Donald appeared not to see her at all, and answered her wise little remarks with curtly indifferent monosyllables, his looks and faculties hanging on the woman who could boast of a more Protean variety in her phases, moods, opinions, and also principles, than could Elizabeth.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

When biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south the lift, Dim-dark'ning thro' the flaky show'r, Or whirling drift: Ae night the storm the steeples rocked, Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked, While burns, wi' snawy wreaths up-choked, Wild-eddying swirl; Or, thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl: List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle Beneath a scar.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Some hours after midnight, the maid-servant of the lady, who slept in the same room with her, wishing to come out, opened the door and noticed the silver khais lying there.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

On that day at noon they still saw land astern, and three hours later, high mountains, but during the succeeding forty-eight hours land was seen neither to the east nor the west.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

And I heard my grandmother say that the family once put the child out of doors at night to see if the piskies would take it back again.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I'll tell you, kinsman; Learn to be wise, and practise how to thrive; That would I have you do: and not to spend Your coin on every bauble that you fancy, Or every foolish brain that humours you.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

This is where the world has arrived,—these dark and awful depths and not the shining and ineffable heights of which it boasted.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

[51] Here we find the Tylwyth Teg showing quite the same characteristics as Welsh elves in general, as Cornish pixies, and as Breton corrigans , or lutins ; that is, given to dancing at night, to stealing children, and to deceiving travellers.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

We will next consider the absolute monarch that we have just mentioned, who does everything according to his own will: for a king governing under the direction of laws which he is obliged to follow does not of himself create any particular species of government, as we have already said: for in every state whatsoever, either aristocracy or democracy, it is easy to appoint a general for life; and there are many who entrust the administration of affairs to one person only; such is the government at Dyrrachium, and nearly the same at Opus.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

An emigrant-train it is; and she, and I, and all those dim people are rushing westward, ever westward,—through days and nights that seem preternaturally large,—over distances that are monstrous.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

The surgeons fought day and night to stay the spread of the disease, but everything was against them.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

But to will and to do are not the same thing, and still further Westward was
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

He died at Naples, the scene of his triumphs, in 1656.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

At this terrible moment it must surely have been Providence which interfered in the boomer's behalf, for, totally unconscious of his peril, he would have done absolutely nothing to save himself.
— from The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma by Edward Stratemeyer

His house was so closely beset by the populace, day and night, that scarcely any person ventured to visit him; and he was afraid that his chapel would be burned to the ground.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It supplied Beauchamp with an excuse for staying, that he was angry with himself for being pleased to have; so he attacked the practice of duelling, and next the shrug, wherewith M. Livret and M. d'Orbec sought at first to defend the foul custom, or apologize for it, or plead for it philosophically, or altogether cast it off their shoulders; for the literal interpretation of the shrug in argument is beyond human capacity; it is the point of speech beyond our treasury of language.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 3 by George Meredith

This day at noon, the sun stood at 99 degrees of Fahrenheit.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

Additional data are needed to support some of the ideas discussed below; many of the data that are available for Ptychohyla are lacking for other, possibly related, hylids.
— from A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William Edward Duellman