Perhaps it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

King Louis XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title of baron.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Mamá me prohibe verte; pero fuera de lo del ateísmo no habla mal de ti.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Hours and hours, days and nights, he remained in this same condition.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Steeds, men, cannon, eagles flowed on day and night; here and there fires glowed in the sky; the earth trembled, in the distance one could hear the rolling of thunder.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

"Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"' Having set out next day on a visit to the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton, and to my friend, Mr. Temple, at Mamhead, in Devonshire, and not having returned to town till the second of May, I did not see Dr. Johnson for a considerable time, and during the remaining part of my stay in London, kept very imperfect notes of his conversation, which had I according to my usual custom written out at large soon after the time, much might have been preserved, which is now irretrievably lost.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She had locked the door, and now held the key in her hand, as she threw herself wearily into a chair that stood out of its place in the middle of the house floor, where in ordinary times she would never have consented to sit.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I've seen the very house where it was done, and nobody hath lived in it these thirty years.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

His men were exhausted from lack of food and rest for two days and nights; he was pursued by the enemy, very superior in forces, well clothed, fed and rested, who would overtake him before he could fulfil his plan to take Brunswick.
— from The Little Washingtons' Travels by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Day and night he worked like a Trojan to bring the necessary order out of the chaos that had somehow come to enshroud him, and underneath was the gnawing distrust of his own endowment properly to fill the place to which he had been appointed.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, her birth and parentage, i., 1-18; baptised at Leicester House, 17; childhood at Kew, 20; her accomplishments, 20; reared in strict seclusion by her mother, 32; first public appearance, 38; betrothed to Prince Christian of Denmark, 48; her reluctance to the Danish match, 84; her marriage portion, 85; married by proxy, 87; leaves for Denmark, 87; reaches Rotterdam, 90; received by her husband at Röskilde, 96; public entry into Copenhagen, 98; her marriage, 102; festivities at Copenhagen, 103; disappointed in her husband, 109; crowned and anointed, 119; embittered against the King, 125; swayed by Madame de Plessen, 127; treated cruelly by the King, 135; birth of her son Frederick VI., 138; loss to her of Madame de Plessen, 144; resides at Frederiksborg, 176; reconciliation to the King, 182; illness, 191;
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

For a few moments, sadly regardful of the two, he stands—while his son seeks in vain to reveal to his mother the presence of his father—a few moments of piteous action, all but ruining the remnant of his son’s sorely-harassed self-possession—his whole concern his wife’s distress, and neither his own doom nor his son’s duty; then, as if lost in despair at the impassable gulf betwixt them, revealed by her utter incapacity for even the imagination of his proximity, he turns away, and steals out at the portal.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

There was no time to be lost; winter was fast approaching; day and night had again returned.
— from Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 by Edward L. (Edward Lawton) Moss

If it could be done at night, Hendrik admitted, the thing might be different.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

Those diagonals are needlessly heavy, for the builders were still experimenting.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

The two were about of a height, but the other kind—because it did not have young ones, and did not have to spend much of its time gambolling with young ones and watching young ones, because it roamed more, because it had, perhaps, a certain surplus of explosive energy which set it to contending with its fellows or sent it, day and night, howling and racing through the trees, because of this and because of that—the other kind was ahead in muscular development.
— from The Wanderers by Mary Johnston

This boat was of very light draft and not heavily loaded, so we seldom ran on sand bars and made steady progress.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers