Then suddenly turning to me in a resolute way, he said: “Doctor, won’t you be very good to me and let me have a little more sugar?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Yet, seeing you desire your child to live, Thanks, but you work against your own desire; For if I could believe the things you say I should but die the sooner; wherefore cease, Sweet father, and bid call the ghostly man Hither, and let me shrive me clean, and die.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"You may have a very smart coat," he said, "but you would be a great deal better off if you had a little more smartness inside your head and less on your ribs, the way I am.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Give me thy hand; And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

I am not blaming Miranda exactly, but I do think she might have a little more spunk sometimes.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

‘There’s plenty more of it at the same shop,’ said Mr Swiveller, by turns advancing and retreating in a threatening attitude, ‘a large and extensive assortment always on hand—country orders executed with promptitude and despatch—will you have a little more, Sir—don’t say no, if you’d rather not.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

So to my wife’s chamber, and there supped, and got her cut my hair and look my shirt, for I have itched mightily these 6 or 7 days, and when all comes to all she finds that I am lousy, having found in my head and body about twenty lice, little and great, which I wonder at, being more than I have had I believe these 20 years.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Lastly, consider it is a passion which I highly approve.” “La, madam,” says Sophia, “you come upon one so unawares, and on a sudden.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The day after the wedding, as Arthur was going home from work, he saw Ross on the lofty seat of a dogcart, driving toward him along lower Monroe Street.
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips

Europe Area: total: 70,280 sq km land: 68,890 sq km water: 1,390 sq km Area-comparative: slightly larger than West Virginia Land boundaries: total: 360 km border countries: UK 360 km Coastline: 1,448 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: not specified exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time Terrain: mostly level to rolling interior plain surrounded by rugged hills and low mountains; sea cliffs on west coast Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Carrauntoohill 1,041 m Natural resources: zinc, lead, natural gas, barite, copper, gypsum, limestone, dolomite, peat, silver Land use: arable land: 13% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 68% forests and woodland: 5% other: 14% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Vespasian himself proceeded to occupy Egypt and thus cut off the grain supply of Rome while his ablest lieutenant, Mucianus, set out for Italy.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

She had, on my arrival, sent me a message, imploring my mercy, and reminding me that whatever might be her errors, she was still the lawful wife of my father, and she trusted that respect to his memory would induce me to allow her sufficient to maintain her as Lady Musgrave should be.
— from The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago by Frederick Marryat

"If you can do the last two things you [15] have already learned much," said Stepan.
— from Our Little Hungarian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

I’ll gin him a little, my Snow-ball; then he’ll rasp away like a young one; won’t you, my old one?
— from The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! by W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

She had a little money, she could go on living like this.
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus

“From the Via di Santi Giovanni e Paolo we came out into a small square by a church, which has a little marble ship in front of its porch.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

“Then bring it here, and let me see it.
— from A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.