a white heat.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

at last exclaimed Professor Hardwigg between two savage growls.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Poor women run about the streets with a little earthen pipkin hanging on their arm filled with fire, even if they are sent on an errand."
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

As it had done before, her [Pg 326] clear sight gazed into the future and beheld the glory that should be; and, like every prophecy her tongue had ever uttered, this, spoken there in the very light of her desolation, as it were, has already been more than verified.
— from The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond

She drew back without a word, and let Eliot pass her, and between Sylvie and her sister he had no more chance to speak to her in the drawing-room that evening.
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"A little excited, perhaps," he joked.
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

"Catch him!" said Nick, with a little excusable profanity; "he went in at one end of such a warren and came out at another.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Poor women run about the streets with a little earthen pipkin hanging on their arm, filled with fire, even if they are sent on an errand; while men of all ranks walk wrapped up in an odd Page 94 sort of white riding coat, not buttoned together, but folded round their body after the fashion of the old Roman dress that one has seen in statues, and this they call Gaban , retaining many Spanish words since the time that they were under Spanish government.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

A dark green cloak of some figured, lustrous stuff; a little green hat with a coquettish leather; gloves fitting nicely; and finally a little embroidered pocket- handkerchief stuffed into an outer pocket of her cloak.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner