The lamp is burning in my room.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

'Only me, Bill; only me, my dear,' said the Jew looking in. 'Bring in your body then,' said Sikes.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Adv. by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto[It]; however, howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Consequently I am driven to the conclusion that the lady in blue is the man's wife—and you say this is correct."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Why, sold off in a jiffy, and no character, and I might find myself slaved about under a butcher's boy, or worked to death at some seaside place where no one cared for me, except to find out how fast I could go, or be flogged along in some cart with three or four great men in it going out for a Sunday spree, as I have often seen in the place I lived in before I came here; no,” said he, shaking his head, “I hope I shall never come to that.” H2 anchor 10 A Talk in the Orchard Ginger and I were not of the regular tall carriage horse breed, we had more of the racing blood in us.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

I was but a bungling shipwright, yet as I knew the usefulness and even necessity of such a thing, I applied myself with so much pains to do it, that at last I brought it to pass; though, considering the many dull contrivances I had for it that failed, I think it cost me almost as much labour as making the boat.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, 35 taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries; / On such a full sea are we now afloat; /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I repeated this sally to Garrick, and wondered to find his sensibility as a writer not a little irritated by it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But with incomprehensible rudeness, Semyon Ivanovitch persisted in lying in bed in silence, and obstinately pulling the quilt higher and higher over his head.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s all very well for you fellows,” he says; “you like it, but I don’t.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

It was as tough as india-rubber, and the more a piece of it was masticated, the larger it became in the mouth.
— from The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas by Frederick Marryat

"Miss Lindsay, I believe I've found you something which may lead to something."
— from A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh

There still remained, however, a lacuna in Book III, which was not remedied till 1621, when a supplement was added from the pen of Sir William Alexander.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

For now is Palamon in allè wele, Living in blisse, in richisse, and in hele, And Emelie him loveth so tendrely, And he hire serveth all so gentilly, That never was ther no word hem betwene Of jalousie, ne of non other tene.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various

Leaving Ickleton by its chief street, Abbey Street, I entered an open country rising on all sides.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

But let it be; I am quickly ill and well-
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

It is growing too wintry for mamma near the sea, though I like it better in a high wind than in a calm; and a gale is such fun—such a romp.
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Friedrich Wilhelm, from the first, was fairness itself: "Pay me back the money; and let it be, in all points, as you say!" answered Friedrich Wilhelm, from the first.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

Comments of Sokrates thereon 445 To be loved by the Gods is not the essence of the Holy — they love it because it is holy.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host’s wishes in every way.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker