"See, come here and look," cried the old man.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

much thicker than Miss Anne's; and, in short, her civility rendered her quite as anxious to be left to walk with Mr Elliot as Anne could be, and it was discussed between them with a generosity so polite and so determined, that the others were obliged to settle it for them; Miss Elliot maintaining that Mrs Clay had a little cold already, and Mr Elliot deciding on appeal, that his cousin Anne's boots were rather the thickest.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

And you and I can have a little chat by ourselves."
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

If any one of a clearer head and larger capacity had the misfortune to be suspected of novelty, there was no way to avoid the general persecution of the monks but voluntarily banishing himself.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Constructions having a logical connection are not separated but are treated together.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The child, seeing his father, ran to him and caressed him, as little children used to do, whilst the latter, taking him, weeping, in his arms, no otherwise than as he had brought him forth of the grave, fell to kissing him and returning thanks to his gossip for that he had made him whole.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

If I get shot or wounded, it is the fate of many a better man; and if I escape, I hope to fight my way up to wear a cocked hat and laced coat.”
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

It can have a little cork put in to fill it up. Put the end of the string through a hole near the opening of the cone and your cup and ball is finished.
— from The Playwork Book by Ann Macbeth

For an hour the handsome joust went on, the Earl of Oxford, Charles Howard, Sir Henry Lee, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester challenging, and so even was the combat that victory seemed to settle in the plumes of neither, though Leicester of them all showed not the greatest skill, while in some regards greatest grace and deportment.
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

I have decided to go home in October, so I can have a long, comfortable visit before going to Washington.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

We found it difficult to inspire him with confidence; he at last consented to guide us to the farm of the Cayman, but without slackening the gentle trot of his horse.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

My stay at General Halleck's headquarters was exceedingly agreeable, and my personal intercourse with officers on duty there was not only pleasant and instructive, but offered opportunities for improvement and advancement for which hardly any other post could have afforded like chances.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

It is so because it exhibits on a great scale, and for a long period, the results of those changes which had been the subject of that vehement struggle in the two preceding centuries, and enables us to appreciate, by actual experience, the benefits and evils of those great alterations in civil and religious institutions, which, after so long and severe a contest, had at length come to be thoroughly established.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

“But we can have a little; can’t we, Dad?” asked Ned.
— from Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall; Or, The Motor Boys as Freshmen by Clarence Young

" Guess , darling," encouraged the governess, coiling herself a little closer.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

Rows and rows of large casks placed close together lined the walls, and each cask had a lighted candle upon it embedded in plaster.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone