A white streak of foam followed in the wake of the boat, which, in a few minutes, carried them both to the little island, where they went on shore; but there was only just room enough for two to dance.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

There was but just room enough for them, and not the smallest space to spare.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Leaving just room enough for the play of the oars, she kept alongside, drifting when we drifted, and pulling a stroke or two when we pulled.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Then, feeling with her woman's instinct that she was going to make him angry, she began to sing a popular air that had harassed our ears and our minds for two years: “'Je regardais en fair.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Early in the morning Partridge appeared at the bedside of Jones, ready equipped for the journey, with his knapsack at his back.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The final conclusion is, that no sage or poet ever said that the just return evil for evil; this was a maxim of some rich and mighty man, 336 Periander, Perdiccas, or Ismenias the Theban (about B.C. 398-381)….
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I counted the other day the little ones, up to ten years or so, in a Bayard Street tenement that for a yard has a triangular space in the centre with sides fourteen or fifteen feet long, just room enough for a row of ill-smelling closets at the base of the triangle and a hydrant at the apex.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The final conclusion is, that no sage or poet ever said that the just return evil for evil; this was a maxim of some rich and mighty man, Periander, Perdiccas, or Ismenias the Theban (about B.C. 398-381)...
— from The Republic by Plato

Mr. Justice Robinson entered, followed by 173 Buckstone and the town-constable, Jim Blake.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Sir Moses went to town, communicated with the Chief Rabbi and the Secretary of the Board of Deputies, and addressed a letter to Lord John Russell, enclosing, for his Lordship's perusal, a translation of the letter he had received from Damascus.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Joan rather expected Flossie to be in favour of the war, and Madge against it.
— from All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

They began by forming mere niches, in which there was only just room enough for three or four men to stand huddled together when they heard a shell coming.
— from Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith by Henry H. S. Pearse

But even then they did not seem to realize how dreadfully cruel they had been in suddenly taking away a wild, free creature from the fresh, open air, beautiful woods and trees, and, best of all, joyous freedom, and putting him in a tiny, narrow cage, where there was only just room enough for him to turn round.
— from Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant; and Other Stories by Ellen Velvin

The pioneer steamship had chambers so narrow that there was just room enough for a stool to stand between the edge of the two-feet-wide berth and the wall—mere closets.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

So saying, Sir James rode eagerly forward; Malcolm following, not without wonder at not having been consulted, for though kept in strict discipline by his uncle, it had always been with every courtesy due to his rank as a king’s grandson; and the cousins, from whom he had suffered, were of the same rank with himself.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

By 1734 a dancing-school was opened at Charleston, and in 1760 Nicholas Valois gives notice that he still receives pupils in dancing, and that he has received "40 of the newest country dances, [Pg 181] jiggs, rigadoons, etc., from London, which he proposes to teach." Figure 86.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore

There was just room enough for the two to dance.
— from The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

See, there is just room enough for them to get under the fence.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders