The astral day and night are longer than those of earth.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Poseidonius says, but I do not know whether truly, that Africa is traversed by few, and those small rivers; yet he speaks of the same rivers, namely those between Lynx and Carthage, which Artemidorus describes as numerous and large.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

" Self-sacrificing as her mood might be, Tess could not well go further and cry, "Marry one of them, if you really do want a dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!"
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

We was reckoning on getting a divorce about now, and letting the kids well, we didn't know what we would do with the kids.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

I arose quietly and dressed, and not a little astonished the company sitting in the parlor below, by my sudden entrance.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

It is not necessary to detail the fluctuations of hope and despair, and not a little fear of what lay beyond, with which I twisted and turned the knob.
— from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Keeping along the lake-shore all day, and not a little tormented by the shoals of mosquitoes as the evening advanced, he rode into Sandusky City, July thirteenth, and delivered his lecture the same evening to a fair audience.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

I will breathe good air day and night, and live out of doors all I can.
— from How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts

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— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

Tabhair dhuinn an diu ar n aran laitheill.
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

And in his “Education of Man,” in a long and eloquent passage on the need for continuity of training from the tiniest of beginnings, he says: “It is highly pernicious and even destructive to consider the stages of human development as distinct, and not as life shows them, continuous in themselves, in unbroken transitions.”— E., p. 27.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

Within the compass of the watcher’s hand All strengths of other men and divers powers Were held at ease and gathered up as flowers; His heart was as the heart of his whole land, And at his feet as natural servants lay Twilight and dawn and night and labouring day.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

If water and dressings are not accessible, let the blood cake and dry over the wound without disturbing it, even though it does look rather gory.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson