Towards evening, the weather became very stormy, and he hastened on as quickly as he could, to get shelter; but it was quite dark by the time he reached a little lonely church which stood on a hill.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And now the two ladies separated, infinitely more to the delight of Sophia than of Lady Bellaston, who would willingly have tormented her rival a little longer, had not business of more importance called her away.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“As if I'd leave her now!” thought Pollyanna, as she climbed the stairs to her room a little later.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

He evidently did some thinking, for when Anne went up to her room a little later she heard him calling her name softly.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Page 206 Page 207 It was while I was spending a few days in the dwelling of Mr. C., a Scottish immigrant, that he received a long letter from his friends in Scotland.
— from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell

Having been four times defeated in the Commons on the Catholic question, he tendered his resignation, and Lord Liverpool at once declared that without his assistance he could not continue the struggle.
— from Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

"Have you got it on the papers," he said, in a curiously even voice, as though he recited a lesson learned by rote; "have you got it on the papers that Dan Webb had got at the rum, an' was lost through bein' drunk?"
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

Take four eggs and beat them very well, put to them four spoonfuls of fine flour, a little milk, about a quarter of a pound of sugar, a little nutmeg and salt, so beat them very well together; you must not make it very thin, if you do it will not stick to the apple; take a middling apple and pare it, cut out the core, and cut the rest in round slices about the thickness of a shilling; (you may take out the core after you have cut it with your thimble) have ready a little lard in a stew-pan, or any other deep pan; then take your apple every slice single, and dip it into your bladder, let your lard be very hot, so drop them in; you must keep them turning whilst enough, and mind that they be not over brown; as you take them out lay them on a pewter dish before the fire whilst you have done; have a little white wine, butter and sugar for the sauce; grate over them a little loaf sugar, and serve them up.
— from English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery by Elizabeth Moxon

And now they had reached a little landing-place, which ran out a few feet into the river, and was strewed thickly with cowslips and violets.
— from Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow

Without entering into a detail of what passed at this last interview, the impression of it upon my mind was, that his regret at losing life was principally the regret of leaving his art; and more especially as he now began, he said, to see what his deficiencies were; which, he said, he flattered himself in his last works were in some measure supplied.
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

They had received a long lesson from old Jack and from the doctor too.
— from Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

As long as the Hebrew remained a living language, that is, the language of the masses of the people, this outline alphabet was sufficient for all practical purposes.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows