Nor long shall be our labour, yet ere dawne, Effect shall end our wish.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Nor long shall be our labour; yet ere dawn, Effect shall end our wish.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

“ Nihil capiunt quia sunt superbi.... Præsumunt quod Deus eorum sensum et opera approbabit, quia ipsis iustus et rectus apparet ”; p. 86, he again attacks “ omnes superbi in ecclesia spirituales, qui sunt magnorum et multorum operum .”
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

We have slowly come to realize that periodical idleness as well as the payment of wages insufficient for maintenance of the manual worker in full industrial and domestic efficiency, stand economically on the same footing with the "sweated" industries, the overwork of women, and employment of children.
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

Why it is that the Mint puts eighty-seven and a quarter grains of sterling silver into each and every shilling, and never deviates from that quantity (rigorously 87.27272 grains), we are not here called upon to inquire; but unquestionably the determination exerts some effect on prices, within the limit, at anyrate, of the matters discussed in the present article—intensified by the predominance of this particular kind of silver coin over others.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 687 February 24, 1877 by Various

He generally managed to find someone to assume the duty for him; but one day everyone seemed engaged on some pursuit or other, so with every anticipation of a dull evening he went down to hall.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh