'I suppose he will be back soon,' he replied; 'he has cut out and left me expecting him back, in an odd way.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then the symptoms ceased for a moment; she seemed less agitated; and at every insignificant word, at every respiration a little more easy, he regained hope.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

But,' she went on a little more eagerly, 'Higgins did not quite tell you the exact truth.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It was not that Mrs. Ned Hale felt, or affected, any social superiority to the people about her; it was only that the accident of a finer sensibility and a little more education had put just enough distance between herself and her neighbours to enable her to judge them with detachment.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Though nothing of the conversation was distinguishable beyond a few disjointed words here and there, a listener might easily have perceived that Fagin appeared to be defending himself against some remarks of the stranger; and that the latter was in a state of considerable irritation.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It is doing things a little better than those about you do them; being a little neater, a little quicker, a little more accurate, a little more observant; it is ingenuity in finding new and more progressive ways of doing old things; it is being a little more polite, a little more obliging, a little more tactful, a little more cheerful, optimistic, a little more energetic, helpful, than those about you that attracts the attention of your employer and other employers also.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A Low Moan escaped him.
— from People You Know by George Ade

His voice died and a low moan escaped his lips.
— from Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery by Absalom Martin

Perhaps, when he had acquired a little more experience, he would not speak so contemptuously of "Jimmy," or any of the rest.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

In her hand is a crumpled scrap of paper, and, as she holds it nearer the light and reads what is written thereon, a low moan escapes her lips.
— from Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch

At Leicester Miss Edgeworth had an amusing adventure:— Handsome town, good shops.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

But, if I have been sad, troubled, without heart-pleasure, at least my efforts have all succeeded.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

"Won't you be a little more explicit?" he begged.
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The wild bee, with his little dark body and his busy bear's legs, was lovely to me, and the creepy centipede gave me shudderings; but it was a pleasant thing to feel so sure that he, no less than the bee, was a little mood expressing himself out in harmony with Designs tiny thread on the miraculous quilt.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Breathing a little more easily, he got up and started up the hill toward the cave.
— from Dick Donnelly of the Paratroops by Marshall McClintock

He was upon the pin-point of hinting that a note of recommendation from me, submitting him to the fair opinion of you and Louise, might enable him to offer the two of you certain somewhat prized civilities not easily obtainable—when I, without the least attempt at hinting, indicated the general direction of my door and gave him a view of my back.
— from The Eddy: A Novel of To-day by Clarence Louis Cullen