Gold imped by thee can compass hardest things, Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or ship off senates to a distant shore; A leaf, like Sibyl’s, scatter to and fro Our fates and fortunes, as the winds shall blow: Pregnant with thousands flits the scrap unseen, And silent sells a king, or buys a queen.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

by, in opposition Iyrchaidd, a like the roebuck Iyrchell, n. a young roe Iyrches, n. a roe, deer Iyrchw, n. the roebuck Lamp, n. a lamp Laru, v. to satiate Larwm, n. an alarm Lassog, n. gizzard of a bird; a kidney Lefain, n. leaven Lefeinllyd, a. leavened Lefeinio, v. to leaven; to inbrue; to infect Lefiathan, n. leviathan; a water animal Lindys, n. a caterpillar Lol, n. noise Lolio, v. to babble Lôn, n. a lane; a narrow way between two hedges Lwfer, n. a chimney Lwfio, v. to allow Lwlen, n. a kidney Lwmp, n. a lump, a. box, or buffer Lla, n. that breaks out, that is light Llab, n. a flag; a slip; a stripe Llabed, n. a label; a flab Llabi, n. stripling; a looby Llabiad, n. a slapping Llabiaidd, a. like a looby Llabies, n. a strapping wench Llabio, v. to slap, to strap Llabwst, n. a lank gawky Llabyddio, v. to kill with stones Llac, n. slack; quicksand: a. loose, lax, slack Llaca, n. mire, mud, slop Llacâad, n. a slackening Llacâawl, a. relaxing, drooping Llacâu, v. to slacken; to relax Llacawd, n. a slack state Llaciad, n. a slakening Llaciaw, v. to slaken, to relax Llaciawl,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

But I insisted on taking leave of my wife, whose anxiety was great, before leaving Germany, and begged to be allowed to stay a little longer at least in the neighbourhood of Weimar.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I should like so much to stay a little longer— Mrs. Stockmann.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

You cannot restore Central Europe to 1870 without setting up such strains in the European structure and letting loose such human and spiritual forces as, pushing beyond frontiers and races, will overwhelm not only you and your "guarantees," but your institutions, and the existing order of your Society.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

My eldest sister being yet in the house, and seeing those woeful sights, the infidels hauling mothers one way, and children another, and some wallowing in their blood: and her elder son telling her that her son William was dead, and myself was wounded, she said, "And Lord, let me die with them," which was no sooner said, but she was struck with a bullet, and fell down dead over the threshold.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

And if so, I'll keep up my spirits a little longer.”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from this wide world’s remotest nooks.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Wearied with weeping, she, at length, lay down on her mattress, and sunk to sleep, but was soon awakened by a knocking at her chamber door, and, starting up in terror, she heard a voice calling her.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

First let me say, however, that Phil Robbins and I were treated by the men on the gun-deck more as shipmates and less like boys after our adventure in Valparaiso, although why there should have been any change I am wholly unable to say, for we did nothing of moment, save to show, by our willingness to accompany Benson when he baited the trap for us, that we were more simple than lads of our age ought to have been.
— from With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in the Southern Waters During the War of 1812 by James Otis

For Burns, although born to such a lowly life, and having in his youth so few advantages of education or general culture, might by sheer force of genius have attained as proud a position as any man of his time, had he but learned to [Pg 25] rule over himself in his youth, and not given full rein to those passions which his "veins convulsed," and which "still eternal galloped."
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

Simultaneously with the news from Sardinia a long, long letter from King Theudis arrived.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

She wrote her sister a lying letter, at her husband’s dictation; she said the furniture was all at Howards End, but could be seen on Monday next at 3 P.M., when a charwoman would be in attendance.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

There were, too, the same extravagant alarms, the same wild misrepresentations, the same volunteer enthusiasm on the part of loyal subjects a little later on in the history.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Sarah said, a note of something a little like envy in her voice.
— from A Texas Blue Bonnet by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

One night he had watched hour after hour, because a gentle and favourable wind was blowing, and La Mère de Miséricorde was much overdue; and he was about to lie down upon his heap of straw, seeing that the dawn was whitening the east, and that the schooner would not dare to round Roughley and come to an anchor after daybreak; when he saw a long line of herons flying slowly from Dorren’s Island and towards the pools which lie, half choked with reeds, behind what is called the Second Rosses.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8) The Secret Rose. Rosa Alchemica. The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi. John Sherman and Dhoya by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

I saw a light like all the world ablaze over to the north, and then all the lights went out, and I've been waiting for the last trump to sound ever since."
— from The Doom of London by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

[87] Sumner, a little later, thought that the right to serve on juries and to hold office was among the essential securities of freedom, and Thaddeus Stevens thought that land-ownership also was necessary.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

He seemed to be conscious of this, for he sat by her side a little longer without speaking.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir