If you was to express to me by a gesture, by a wink, that you saw lying anywhere in your late lodgings any papers that so much as looked like the papers in question, I would pitch them into the fire, sir, on my own responsibility."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

His death, however, did not bring more peaceful relations between Syracuse and Rome, but only gave the Syracusans more able leaders (Livy, 24, 21).
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Wasn't she most awfully lovely?" "Lovely?
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"When thou hast shown me a little love, thou mockest me!"
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His mother, when he left the estate alone for court, which he seldom did without her accompanying him, never failed to send me a long letter, beseeching me to guard the welfare of her son.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Life is refined; religion itself, unless fanaticism be too hopelessly in the ascendant, is co-ordinated with other public interests and compelled to serve mankind; a liberal life is made possible; the imagination is stimulated and set free by that same brilliant concentration of all human energies which defeats practical liberty.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

However, in all bravery she resumed like one who had been a friend since childhood, sharing many a little love secret: "Yes, a very pretty person whom you know.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 by Émile Zola

Let no one say of me: ‘She spoiled his greatness by her littleness; She made a languorous lover of a king, And silenced war-cries on commanding lips— With honeyed kisses; made her woman’s arms Preferred to armour, and her couch to tents, Until the kingdom, with no guiding hand, Plunged down to ruin.’
— from Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In this struggle she must at last lose faith.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

She made a little low-pitched sound of amusement.
— from The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I studied medicine a little, long ago; I shall be happy if I can assist you with advice, which you may follow if you think it good!—Ah!
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

I soon made a lasso loop and stood poised on the bank, directly opposite Jim, ready for the throw.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

Acer dasycarpum (white or silver maple), a little low on East Branch and in Chesuncook woods.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau