I’ve been laughing all day, ever since morning.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This fiat, however, does not prevent members of almost every family from spending several days a week in the city, thus protecting themselves against the possible monotony of home living by lunching and dining, either singly or in informal groups, at the public restaurants.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

Its analogue in our social conditions is the marriage tie,—the strongest, doubtless, of all bonds when it realizes in the particular case the supreme affection of which our human nature is capable; but likewise, as daily experience shows, the most fretting when, through original mistake or unworthy motive, love fails, and obligation alone remains.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Faraday, by long and difficult experiments, showed the converse of this: he magnetized a ray of light,—an experiment "high, beautiful, and alone," says Mr. Tyndall.
— from Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton

And now she was alone in her house, last of her household, her work for her mother over, a wife, but loathed and deserted except so far as that the tie had sanctioned the occupation of her home by a hostile garrison.
— from Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

In sleep the muscles of inhalation and exhalation are relaxed, inhalation becomes long and deep, exhalation short and exhaustive, and the rhythmic intervals of respiration much lengthened.
— from The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin

They instantly clung to her, and have proved themselves to be loving and dutiful ever since.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton