It will not be difficult to prove, that such delegates will act like men subjected by fear, and make their children and servants endure their tyrannical oppression.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The deputy was a little man, sandy, freckled, and frail, and his efforts, ludicrously eager, threw the court-room into a fit of unseemly laughter.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Certainly we could do with a little more sunshine in England than we get.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Various

The next morning, before Dorothy was awake, Lady Mottisfont stole to the girl’s bedside, and sat regarding her.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

"They will disappear with a little massaging," she said to herself.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

I scarcely knew what happened; and yet it appeared to me for a moment that something pressed against the door with a low moaning sound.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

“But, dear,” and Eunice rose, and stood by her husband, “I do want a little money,” she fingered nervously the breakfast napkin she was still holding.
— from Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells

No doubt, with a little more skill in the manufacture, the whole might, as in Bengal, be made of the quality called flores ; but such improvements cannot be expected till a new race of people inhabit Central America.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

So I'll say instead, "Think of me, dear wife, and love me still."
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

I don't want to kill more than I can help, lad, for I hate taking life without there is a necessity for it, but we can do with a lot more skins before we are stocked."
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty