‘I was not aware of its being the custom to apprentice young persons to—’ ‘Idleness,’ Mr. Bounderby put in with a loud laugh.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Sometimes when I read the papers from the old country, I pretty near run away,’ he confessed with a little laugh.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

With adjectives, the accusative is commonly that of extent: so with altus , high , lātus , wide , and longus , long , sometimes with crassus , thick .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It therefore ordains, that all servants and labourers should, for the future, be contented with the same wages and liveries (liveries in those times signified not only clothes, but provisions) which they had been accustomed to receive in the 20th year of the king, and the four preceding years; that, upon this account, their livery-wheat should nowhere be estimated higher than tenpence a-bushel, and that it should always be in the option of the master to deliver them either the wheat or the money.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“So,” she said, with a little laugh; “I, too, have not slept well.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Indeed, there, to the left, was a stone shelf with a little ledge to it three inches or so high, and on the shelf lay what I took to be a corpse; at any rate, it looked like one, with something white thrown over it.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

With this talk and more of the same kind they reached the village just as night was beginning to fall, but the peasant waited until it was a little later that the belaboured gentleman might not be seen riding in such a miserable trim.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[4185] Asarum, or Asrabecca, which, as Mesue saith, is hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, it is commonly taken in wine, whey, or as with us, the juice of two or three leaves or more sometimes, pounded in posset drink qualified with a little liquorice, or aniseed, to avoid the fulsomeness of the taste, or as Diaserum Fernelii .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From time to time the lama stretched out his hand, and with a little low-voiced prompting would point out the road to Spiti and north across the Parungla.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

"Good heavens!" said they, "with a load like that the poor beast will be so exhausted by the time he gets there that no one will look at him.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

She was a lovely lady, Ursula, And when her lord, still bent on learning more, Resolved to come out to America— top [Pg 16] His own affairs then calling him to England— He placed her in my care, intending soon To follow her.
— from The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith

“On the 3rd of August, a new eruption poured forth fresh floods of lava, which, taking a different direction from the others, filled the bed of another river, by which a large lake was formed, and much property and many lives destroyed.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

Fukurokuju is one of the seven gods of good luck, whose name means happiness, wealth and long life.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

It was difficult to say wherein the difference consisted,--perhaps her skirt was a little longer than the
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

When in the uncertain shades of night the English are riding any where alone, the Portune sometimes invisibly joins the horseman; and when he has accompanied him a good while, he at last takes the reins, and leads the horse into a neighbouring slough; and when he is fixed and floundering in it, the Portune goes off with a loud laugh, and by sport of this sort he mocks the simplicity of mankind.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

At least the present moment this fleeting breath may be comforted with a little love.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

She broke off shortly with a little laugh.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

In vain; he had perforce to remain upon the field, face to face with an adversary, who at last laid down her arms in a feigned complacence.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Near the shore, and partly sheltered by a woody promontory, was a long, low, small vessel.
— from Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson