Have a little compassion on my nerves.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He has for many years been a writing subject, and has a large collection of manuscript automatically produced.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

As the silence became painful I concluded to hazard a little conversation on my own part, as I had guessed that he was making overtures of peace.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I was about to say," she went on, addressing me again, "that my sister and I have a large collection of my mother's letters, addressed to my father and to hers.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

After you have a large collection of miscellaneous articles coded (and you can never have too many, if well chosen), numbers—signalled by means of letters, not words—and an alphabet for the spelling of surnames, etc., will require great attention; but patience and perseverance will surmount all obstacles, and without these you had better not attempt second-sight at all.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables

'Thanks for the compliment, fair coz,' said Sidney, not without a complacent cynical pleasure in the knowledge that Raphael spoke truly, that he owed his own immunity from the obligations of the faith to his artistic success, and that the outside world was disposed to accord him a larger charter of morality on the same grounds.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Mr. Astle has at last called on me, but I was not well enough to see him.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

The joining was done in the next room, where the flames of the blowpipes darted and hissed and little clouds of metallic vapour shot sparks into the air.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

I don’t know as you have any legal claim on me because you are my niece.
— from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series by Fanny Fern

Dr. Hall and lady called on me to-day, and I unfolded our prospectus of a Sabbath-school.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

In many tasks we have a like choice of methods.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

He called again at The Poplars a few days afterwards, and was met in the entry by Miss Cynthia, with whom he had a long conversation on matters involving Myrtle's interests and their own.
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes