In this strain of consolation, Herbert informed me the invisible Barley would commune with himself by the day and night together; Often, while it was light, having, at the same time, one eye at a telescope which was fitted on his bed for the convenience of sweeping the river.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

At Harmene the army halted five days; and now that they seemed to be so close to Hellas, the question how they were to reach home not empty-handed presented itself more forcibly to their minds than heretofore.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

In fact, the attacking troops will usually be somewhat disordered, even in victory, and it will often be very difficult to replace them by those of the second line, because they generally follow the first line at such a distance as not to come within musket-range of the enemy; and it is always embarrassing to substitute one division for another in the heat of battle, at the moment when the enemy is putting forth all his strength in repelling the attack.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

To the devil and Barabbas with such books, that have brought to ruin in this way the finest understanding there was in all La Mancha!” The niece said the same, and, more: “You must know, Master Nicholas”—for that was the name of the barber—“it was often my uncle’s way to stay two days and nights together poring over these unholy books of misventures, after which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was weary he said was the blood of the wounds he had received in battle; and then he would drink a great jug of cold water and become calm and quiet, saying that this water was a most precious potion which the sage Esquife, a great magician and friend of his, had brought him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Is it to be believed, say they, that our forefathers were besotted even to such a degree as not to know that these things are divine gifts, and not gods?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Many times, each day and night, the tolling bell sent forth its melancholy voice, announcing another death.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The real totemic cult is addressed neither to certain determined animals nor to certain vegetables nor even to an animal or vegetable species, but to a vague power spread through these things.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Stay longer in that great gaol of a house, worse than any barn, they shall not—exposed day and night to a traffic of sea rascals, thieves and murderers, they shall not ——” “What I want to know is who is to keep them, and what the safer they will be here?”
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Next day at noon the baron brought to us a short, stout, yellow-haired man in gold spectacles, the famous German bacteriologist, Professor Hoheisel, of the Friedrichshain Hospital.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

This defiant answer nonplussed the rebels, who had private interests to consider.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

my heart is wholly given to Diodoros, and not the smallest part of it to any other.
— from A Thorny Path — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

Every ten minutes, day and night, they steamed in, all up to time.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

"Substantially yes," replied the Proud Briton; "though it is supplemented, perhaps, by the corollary, 'Never be either the first or the last to do a new thing.'"
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 13, 1894 by Various

The advance continues without interruption day and night, the launch taking a second anchor and hawser forward and dropping the anchor in advance of the first by a hawser's length, so that when the capstan has wound up the first hawser it finds a second one ready for attachment to the rope drum.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

Variations in Stature Through the Different Ages Notwithstanding that growth is an evolution, it manifests itself also by an absolute augmentation of mass ; and the linear index of such augmentation is given by the growth in stature , or by its variations at different ages.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Jarret W. Cunningham Grant Aug. 10 Sept. 3 Died at Nashville, Tenn., April 26, 1863.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

All the same, meseemed it was a happy ordering that the Magister should have set forth early that morning to spend a few days at Nordlingen, to take possession of the house he had fallen heir to; for, when a great misfortune lies ahead, a hopeful soul clings to delay as the harbinger of deliverance.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers