During this time nothing new occurred in the camp at La Rochelle; only the king, who was bored, as always, but perhaps a little more so in camp than elsewhere, resolved to go incognito and spend the festival of St. Louis at St. Germain, and asked the cardinal to order him an escort of only twenty Musketeers.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

By the wilderness of casks that I had walked on long ago, and on which the rain of years had fallen since, rotting them in many places, and leaving miniature swamps and pools of water upon those that stood on end, I made my way to the ruined garden.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

‘Sarah,’ said Brass, ‘hold your tongue if you please, and let me speak.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

So banish from your mind all doubt and uneasiness; let a generous confidence in me take place; and let me see it does, by your cheerfulness in this day's solemn business; and then I will love you for ever!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

‘Get on a little faster; put a little more steam on, ma’am, pray.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

What sweet shall we have today, dear—COUPE JACQUES or PECHES A LA MELBA?" She dropped the MENU abruptly, with a quick heightening of colour, and Gerty, following her glance, was aware of the advance, from an inner room, of a party headed by Mrs. Trenor and Carry Fisher.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Like all men who have grown up in society, Prince Andrew liked meeting someone there not of the conventional society stamp.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The fine pila are like moderate sized hunting spears, and they are carried along with the former sort.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

His plays alone (leaving mere science out of the question), contain more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To-day when the driver clucked up his horse and quickened his pace a little, Mark said, 'The fellow's got the notion that we were in a hurry.'"
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

You see Mrs. Haygarth was not young, as I was about to observe when my daughter interrupted us; and she was perhaps a little more steadfast in her adherence to the newly arisen sect of Wesleyans than was pleasing to her husband, although he consented to become a member of that sect.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Give me some paper and let me sketch the dialogue.
— from The Pot Boiler: A Comedy in Four Acts by Upton Sinclair

“Perhaps a little more so,” added the prince, lighting a cigarette.
— from Sport Royal, and Other Stories by Anthony Hope

The whole party hid under the trees; and as the cars were also hidden at a distance, the German fliers turned tail, disappointed; besides, the anti-aircraft gun which we'd been told about, and had seen on our way to the convent, was potting away like mad, so it wasn't healthful for aeroplanes to linger merely "on spec."
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

But I would warn you from thinking that in such solemn moments there sweeps across the brain a paltry pageant, a Lord Mayor's Show of bygone things, like the cavalcades of future heroes who descend from frescoed or sculptured wall at the bidding of Ariosto's wizards and Spenser's fairies.
— from Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee

Pity he doesn't put a little more smartness into his business affairs."
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

Pequet And learned men should be condemned when they Dissect live dogs to study 'bout the lungs.
— from The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Victor Hugo