We turned in pretty late that night, and turned out pretty early next morning.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Through all the world spreads the suspicion that this scheme of things might be remade, and remade better, and that our present evils need not be.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We were aboard one of the dirty little steamboats that were found in that part of the Mediterranean, and, as the weather was somewhat rough, the bilge water had been shaken about in the night, and a terrible odor pervaded every nook of the vessel.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

These two ways of thinking of the recitation, one primarily administrative and the other primarily educative, need to be somewhat sharply differentiated in our thinking.
— from The Recitation by George Herbert Betts

(G. Opdyke, “A Treatise on Political Economy,” New York, 1851, p. 277-278.)
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

"The ancient town of Palenque, exhibits not only excellent workmanship in the temples, palaces, private houses, and baths, but a boldness of design in the architect, as well as skill in the execution, which will not shrink from a comparison with the works, at least, of the earlier ages of Egyptian power.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

[766] that such pure notions as those of possibility, existence, necessity, substance, cause, are “acquired by attending to the actions of the mind on the occasion of experience.”
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Plato, according to Harris, and the first inquirers into language, according to Horne Tooke, made them two ; nouns and verbs, which Crombie, Dalton, M'Culloch, and some others, say, are the only parts essentially necessary for the communication of our thoughts.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown