Thanks entirely to my own personal efforts, the place is entirely clear of debts, and now, when I have grown old, you want to throw me out, neck and crop!
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the second, when conquest led by Bajazet [24] came from the south, the chieftain of Deolia, a noble scion of Mewar, “though severed from her stem,” claimed the crown of glory and of martyrdom.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where for this many hundred years the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d, Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort— Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

She tried repeatedly, but utterly failed; yet so slight a cause of distress as not being able to talk quickly enough, sufficed to bring these muscles over and over again into energetic action.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

So the Astronomer, from the Rising, Setting, and Moving of the Sun, and Starres, in divers parts of the Heavens, findeth out the Causes of Day, and Night, and of the different Seasons of the Year; whereby he keepeth an account of Time:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Since the last ball many of them have been sulky with me, especially the captain of dragoons; and now, it seems, a hostile gang is actually being formed against me, under the command of Grushnitski.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

"Several changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had greatly lessened, when I began to distinguish my sensations from each other.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Doña Perfecta, después de pronunciar algunas palabras incoherentes que eran la más clara expresión de su ira, cayó en un sillón con muestras de cansancio o de ataque nervioso.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Commedias that come out divine are not accomplished otherwise.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Cairns on Dartmoor are numerous, but all the large ones have been opened and robbed at some unknown period.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

All the world at this time was wrapt in gloom, with no change of day and night.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various

" In this case, it becomes only a change of destination and no loss at all.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Proof of earth's rotundity "You know that the cause of day and night is the rotation of the earth on its own axis.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

If our readers ask when all this took place, we must answer, in the first place, that mythology is not careful of dates; and next, that, as Brutus was the great-grandson of Aeneas, it must have been not far from a century subsequent to the Trojan war, or about eleven hundred years before the invasion of the island by Julius Caesar.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

From what element of our population is this cry of distress and need more agonizing than from the poor black man of the South?
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896 by Various

It was a singular strain of complaisance to praise Henry's, Edward's, and Mary's religious sentiments in the same breath; but the queen might at least learn this from it, that whether she fixed on one of their creeds, or devised a new one for herself, she was sure of the acquiescence of this ancient and learned body.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

All the provisions of the city and neighbourhood were consumed or destroyed, and no countryman brought even the necessaries of life to the market, it was needful therefore to send far into the country for the means to appease hunger.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

Systematic tidal and meteorological observations were carried on day and night at Cape Sheridan, Point Aldrich (near Cape Columbia), Cape Bryant, Cape Morris Jesup, and Fort Conger—the periods of time covered at these stations being about 231, 29, 28, 10, and 15 days, respectively.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

Science is acquainted with no period in time, no locality in space, where there has been a general suspension of law; and it may be worthy of remark that, although Scripture speaks of the original state of things as without form and void, there is no hint that it was beyond control of Divine and natural ordinance.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various