We therefore represent six fighting men; if we should meet a little troop of enemies, equal or even superior in number to our own, shall we charge them, Raoul?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

We went one day to the picture-dealer in whose shop Stroeve thought he could show me at least two or three of Strickland's pictures, but when we arrived were told that Strickland himself had taken them away.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

A sickly man a little thing offends, As brimstone doth a fire decayed renew, And makes it burn afresh, doth love's dead flames, If that the former object it review.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

'Yes; he is going to send me a line three or four times a week with his address for the next day or two.'
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He sent me a letter the other day requesting I would accept forty or fifty dollars, as I must be in want of money.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

And if the publishers (excepting Barnum) had ever shown me anything like thanks or kindness for gratuitous zeal and interest which I took, I could page 208 p. 208 have greatly aided them.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

Master Bertie was collecting small matters, and looking to our arms.
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman

After stating some other conditions, the document thus concludes: "And so may a little trace of help to the young heroic soul struggling for what is highest spring from this poor arrangement and bequest.
— from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle

They were large animals of a yellow-brown colour, with shaggy manes, and long tufts of hair growing out of their breasts, and hanging down between their fore-legs.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

When Blanche sends Mignon a little token of love and esteem, Mignon might eat a Charlotte Russe as a proof of her gratitude, and range from a Russe up to a moderate lunch, according to the value of the gift.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Walter succeeded with difficulty in collecting the remnant of his scattered multitude, and led them on the way to Constantinople.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous