He says that ( a ) in idiopathic peripheral neuralgias the nerves are not sensitive to the current; ( b ) in neuralgias dependent on neuritis or hyperæmia of the nerve-sheath there is general electric tenderness of the nerve; ( c ) in cases where the pain has been set up by morbid processes in tissues surrounding the nerve, there is electric tenderness only at the site of these changes.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

Dreary are the years when the eye can look no longer With delight on Nature, or hope on human kind; Oh, may those that whiten my temples, as they pass me, Leave the heart unfrozen, and spare the cheerful mind!
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

As he journeyed along, the darkness of night overtook him on his way over the mountain, but to his great surprise, when he looked around him, he noticed a black dog following him, or rather walking by his side.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

We paid for it three hundred and twenty-five dollars, or nearly one half our little capital; but such was my own confidence in the success of our schemes that I parted with the money that had cost us so much labour without the least reluctance.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

They saw day turned into night by smoke, and night turned into day by unquenched fires, and they knew not whether it was day or night, or heaven or hell to which they had come.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

“Give me a square chance and I'll tackle Vic Gregg alone day or night, on hoss or on foot.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

"I've got a little money left," and Mark drew out not only his own but the hermit's money.
— from Mark Manning's Mission: The Story of a Shoe Factory Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Political life at Rome had always been expensive in so far as office was unpaid and its tenure implied leisure and a considerable degree of neglect of his own domestic concerns in the patriot who was willing to accept it.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge