At last there is a lair found out where Toughy, or the Tough Subject, lays him down at night; and it is thought that the Tough Subject may be Jo.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

More definitely, as near as I remember (aided by my dear mother long afterward,)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Being thus come to the city of Maeldum, 926 in Gaul, he lay four days and nights, as if he had been dead, and only by his faint breathing showed that he had any life in him.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

To assist the underwriters in their calculations, at the end of the room is an Anemometer, which registers the state of the wind day and night; attached is a rain gauge.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Why, then, are not we trained to walk as they do in the dark, to recognise what we touch, to distinguish things about us; in a word, to do at night and in the dark what they do in the daytime without sight?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Moral discriminations are natural and inevitable.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I pass whole days and nights alone in this cloister, without closing my eyes.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

He then proceeds to mention some other particulars of the life of Socrates; how they were at Potidaea together, where Socrates showed his superior powers of enduring cold and fatigue; how on one occasion he had stood for an entire day and night absorbed in reflection amid the wonder of the spectators; how on another occasion he had saved Alcibiades' life; how at the battle of Delium, after the defeat, he might be seen stalking about like a pelican, rolling his eyes as Aristophanes had described him in the Clouds.
— from Symposium by Plato

Am feeling pretty well—am outdoors most of the time, absorbing the days and nights all I can. CENTRAL PARK NOTES American Society from a Park Policeman's Point of View Am in New York city, upper part—visit Central Park almost every day (and have for the last three weeks) off and on, taking observations or short rambles, and sometimes riding around.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

My negligence and the confidence I had in M. Mathas, in whose garden I was shut up, frequently made me forget to lock the door at night, and in the morning I several times found it wide open; this, however, would not have given me the least inquietude had I not thought my papers seemed to have been deranged.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then followed a dialogue, which I will endeavour to set down as near as I can recollect it, omitting only some of my profuse apologies—for I was covered with shame and humiliation that I, a Square, should have been guilty of the impertinence of feeling a Circle.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

When he succeeded with the rubbing-stick fire, he rose a few points; since then he had fallen a little, nearly every day, and now an incident took place which reduced him even below his original low level.
— from Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

100. nis` din sâlai ghâw A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more.
— from Songs of Kabir by Kabir

And now when every night and morning in my prayers I add, as usual, the name of Dr. Luther to those of my mother and father and all dear to me, I think of him passing long days and nights alone in that grim castle, looking down on the dear old Eisenach valley, and I say, "Lord, make the wilderness to him the school for his ministry to all our land."
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

On the 18th, the Army of the North, which only four weeks before had invaded Holland, was signally defeated at Neerwinden, and its general, Dumouriez, the victor of Valmy and Jemappes, the most successful leader the war had yet produced, was forced to retreat upon France.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He also calls attention to the fact that in the human hand "there is a considerable preponderance of cases of union between the digits iii and iv ;" while in the foot the united digits "are nearly always ii and iii ."
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport

They spend their days and nights assiduously (in the literal sense) bent over mediocre stuff, poking and poring in the unending hope of finding something rich and strange.
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley