They talked so much, so long, so often, that, out of the very multitude of their words and rumours, grew at last some intelligence.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And the visible embodiment of my adoration was the head master, Mr. Harold Hartshorn, a handsome, clean-shaven, well-set-up man of (I should judge) thirty-five years of age, rather grave, a little stern, and very dignified.
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

For answer Rafferty gave a little shove with his foot and the turntable began to revolve slowly.
— from On the Iron at Big Cloud by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The Black Book , published originally in 1820 and 1823, and afterwards reissued, gave a list, so far as it could be ascertained, of all pensions, and supplied a mass of information for Radical orators.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

Now of course she has heard the minister define Robert's crime, as he would call it I suppose, so she thinks she can use the whole argument," replied Grace, a little scornfully.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

Jacky pointed to a rising ground at least six miles off.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

And Rose gave a little shiver as she thought of it.
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott

One of the gladiators is said to resemble more an English prize-fighter than a Roman gladiator; at least such is the opinion of the pupils and partisans of Thorwaldsen , who cannot forgive Canova his certainly very blamable vanity, that he should have placed his work, the only one of a modern in a museum of antiques.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr