Till we be bathed in a living well; ° That is the terme prescribed by the spell.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

His nobler self had said at first, that all this last might be accidental, innocent, justifiable; but once allow her right to love and be beloved (and had he any reason to deny her right?—had not her words been severely explicit when she cast his love away from her?), she might easily have been beguiled into a longer walk, on to a later hour than she had anticipated.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I'll be back in a little while," called Joe, as he hurried off.
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

You have been born in a land which is neither encumbered nor enclosed by the artificial constructions of the mind.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

At first glance Mr. Queed looked as if he might have been born in a library, where he had unaspiringly settled down.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

In this mood she now approached Mrs. Scudder, and, holding up her hand on the door-side to prevent consequences, if, after all she should be betrayed into a loud word, she said, "I thought I'd just say, Miss Scudder, that, in case Mary should —— the Doctor,—in case, you know, there should be a —— in the house, you must just contrive it so as to give me a month's notice, so that I could give you a whole fortnight to fix her up as such a good man's —— ought to be.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He'll be back in a little while with some more misinformation."
— from Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad by John Kendrick Bangs

I'll be back in a little while, so wait here for me."
— from Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster

In 1789, it was enlarged by its front being brought in a line with the adjoining houses, a grass-plot eight feet deep having previously occupied this space.
— from The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge with Notices of its Immediate Neighbourhood by Henry George Davis

It was by a significant coincidence that that great modern science which has man himself for its subject was created by Broca, when he founded the Société d’Anthropologie of Paris in the same memorable year of 1859 which first saw “The Origin of Species.” Man has been brought into a line with the rest of life; a mysterious chasm has been filled up; a few fruitful hints have been received which help to make the development of all life more intelligible.
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

"But, sir," said the boy, apprehensively, "they will both be back in a little while."
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre