Above stood the glistening instrument of death, and near it the executioners.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Well, this very day, at nine in the evening precisely, you must present yourself at the Vatican and at every door ask for Signor Squadra.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Hastening down the mountain to the canal, I washed my fossils and hurried to the stage-office in the village, where I arrived just in time to hear the provoking rattle of the coach-wheels half a mile distant, on the road to Honesdale, leaving me to decide the question whether to remain over a day, or, departing at nine in the evening, ride all night.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

We read that "Tapsters are forbid to sell to the Indians," and that "unseasonable night tippling" is also tabooed; likewise drinking after nine in the evening when curfew rings, or "on a Sunday before three o'clock, when divine service shall be over."
— from Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin

The dreadful mortality among doctors and nurses in the epidemics of typhus fever is well known.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Did a notch in the ear run through a pedigree?
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

The inventors of one well-known cuff-holder claim that it had a “bull-dog grip.” Think of sitting dressed all night in the embrace of that mechanical canine until the inventor could be called in to set you free!
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory