If events have proved it to be a wise and beneficial measure, I am willing that those to whom it owes its parentage should receive all the honors that are due to them; but if security to our navigation, and protection to our seamen, were the real objects of the embargo, then it has already answered all the effects that can be expected from it.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Still all consumption of liquor is not confined to Ireland, and I well remember when I was with Bogue in Scotland, that one night he had a fellow-farmer of the very best type to dine with him, and about ten o'clock, with much difficulty, my man and I hoisted him into the saddle.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

Doctor Benton is staying there over night—also Mr. Sawyer."
— from Dreamy Hollow: A Long Island Romance by Sumner Charles Britton

In this method an air blower is needed, and since this means an engine for operation, it is not generally feasible, but is suited to occasional needs, where an engine is already installed for other purposes and is therefore available.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

If you don't believe it, stay there one night in a storm, and then you will believe anything.
— from One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard

"But I say, To our next meeting!"
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

Upon this, they tried to get at me with their sticks; but I seized the one next to me, and sent him flying through the air, so that he dropped into the grass like a lamed mountain-rook; and then they all cried out that I was a coarse mountain-lout, and that their strength lay in science and intellect.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

SWIFT MACNEILL brought down model of battering-ram used at Falcarragh; holds it up; shows it in working order; Committee much interested; inclined to encourage this sort of thing; pleasant interlude in monotony of denunciation of Prince ARTHUR and all his works; no knowing what developments may not be in store; the other night had magic-lantern performance just off Terrace; that all very well on fine night; but when it's raining must keep indoors and battering-ram suitable for indoor exhibition.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various