amaba y amo a Rosario; usted aparentó aceptarme por hijo; usted, 15 recibiéndome con engañosa cordialidad, empleó desde el primer momento todas las artes de la astucia para contrariarme y estorbar el cumplimiento de las proposiciones hechas a mi padre; usted se propuso desde el primer día desesperarme, aburrirme, y con los labios llenos de sonrisas 20 y de palabras cariñosas, me ha estado matando, achicharrándome a fuego lento; usted ha lanzado contra mí en la obscuridad y a mansalva un enjambre de pleitos; usted me ha destituído del cargo oficial que traje a Orbajosa; usted me ha desprestigiado en la ciudad; usted me ha expulsado 25 de la catedral; usted me ha tenido en constante ausencia de la escogida de mi corazón; usted ha mortificado
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She was cold all day long, everywhere, in the drawing-room, at meals, in her own apartment.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[38] "We take over the ownership of the Sarre mines, and in order not to be inconvenienced in the exploitation of these coal deposits, we constitute a distinct little estate for the 600,000 Germans who inhabit this coal basin, and in fifteen years we shall endeavor by a plebiscite to bring them to declare that they want to be French.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

This charming object, swearing, roaring, scolding, storming, and making his wife cry all day long, ended by doing whatever she thought proper, and this to set her in a rage, because she knew how to persuade him that it was he who would, and she would not have it so.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But a wound deeper far, undescried, The young heart was rankling; for there, of a truth, In the first earnest faith of a pure pensive youth, A love large as life, deep and changeless as death, Lay ensheath'd: and that love, ever fretting its sheath, The frail scabbard of life pierced and wore through and through.
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

And I roamed up and down through the city all day long, examining everything I met that had the shape of a woman with the eye of a hunting leopard.
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

There is no reason why I should eat the bread of charity a day longer, especially when so many need it more than I." "I said you were a gentleman; I now say you are a man, and that to me means a great deal more," said the energetic stranger.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

Here they play cards all day long, except on Sunday.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

“No,” Nan-nan replied, “but it explains why Yuri has kept a large squadron of whistling bees patrolling the eastern coast all day long every day.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

En effet, à aucun, ou à bien peu du moins, je ne connais pas à cet angle de lunule extrême, ainsi placée sur le bord lui-même des secondes ailes, et dans cette position, rejetée en arrière de celle qui la précède.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

[43] [Old copy and Dilke, long enclosed .]
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

But Eva began to be very tired of the long journey through the cavern; and she was wondering to herself how much farther they would have to go, when all of a sudden the little blue flames burning in the lily-cups flickered for a moment, and then, seemingly gathering themselves together, shot up to the roof of the cavern and disappeared, leaving everything again in total darkness; and Eva was just going to ask the trout what this meant, when she saw, far away in the distance before her, what looked to her like a tiny, yet beautiful blue star shining.
— from Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land by Mary D. (Mary Dummett) Nauman