An hour elapsed; there was a loud ring at the hall-door, the great and distinguished party had arrived.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But the laird did not go till they had all had tea together, and the doctor had again come and gone, and given his decided opinion that all Cosmo needed was a little rest, and that he would be quite well in a day or two.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

She had endeavoured to patch up matters with a little romance, and then had fallen upon Conway Dalrymple,—meaning no harm.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

In all probability the open butt had been placed in his cell by order of the brother who so well knew Clarence's weakness, and hoped by this means to get rid of him without any legal responsibility as to his end.
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt

The old man and woman, meanwhile, intent solely upon their meal, which, now too hot for their mouths, now too cold for their taste, now too hard for their teeth, occupied all their discourse; heeded not her uneasiness, and, when she arose and took leave, saw her departure with as little remark as they had seen her entrance.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Over this was a low roofed and thatched house, the flooring of which was composed of strips of split bamboo laid upon the salt.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

Tranquillity was at length restored at the hall.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

It is to be noted that the Scandinavian treatment of churches reacted on the Irish, and that many native warriors came to regard saints and sanctuaries with as little respect as Turgesius himself.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

They beat the woods and tramped the roads, but with as little result as though he had, in fact, appeared out of his grave and returned again to its hiding.
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck

" The king's commission was as little respected as the homilies of Archbishop Browne, who advised the calling of a parliament to pass the supremacy by act, and wrote to Lord Cromwell, in 1638, complaining that " the reliques and images of both his cathedrals took the common people from the true worship, and desiring a more explicit order for their removal ," and for the aid of the lord-deputy's troops in carrying out his unpopular designs.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various