About the same time Colonel Graham (Lord Lynedoch) was writing to the British Government from Trent that the Austrians, despite their defeats, were "undoubtedly brave fine troops, and an able chief would put all to rights in a little time."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

In this composition the artist has strictly kept to rules laid down by his predecessors, and the result, if a little stiff and wanting in originality, is yet pleasing and restful to look at, presenting a great contrast to the somewhat exaggerated movements expressed in the preceding ones.
— from The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon

As for Mr. Ashby-Sterry, those who object to the nude in art should at once read his lays of The Lazy Minstrel and be converted, for over these poems the milliner, not the muse, presides, and the result is a little alarming.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

The first thing to be done is to place the sprained part in the straight position, and to raise it a little as well.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

not only unknown in war and green in council, but gay, giddy, vacillating; not subtle of wit and resolute of deed, as he who so aspires should be!—Montagu, a vain dream!”—Richard paused and then resumed, in a low tone, as to himself, “Oh, not so—not so are kings cozened from their thrones!
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Hines, of Indianapolis, has already been hit on the head this season by one of the Chicago pitchers, and the result is a long, ragged-looking scar that he will always carry.
— from Base-Ball How to Become a Player, With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game by John Montgomery Ward

“No,” was the reply, “I believe it is doing well enough; Ellis says so;” he paused, and then resumed in a low hurried voice, “Frank, I am going abroad.” “Going abroad!”
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

The Baron paused, and then repeated in a low tone with the utmost deliberation: "I say, if any of these should escape, Commendatore...."
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

The psalms, the prayers, the Litany, and the sermon were all reduced to one chanting sound which paused, and then renewed itself, a little higher or a little lower.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

not only unknown in war and green in council, but gay, giddy, vacillating; not subtle of wit and resolute of deed, as he who so aspires should be!—Montagu, a vain dream!"—Richard paused and then resumed, in a low tone, as to himself, "Oh, not so—not so are kings cozened from their thrones!
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron