I dreamed all night about Indians, deserts, and silver bars, and in due time, next day, we took shipping at the St. Louis wharf on board a steamboat bound up the Missouri River.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

While he was telling them his story, anxiety for intelligence made me draw as near as I durst.
— from Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton

"Yes, I did; and no again, I didn't!
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

Pray till 'im day an' nicht, as I du, that he wad lead 'im to see the error o' his ways, an' turn to the Lord, wha's ready to pardon.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

She is crying out for you incessantly day and night, and I do not think it is mere [155] delirium.
— from Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre

"It is killing work: in the batteries day and night; always in danger under this hellish fire.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

How well this has been accomplished can be seen from the fact, that it has a capital of nearly fifteen million dollars, and numbers among its directors, such bonanza kings as James C. Flood, John W. MacKay and James G. Fair, whose private fortunes combined represent over $100,000,000, to say nothing of other wealthy directors.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

My sister had gone to bed, for I could always let myself in; nor, indeed, did any one in Marshmailows think the locking of the door at night an imperative duty.
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

Willing hands opened the tonneau door and Nick and I descended.
— from The Red Fox's Son: A Romance of Bharbazonia by Edgar M. (Edgar Meck) Dilley

Now that the moon was down, and night at its darkest, the frost hardened.
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

These truths, now accepted as trite and self-evident, ranked, in Roger Bacon’s day, as novel and important discoveries.
— from Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams