He had been ominously heard of, through the play-bills, as a faithful Black, in connection with a little girl of noble birth, and a monkey.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In the field of Buddhism we have a luxuriant growth of new and strange species of colossal weeds that overtower and seem to have choked out whatever furze of original Buddhism there was in Japan, while in the domain of {141} Confucianism there is a barren heath.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

‘In his Annals he unfolds a long gallery of national portraits.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I steamed round quickly, and soon got into the city, threading the streets with a large group of naval captains who had joined me.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And the Cid rode up to the door, and took his foot out of the stirrup, and gave it a kick, but the door did not open with it, for it was well secured; a little girl of nine years old then came out of one of the houses and said unto him, O Cid, the king hath forbidden us to receive you.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

This the sacred philosopher observed, when he said: “The words of the wise are like goads or nails driven far in.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Only tonight I heard a little girl of nine say: "I wish I were a boy and were sixteen years old—I'd marry Ann" (her nine-year old companion).
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The Telugus send a little girl out naked into the rain with a burning piece of wood in her hand, which she has to show to the rain.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

George Curry, now a member of Congress from New Mexico, who had been a captain in his regiment before Santiago, was then an official of the civil government of the Philippines, and later Governor of New Mexico, by appointment of Mr. Roosevelt: “Stick to Taft, George” or words to that effect.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

On that same visit Lafayette presented the youngest child, Britannia, a little girl of nine, with a lovely little desk, now in the National Museum in the loan collection of her grandson, Walter G. Peter.
— from A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter

Christianization and Romanization instilled into the souls of the race the germs of romanticism which rapidly overspread the old Germanic paganism with a luxuriant growth of new ideas founded on new ideals, and, great as that poetry is, it shows everywhere a contrast and a conflict between two different states of existence.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

He had received a Bible from a little girl one night in a house that he was robbing, but was too full of professional engagements at the time to follow her [414] advice and read it.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

A desire for fresh air seized me; therefore, feeling faint, I took a liqueur glass of neat brandy, and then descended to the big marble entrance-hall that always echoed so dismally to my lonely footsteps.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

“At Antrim in Ireland a little girl of nineteen (nine?) years of age, inferior to none in the place for beauty, education, and birth, innocently put a leaf of sorrel which she had got from a witch into her mouth, after she had given the begging witch bread and beer at the door; it was scarce swallowed by her, but she began to be tortured in the bowels, to tremble all over, and even was convulsive, and in fine to swoon away as dead.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

Hope, a little girl of nine, and her big brother Lewis, are orphans living in an isolated farm-house, all in all to each other.
— from Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In one stone cabin, very well built and plastered, standing sidewise to the road, with doors on either side, we found the house apparently in charge of a little girl of nine or ten years, a weird but pretty [pg 105] child with very delicate well-cut features, who lay couchant upon her doubled-up arm on a low bed in a corner of the main room, and peered at us over her elbow with sparkling inquisitive eyes.
— from Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert

When, after days of steady traveling, I would chance upon a little group of natives hidden away in some dense thicket, it seemed to me that they must be fairies, not real.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

In 1901 the ship Erik left Mr. Peary, with a large group of native helpers, near Cape Sabine.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

Whatever odium, then, may be attached to the violation of a natural law , cannot be attached to the action of a superior force , making itself felt amongst lower grades of natural forces.
— from The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler