" Jo devoted herself to Beth day and night; not a hard task, for Beth was very patient, and bore her pain uncomplainingly as long as she could control herself.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

' Jo devoted herself to Beth day and night, not a hard task, for Beth was very patient, and bore her pain uncomplainingly as long as she could control herself.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Mr. Avery,—as he sat discussing, with his chum Miles, the best means of carrying out their designs against Ned Nevins and his Electric Monarch.
— from The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane by Richard Bonner

Armstrong’s brow was dark as night now, and he drew his breath hard.
— from The Tiger Lily by George Manville Fenn

"I thought it hard to leave my consort's side; Not as so much about her truth in pain, As that I could nor for two days abide, Nay, not an hour without her could remain.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

It would endanger the health of your own family, for Dorothy has been in our fever camp for two days and nights now, as head nurse and Arthur’s executive officer.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

I say day and night, Nadia,” added he, “for I cannot stop even for a moment; I go on without rest to Irkutsk.”
— from Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne

And O, noble people, poor and hard-working, unsophisticated by theories which make the Turk's dominion a necessary nuisance, and his religion a form of Christianity, do you come forward, and make common cause with Christ's poor and oppressed, whose faces are ground, whose chains are riveted, in his name.
— from From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe