The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But later when one woman failed to keep a lecture engagement because her husband wanted her to go somewhere 171 with him, and another because her husband was not willing she should leave home, she again poured out her sorrows to her friend: There is not one woman left who may be relied on, all have "first to please their husband," after which there is but little time or energy left to spend in any other direction.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He was a young man who had been to Nagasaki and knew a little English, both of which facts in those days gave him a title to be considered travelled and learned, but he had no authority to speak on behalf of his [pg 236] prince.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

One of the daughters knew a little English, but when we spoke to her she hid her face in her hands and laughed and blushed.
— from Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell

He now found that he knew a little English but that he had lost his stenography as well as his professional skill at typewriting.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

At such times it was only natural for him to stare ahead into the black depths of the woods that confronted them, stretching away hundreds of miles to the mysterious north, until finally they ended on the shore of that inland fresh water sea now known as Lake Erie, but at that time going with the others under the general name of the Great Lakes, though some called it after the tribe living on its shore.
— from The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois by St. George Rathborne

This battallion was to charge the center and to move first, Capt. Eylar was to charge down the pike with two companies, I and M, Capt. Hall was to cross the creek at its mouth and charge on the right with three companies, H, K and L. Everything being in readiness, the word “forward!” was given.
— from History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry by R. C. (Richard C.) Rankin

said Keedah; a large elephant boy, as he looked up and saw Umboo on his mother's back.
— from Umboo, the Elephant by Howard Roger Garis

London is perhaps never to be doomed to the curse of the sky-scraper, as it is known in America; the results of such an innovation would be too dire to contemplate, but like every other large city, it is under the spell of twentieth century ideas of progress, and the results, a score or more years hence, will, beyond doubt, so change the general aspect and conditions of life that the spirit of the Victorian era in architecture and art will have been dissipated in air, or so leavened that it will be a glorified London that will be known and loved, even better than the rather depressing atmosphere which has surrounded London and all in it during the thirty-five rapid years which have passed since Dickens' death.
— from Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

But I will not answer you thus; we have been kept apart long enough by angry words.
— from The Jews of Barnow: Stories by Karl Emil Franzos

KNOWLE, a little embarrassed because MRS.
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne