Coelius Secundus Curio has written a little book, 'De Amplitudine Regni Coelestis,' which was reprinted not long ago.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

"He calls Boy—I mean Charley," she corrected herself with a little blush, "all sorts of names," and she laughed at some recollection of her own.
— from Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Herbert George Jenkins

she cried hastily, with a little break in her voice.
— from A Colony of Girls by Kate Livingston Willard

Before he rode away he said some cheerful, hopeful words, and looked back at me with the glint of merry mischief in his eyes, threatening to tell Dan Grey that I was losing my good repute for bravery.
— from A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer by Myrta Lockett Avary

Captain Joe made a movement as if to speak, when Sanford, checking him with a look, began, “The superintendent is right so far as he goes, general, but there is another clause in the contract which he seems to forget.
— from Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith