'Now, I should be loth,' said Mr Wegg, with an air of patient injury, 'to think so ill of him as to suppose him capable of coming at this time of night.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

What do you mean by alarming the citadel at this time of night consecrated to me?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“And certainly,” added he, “it must be so; for no one but a madman would have thought of leaving so good a house to ramble about the country at that time of night.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

They began bargaining, and declared that five roubles would be little to ask for a carriage at that time of night.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Even their church, built upon the slope of the hill so artfully, with its beautiful raised transept and its spire of silvery shingle—even their church had lost its charm; and the thing one never talked about—religion—was fading like all the other things.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

At the same time the Navarch of the league made numerous descents upon Calydonia and the territory of Naupactus; and not only overran the country, but twice annihilated the force sent out to resist him.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He told the king [ 159 ] that he would call him Don Carlo, after his sovereign the emperor; the prince, Don Fernando, after the emperor’s brother; the king of Mazaua, Johanni; a chief, Fernando, after our chief, that is to say, the captain; the Moro, Christoforo; and then the others, now one name, and now another.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

What a terrible thing to live in the limelight of popular favor, to be envied as rich and powerful, to be esteemed as honorable and straightforward, and yet to be conscious all the time of not being what the world thinks we are; to live in constant terror of discovery, in fear that something may happen to unmask us and show us up in our true light!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The [ 131 ] Spaniards found this tribe tattooing their bodies with ornamental designs, a practice widespread throughout Oceanica, and which still is common among the tribes of northern Luzon.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Those established in the conviction that they cannot stand noises or other sources of discomfort, rarely reach the point of a certain poor old lady who used to wander from clinic to clinic, able to think of nothing else, and to talk of nothing else, than the ringing in her ears, and to attend to no other business than efforts for its relief.
— from Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton

"Whatever dun yo want, chaps, at this time o' neet?" he called out.
— from Lancashire Humour by Thomas Newbigging

After three or four years of this, he found himself, "in prosecution of his calling," at the theatre one night with fat little Canon Conti, a kinsman of the Franceschini.
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

'But no poor person would come at this time of night, and slip out stealthily at the garden door, which ought to be locked at half-past nine.'
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

[Pg 96] are, from this side clear across to the other, not one of them rises above the level on which you are standing or rather, above the level of the opposite side of the Canyon, which is a little higher, the slope being continued across.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

CHAPTER V Early Life of Father Mastai 70 Birth in 1792—A Happy Family—His Youth—Epilepsy—The Church at the Time of Napoleon—Abduction of Pius to Avignon—Napoleon’s Downfall—Return of the Pope to Rome—His Reception—Prophecies Regarding Pius IX—His Journey to Chile—Ocean Trip—Across the Andes—Failure of Mission—Rounding Cape Horn—English Settlement on the Cape—“Love-of-the-Soil”—The Falkland Islands.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

Beyond doubt, if the Territory of Kansas required a prohibition against slavery, the Territory of Colorado and the Territory of Nevada, which lay as far south, needed it also.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

Compare also the text of No. 876.], as is here shown at r s in the figure, whence comes so great an extent of radiance as that of the full moon as we see it, at the fifteenth day of the moon?
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

The force before Brest was largely increased, consisting at this time of never less than twenty-four sail-of-the-line, and, until [Pg 369] ordered by the Admiralty to be reduced, was maintained by St. Vincent at thirty.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The second is to be séene in the edge of Shropshire about two miles from Colme, betwéene two riuers, the Clun or Colunus, and the Tewie otherwise named Themis, wherevnto there is no accesse but at one place.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison