“Then if all this is true, and you came down with Sir Henry and his company, you must be a loyalist?
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

It would, of course, take two or three days to gather in all the horses on Sinkhole range, and the restless lot in the corral yonder might be a large or a small part of the entire number down there.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

His uncle was still more damped by this than by the former observation, and he replied peevishly,— ‘I think, young man, considering your destitute circumstances, you might be a little more grateful for my friendship.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt

"Could you move back a little?"
— from Consequences by E. M. Delafield

If you lived in the country you might be alarmed late in the evening by hearing the tramp of feet round your house.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

Or again when he hugged her or kissed her on the nape, she would call: “You must be a little boy, or very like a little boy, whoever you are.
— from The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty

So now, so far as he’s concerned, you must bend a little, a very little––and you’ll be able to hang the remaining three.”
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

Call your men back and let none others come aboard!
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

But it's pulled down,' objected Conrad. 'Yes, of course, I know that; but the cellar is there still, and in one corner of that cellar your mother buried a little box with all sorts of precious things in it.
— from The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War by Anonymous