At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was regarded as a kind of festival.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Then must I tell thee a little story.
— from Tales From Scottish Ballads by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

"Tell me, is that the anchored light-ship's siren, Tom, do you think?"
— from Air Service Boys over the Atlantic; Or, The Longest Flight on Record by Charles Amory Beach

Do you understand me?” “I try to, a little,” said Hester, “but it seems all very strange just now.”
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

The two shadows were merged into one as the rocking chair swayed back and forth a moment in time to a low, sweet crooning.
— from Travelers Five Along Life's Highway Jimmy, Gideon Wiggan, the Clown, Wexley Snathers, Bap. Sloan by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

A double line of gaily [Pg 319] dressed girls, bearing baskets of potatoes and pork and fish hot from the hangi , marched in time to a lively song into the marae , and in front of them paraded Hiroki, stripped to a loin-mat, a loaded and cocked double-barrelled gun in his hands, white feathers stuck in his hair, red war-paint on his cheeks and forehead, leaping from side to side, eyes rolling, tongue defiantly protruded, the embodiment of Maori savagery and ferocity.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Meade is tall, thin, a little stooping in the shoulders, quick, comprehending the situation of affairs in an instant, energetic,—an officer of excellent executive ability.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various