thou art not gone- O speak to me!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

When the Czech Deputies of our regenerated nation expressed themselves during the Franco-Prussian war on the international European problems they solemnly declared in their memorandum of Dec. 8, 1870, that "all nations, great or small, have an equal right to self-determination, and their complete equality should always be respected.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

" She eats tremendously, and never goes out; she calls her husband "Pa." She is quite content to roll leisurely from her rocking-chair in the nursery to the dining-room table, and thence back again, year in and year out.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

He brought with him this mysterious masked prisoner, whose secret it was apparently not deemed advisable to intrust to a new governor of Sainte Marguerite.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris

Nothing can be more happily expressed than the deep shady retirement of the wood; there are nice gradations of shades, which is the very character of retirement, and Dorothea is herself in it, not a bright figure in a black mass—and good is the figure too, but the feet are unfinished.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

But our nation is fully aware that no peace can be permanent except a peace which will abolish old injustice , brutal force and the predominance of arms, as well as the predominance of states and nations over other nations, which will assure a free development to all nations, great or small, and which will liberate especially those nations which are still suffering under foreign domination.
— from Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimir Nosek

It would therefore appear that a new ground of supply must be sought.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

But these are not quantitative, but relative; things are not great or small absolutely, they are so called rather as the result of an act of comparison.
— from The Categories by Aristotle

And there are numerous groups of Senators, each a kingly specimen of what might be a real man if there was not so much pickled dignity [10] oozing from his stilted countenance and pose.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

They were sailing along far up in the heavens, away out of danger, when the attention of the young ones was attracted to a nice, gentle old swan seated happily among a body of geese that were evidently having a good time and abundant food.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt