A little Mole once said to his Mother: "Why, Mother, you said I was blind!
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I see yet the quiet, wearied, surprised look she cast up at me as I passed: a look merely of surprise to see an entire coat in a place where my fellow-creatures (every one deserving as much as me) for the most part wear rags.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

Shrinking from me, as I spoke,—but with a look more of sorrow than reproach, [pg 303] — “What, thou, too!”
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

But the word Reasoning, again, like most other scientific terms in popular use, abounds in ambiguities.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

The wave of anger that went through her rushed the colour into her face and she leaned nearer the glass with a little murmur of satisfaction that stopped abruptly as her fingers gripped the edge of the table, and she continued staring into the mirror not at her own face, but at the white robes that appeared behind her head, blotting out the limited view she had had of the room.
— from The Sheik: A Novel by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

Nevertheless he securely barred the gate and left me outside, showing that his trust in my good faith was either very weak, or that his politeness was confined to the flowery language of his country.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr

O'Flynn, however, urged that probably every man had a little "mite o' somethin'" that he had brought specially for himself—somethin' his friends had given him, for instance.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

“I have a little matter of stocks to talk over with you” (“matter” almost sounded like “mather”), “and I thought you'd better come here rather than that I should come down to your office.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser