DONALBAIN, younger son of Duncan BANQUO, Thane of Lochaber, a general in the King's army FLEANCE, his son LENNOX, nobleman of Scotland ROSS, nobleman of Scotland MENTEITH nobleman of Scotland ANGUS, nobleman of Scotland CAITHNESS, nobleman of Scotland SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces YOUNG SIWARD, his son SEYTON, attendant to Macbeth HECATE, Queen of the Witches The Three Witches Boy, Son of Macduff Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor A Sergeant A Porter An Old Man The Ghost of Banquo and other Apparitions Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murtherers, Attendants, and Messengers SCENE:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I myself heard a little girl once say to a servant, "My mamma has been scolding me finely this morning, because her hair was not dressed to please her."
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Washington was introduced to Mrs. Boswell, and his imagination was on the point of flitting into the vapory realms of speculation again, when a lovely girl of sixteen or seventeen came in.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I have worked hard at her head and brain— “And now,” said he, standing up after a long gap of silence, during which we had each pursued our own thoughts, “what do you think?
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As Bullibrain had once remarked, when there are many doors it’s a wise man who knows which is the right one to open; and this I found to be the case when I attempted to take my departure from the icy domain of his frigid Majesty, Gelidus, King of the Koltykwerps, for there was a baker’s dozen of galleries, in each of which, upon exploring it, I came, after a tramp of half a mile or so, up against a lofty gate of solid ice, curiously carved and fitting the end of the gallery as a cork does a bottle.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

"Amelia had better write a note," said her father; "and let George Osborne see what a beautiful handwriting we have brought back from Miss Pinkerton's.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

With that a great noise rises aloft in diverse contention, even as when flocks of birds haply settle on a lofty grove, or swans utter their hoarse cry among the vocal pools on the fish-filled river of Padusa.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

In the evening his Generalship came, with six attendants, which compos'd his family; a large guard of soldiers, a number of horses and baggage-waggons, the yard and house in confusion, and glitter'd with military equipments.
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

Our next witness is an old man, familiarly called ‘Old Patsy’, who is a native of the Island of Aranmore, off the coast from Galway, and he lives on the island amid a little group of straw-thatched fishermen’s homes called Oak Quarter.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

A God who, in his love, ordains everything so that it may be best for us, a God who gives us our virtue and our happiness and then takes them away from us, so that everything at length goes on smoothly and there is no reason left why we should take life ill or grumble about it: in short, resignation and modesty raised to the rank of divinities—that is the best and most lifelike remnant of Christianity now left to us.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I HOW LUCIE FOUND A FATHER A little more than a hundred years ago there lived in London (one of the two cities of this tale) a lovely girl of seventeen named Lucie Manette.
— from Tales from Dickens by Charles Dickens

Men and women are not only the beings they appear to be at any one moment of their lives, they are not single separate atoms like grains of sand.
— from The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

A workman at the Connecticut place of one of the experts who has revised this book had a bit of land not more than 100 X 200 feet, and for several years cleared $100 a year by raising eggs and broilers, doing the work together with that of a little garden of small fruits before and after working hours The chickens fed largely on green food in summer.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

Eggs —Four to six, of a light greenish or smoky-blue, with lines, dots, blotches and scrawls on the surface.
— from Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 by Various

I—I think I'm getting a little glimmering of sense.
— from Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs

where, seated in a great arm-chair, was a lady of gorgeous and dazzling beauty, with a little girl of some seven or eight years old at her knee, nearly as beautiful as herself.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Through an open door one saw a table at which sat a little girl of six, bending over a book with the unmistakable air of a child learning something uninteresting.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

She was clothed in a long gown of shimmering greenish satin, the décolleté bodice
— from The Curse of Pocahontas by Wenona Gilman

In the hollow lay the village: a little group of sleeping houses round the white church-steeple; and behind it lay his mountain, but it was like a cloud, a shapeless monster, very far away.
— from The Path of Life by Stijn Streuvels