"Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I have told Johnson to lock him up in the empty stable an hour or two, just to frighten him, you know.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nalam-angan ku ang lítir dyi, I skipped letter g. 2 go beyond what is normally expected.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At noon we camped three hours and took luncheon at Mekseh, near the junction of the Lebanon Mountains and the Jebel el Kuneiyiseh, and looked down into the immense, level, garden-like Valley of Lebanon.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Take again another head, still more full of sentiment, but of a different kind, a little drawing in red chalk which every one remembers who has examined at all carefully the drawings by old masters at the Louvre.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

All were struck with the stranger's air, all wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretense of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same spot.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

All were struck with the stranger's air, all wondered who he could be, and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretence of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement when the two gentlemen turning back had reached the same spot.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

and the minister took her hand kindly, and looked down into her flushed face.
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Horion would fain have compressed his gratitude for a whole childhood into one kiss, and lay dissolved in the arms of the teacher and in the arms of loving ecstasy.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

Now I'll show you how she starts,” smiled the inventor, opening with a key a little door in the wash-boiler and lighting a match.
— from Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures by Edgar Franklin

Signatura, the thought and knowledge and learning displayed in the whole scheme either prove that the young master rapidly fell into line with the intellectual movement of his day, or that he wisely sought the advice of those who stood at the head of this movement.
— from Raphael by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody

The organisation for military rail-transport in the several States follows on the lines of the system already adopted in the United Kingdom, as laid down in the Field Service Regulations.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

My father had a friend who kept a little dog in Paris, and the creature found her in Milan and died of fatigue next day.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 08, June 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

That afternoon I went with my friend, a peasant farmer near the south end of Kerrera, and lay down in the grassy, bouldered wilderness beneath the cliff on which stands the ruin of Gylen Castle.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

The prince of schoolmen, the Angelical Doctor, writes: "Divine love surpasseth science, and is more perfect than understanding; for we love more deeply than we know, and love dwelleth in the heart, while knowledge remaineth without."
— from Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross

The Babyland game in a more primitive form is known as Little Dog I call you , in which the players also change sides (1894, I, 330).
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein