Wang Ch'eng also died soon after his father, leaving a son, known in his infancy as Kou Erh, who married a Miss Liu, by whom he had a son called by the infant name of Pan Erh, as well as a daughter, Ch'ing Erh.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

During that time she had acquired the French language, a slight knowledge of music, a very limited acquaintance with the history of her own country, a ready memory for prayers and litanies—and her manners.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

[70] take away that thing from my head, if not, behold I swear to you that I will tear you to pieces with my teeth; I will trample on you, tear you limb from limb, and so kill you: Oh! take that thing off, and lay upon me instead six large sacks full of stones, they will not be so heavy.'
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

Besides this Caravánseraï there are forty large and small kháns, and one hundred and eighty shops, all the work of Sinán; the mosque in the market is an old simple building; the houses are all faced with red bricks, the water of the wells is a little thick, but the air is good.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

In very fact, little as she knew it, she could not have defended herself better than by this humble question, throwing the whole guidance of her conduct upon her aunt.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

For, little as she knew it, Waveney was fast asleep.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

On the narrow bed lay four loaves; a small kitchen range and a table crammed with cooking-pots left scarcely space to turn round.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Corsica by Ernest Young

But her state was a mockery now; for Lady Anne, she knew, was with her husband, loudly boasting that within three or four months she would be a queen, and already playing the part insolently.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Mrs Benson followed, looking and saying kind things, and her niece bustled about to make the tea and toast the bread.
— from How a Farthing Made a Fortune; or "Honesty is the best policy" by C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Bowen