And the day may discern, even with its dim London eye, that the court has been up all night.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Dum li estis tie li aŭdis pri Diogeno, kaj demandis pri li.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, the end.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We live from hand to mouth, most of us, with a small family of immediate desires; we do little else than snatch a morsel to satisfy the hungry brood, rarely thinking of seed-corn or the next year's crop.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

To puff away an hour, and drink a cup, A brimming breakfast -cup of ruddy Mocha— Clear, luscious, dark, like eyes that lighten up The raven hair, fair cheek, and bella boca Of Florence maidens.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

To perform a round of daily labor, even though it insured the most ample provision for his wants, would be contrary alike to the inclination and the supposed dignity of the Red Man, who will scarcely deign to follow any pursuit which does not combine enterprise and excitement.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

Within the cemetery "distance lent enchantment to the view.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

If for clear soups, strain again through a hair sieve, or fold a clean towel in a colander set over an earthen bowl, or any dish large enough to hold the stock.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Distance lends enchantment to the ear as well as to the sight; nor to these bodily senses alone.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

[135] There is too remarkable a similarity in this to Campbell’s lines:— ’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountains in their azure hue: to allow one to pass it over without pointing it out.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius