“Come along, little lady,” said the fat man.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now appeared admirably attired in the disguise of an old woman hobbling about the stage with a faultless crooked stick.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'I am come, at last, lady,' said she; 'I wonder what it is makes my old limbs shake so, to-night.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In a few moments the door opened and a strapping Irishman stalked into the chamber, a lank, lean specimen of humanity, with a Killkenny face, red hair, a fringe of reddish beard under his lower jaw, extending to his ears, and [44] attired in brogans, short pantaloons, and a blue soldier coat, with a grimy clay pipe in his mouth, and battered plug hat on his head.
— from Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

Here it is: 'An immense divan spread itself in width and length and delightful thickness just beneath the big north window, the business window—a divan so immense that three well-fed, well-contented Englishmen could all lie lazily smoking their pipes on it at once, without being in each other's way, and very often did!'
— from At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell

Mr Pitt’s manner changed a little, losing some of the hard ease with which he had talked, as he began to understand the pain it cost the loyal-hearted Squire to receive his impressions.
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard

I infer this because Paine writes, September 23d, to Jefferson from Stonington, Connecticut; and later letters show that he had been in New York, and afterwards placed Thomas Paine Bonneville with the Rev. Mr. Foster (Universalist) of Stonington for education.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

On the other hand American constitutional and legal literature still inculcates and keeps alive fear and distrust of majority rule.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

While we continued gazing at this sight, dark figures appeared moving to and fro before the flames; while others, dancing and capering about, looked like so many demons.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

You heard no shriek of anguish as the tide Of cold and leaden loneliness swept in Upon her gentle bosom, though the fall Of earth upon the coffin of the loved And lost was not more fearful.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, September 1850 by Various

Some with pale faces and bloodshot eyes, some with rubicund complexion and laughing lips, some bantering as if at a fair, some on the ground hailing their fellows on the roofs.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

When he brought her to this apartment she had supposed that, from this day, there was to commence a loveless life such as was so often witnessed in the marriages of convenience with which she was familiar enough in Paris; she had, indeed, told herself that she had escaped one sacrifice only to become the victim of another.
— from Servants of Sin: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton