Night and day are not long enough for the consummation of it.
— from Laws by Plato

Certainly, too, we shall awake and live again, and again shall sleep, and so on and on, through periods, spaces, and times, from æon unto æon, till the world is dead, and the worlds beyond the world are dead, and naught liveth but the Spirit that is Life.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The board that made the ceiling was to be lifted up and down by two hinges, to put in a bed ready furnished by her majesty's upholsterer, which Glumdalclitch took out every day to air, made it with her own hands, and, letting it down at night, locked up the roof over me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Carroll Does a nice little girl like you cheat when she plays against herself?
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

Law’s coachman, who was sitting at the box of his master’s carriage, in the court-yard of the palace, happened to have more zeal than discretion, and, not liking that the mob should abuse his master, he said, loud enough to be overheard by several persons, that they were all blackguards, and deserved to be hanged.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

It is out of date, and now looked upon as a vulgar habit to put your napkin up over your breast.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The principles of good and of evil will really battle with each other, and when the individual is so depraved as no longer to {357} have good principles, their place is taken by fear of discovery and punishment, and by the question whether the advantage to be gained is worth the effort, etc.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I will only say, senora, that whether it has might or not, that which it may or may not have shall be devoted to your service even to death; and now, leaving this to its proper season, I would ask the senor licentiate to tell me what it is that has brought him into these parts, alone, unattended, and so lightly clad that I am filled with amazement.” “I will answer that briefly,” replied the curate; “you must know then, Senor Don Quixote, that Master Nicholas, our friend and barber, and I were going to Seville to receive some money that a relative of mine who went to the Indies many years ago had sent me, and not such a small sum but that it was over sixty thousand pieces of eight, full weight, which is something; and passing by this place yesterday we were attacked by four footpads, who stripped us even to our beards, and them they stripped off so that the barber found it necessary to put on a false one, and even this young man here”—pointing to Cardenio—“they completely transformed.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

These dwellings are not large, yet they are solid and roomy enough for the accommodation of those who live in them, and to whom the surrounding estates belong.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The boys, who were experienced augurs on such subjects, knew all about this, and dreaded a notably lamb-like sermon as presaging trouble on Monday.
— from David Blaize by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

On the other hand, among the lower Apes, many possess twelve dorsal and six or seven lumbar vertebræ; the Douroucouli has fourteen dorsal and eight lumbar, and a Lemur ( Stenops tardigradus ) has fifteen dorsal and nine lumbar vertebræ.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The other articles follow: "ARTICLE IV " Revision of Arbitral Tribunal and Codification of International Law " Clause 1 "The International Council, within one year after its organization, shall notify to the powers signatory and adherent to this convention and shall invite all other powers to send delegates to an international conference at such place and time as the Council may determine and not later than six months after issuance of such notification and invitation.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

Cooper was scarcely in France when he remembered his friends of the weekly club, and sent frequent missives to be read at its meetings; but the club missed its founder went into a decline, and not long afterwards quietly expired.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Here the winds and the rains are constantly at work tearing down and sculpturing the great land masses, while in places the wind is piling up the sand and debris to form dunes and new lands.
— from Ancient Landscapes of the Grand Canyon Region The Geology of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Petrified Forest & Painted Desert by Edwin D. (Edwin Dinwiddie) McKee

Dee had to admit it, but declared she thought a dog [247] should smell like a dog and not like a tuberose; so the discussion ended.
— from At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Accordingly the parliament, "influenced by a holy zeal and fervour against these novelties, [1041] issued a decree to the effect that the Bishop of Paris and the other prelates should be bound to commission Messieurs Philip Pot, president of requests, and Andrew Verjus, councillor, and Messieurs William Duchesne and Nicholas Leclerc, doctors of divinity, to institute and conduct the trial of those who should be tainted with the Lutheran doctrine.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

It is not three hours since it was arranged what part each of us was to do; and now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam launch, with steam up ready to start at a moment’s notice.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker