1, to produce all the public decrees of the Romans in favor of the Jews, with his excuse here for omitting many of them, we may observe, that when he came to transcribe all those decrees he had collected, he found them so numerous, that he thought he should too much tire his readers if he had attempted it, which he thought a sufficient apology for his omitting the rest of them; yet do those by him produced afford such a strong confirmation to his history, and give such great light to even the Roman antiquities themselves, that I believe the curious are not a little sorry for such his omissions.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Felicia, at any rate, had never repented of her choice; she was greatly in love with her husband, and had the pleasant consciousness that his taste—fastidious, critical, and not a little sarcastic—found in her nothing that was not absolute perfection.
— from Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society by Cunningham, H. S. (Henry Stewart), Sir

"Sometimes a girl chooses a name and later she doesn't like it.
— from A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods by Jane L. Stewart

The brigade won the hill and held it just before midnight, but the battle for the crest ebbed and flowed for days with terrific violence, we never giving up possession of it, though it was stormed again and again by an enemy who, it is fair to admit, displayed fine courage and not a little skill.
— from How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by W. T. (William Thomas) Massey

At the railway station at Braga, in the outskirts of the city, a noisy, assertive little steam-train of several carriages is waiting in the street, and with much puffing and whistling, it carries the travellers up the slope into the narrow thoroughfares of the town.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

To sail before the wind, save in very light airs and with a small sail, requires a great deal of care and not a little skill.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill