how many myriads of poor slaves, captives, of such as work day and night in coal-pits, tin-mines, with sore toil to maintain a poor living, of such as labour in body and mind, live in extreme anguish, and pain, all which thou art free from?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite—but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him?
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

It was now that I began sensibly to feel how much more happy this life I now led was, with all its miserable circumstances, than the wicked, cursed, abominable life I led all the past part of my days; and now I changed both my sorrows and my joys; my very desires altered, my affections changed their gusts, and my delights were perfectly new from what they were at my first coming, or, indeed, for the two years past.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

And, if no other fault they find, They cry, "To such and such he's kind: Spends all his days and nights in caring For them, and leaves us here despairing."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

2) that he ‘bathed often day and night in cold water.’ 467 .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The next day, at nightfall, I came to the chateau of Murol.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[Pg i] and august patron's birthday, and at the christening ceremony he spoke as follows:—"Thou blessed month of October!—for many years the most decisive events in my life have occurred within thy thirty-one days, and now I celebrate the greatest and most glorious of them all by baptising my little boy!
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I hadn't been totally smart: at first, I'd just left that pic on my hard drive, and naturally I couldn't get to it when I had the laptop in parts.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

In order to speed the production the principal member of this firm himself took his place at the bench and worked almost day and night in cutting out garments.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

She knew she had been prompted by the irresistible impulse to hold fast to what was most precious to her, and that Owen’s arrival on the scene had been the pretext for her decision, and not its cause; yet she felt herself fortified by the thought of what she had spared him.
— from The Reef by Edith Wharton

Lady, let us urge you to proceed on your way—the sky darkens, and night is coming on.
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian

[Pg iv] Philter, The Mary B. Dodge 242 Portrait D'une Jeune Femme Inconnue M. E. W. S. 336 Progressive Baby, A S. F. Hopkins 581, 727 Punished, The Ella Wheeler 789 Pythia, The Modern S. B. Luce 209 Renunciation Kate Hillard 358 Reflected Light Mary Ainge De Vere 802 Romance J. W. De Forest 61 Roman Picture, A Mary Lowe Dickinson 674 Saint Lambert's Coal Margaret J. Preston 519 Scientific Miscellany Prof. John A. Church 129 , 269, 415, 558, 699, 846 Complications of the Channel Tunnel ; A Town of Dwarfs ; Whooping Cough ; British Association Notes ; An English Crop ; Influence of White Colors ; An Involved Accident ; An Old Aqueduct System ; Galvanism Cannot Restore Exhausted Vitality ; Curious Optical Experiments ; Ice Machines ; American Antiquities ; Protection from Lightning; Steam Machinery and Privateering; Man and Animals; The Limbs of Whales; Our Educational Standing; Surface Markings; The Oldest Stone Tools; Origin of the Spanish People; The English Meteorite; The Boomerang; A Western Lava Field; The Principle of Cephalization; Curiosities of the Herring Fishery; Natural Gas in Furnaces; South Carolina Phosphates; Rare Metals from Old Coins; A French Mountain Weather Station; Migration of the Lemming; New Discovery of Neolithic Remains; October Weather; French National Antiquities; The Force of Crystallization; Frozen Nitro-Glycerine; English Great Guns; Ear Trumpets for Pilots; Hot Water in Dressing Ores; Ocean Echoes; The Delicacy of Chemists' Balances; Government Control of the Dead; Microscopic Life; The Sources of Potable Water; Theory of the Radiometer; Tempered Glass in The Household; The New York Aquarium; The Cruelty of Hunting; The Gorilla in Confinement; Instruction Shops In Boston; Moon Madness; The Argument against Vaccination; The Telephone; Damages by an Insect; The Summer Scientific Schools; An Intelligent Quarantine; The "Grasshopper Commission"; Surveying Plans for the Season; The Causes of Violent Death; A New Induction Coil; French Property Owners; Trigonometrical Survey of New York; The Use of Air in Ore Dressing; Polar Colonization; The Survey in California; A German Savant among the Sioux; Ballooning for Air Currents; The Greatest of Rifles; Vienna Bread; Modern Loss in Warfare; A New Treasury Rule; A Hygienic School; Microscopic Comparison of Blood Corpuscles; The Summer Scientific Schools; The Wages Value of Steam Power; The Negro's Color; Scientific Items.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

External differences are nothing in comparison with internal ones.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

He was associated with the literary department, and next in command to Mr. W. S. page 308 p. 308
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

English vessels had been cruising in the neighborhood of San Domingo, which led Iberville to 56 believe that it was a colonizing expedition, so he worked day and night in completing his preparations, and on January 1, 1699, sailed for the Gulf of Mexico.
— from Explorers and Travellers by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely

The faithful carries it in his heart; it goes about with him, rests with him day and night, is close to him in life and death.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

“But it will not do to leave him on deck all night,” I continued; “he will get sober, and give us the slip.
— from A Pirate of the Caribbees by Harry Collingwood