I don't do this kind of thing generally —though I may be a little silly.
— from Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas by F. Anstey

We have got the dust together and have formed it, and we are praying that God would breathe into its nostrils that it may become a living soul.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 05, May, 1879 by Various

Thus, we often find knowledge contrasted with faith, and faith at the same time explained to be an underivative or intuitive knowledge:—so that it must be at least some sort of knowledge.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I don't do this kind of thing generally —though I may be a little silly!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various

'There is so much enjoyment that it must be a little sinful.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

"Then it may be a little serious for you."
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle

But something to them it must be, at least so far as they concern themselves to reason about it and contemplate it; but the beasts are wholly exempted from thinking of what appertains not to them; and if they fly from blows, wounds, and slaughters, they fear no more in death than is dismaying to the Epicurean himself.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Thus, in addition to the heat employed in the original reduction, the iron must be at least six times reheated before it becomes a finished marketable bar.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various