It stands in the corner of the poor field of wheat, which is full of great unsightly stumps, like earthy butchers’-blocks.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Every lady in the train tried to get up some little extra bite for us to eat on the way back.
— from Capt. W. F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts, As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Wild West of Fifty Years Ago by William F. Drannan

Had their recent appeal fallen dead upon the country and yielded no fruits, they would have been inclined to despair of ever reaching success in the great undertaking so long entrusted to their care."
— from History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick L. (Frederick Loviad) Harvey

The garden looked like a motionless forest of enormous and mis-shapen lilies all of ice; a garden under some lunar enchantment, a lifeless paradise of Selene.
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

Oh, Madam Helseth, you might give us some little extra dish for supper.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

My work had been doubly monotonous for some time past, and I began to think it time to get up some little entertainment with my unknown friends, the Cliftons.
— from Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens

“Go, uncle?” said Louise eagerly, and then checking herself.
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

You will stay to supper, will you not, Rector, and I will tell them to give us some little extra dish.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 by Various

But I have been gathering up some loose ends, and I think I know where to tie them together.
— from The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele

'Oh, music— we don't go in for music!' said Geordie, with clear superiority; and while he spoke Laura saw Miss Steet get up suddenly, looking even less alleviated than usual.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James