the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
You might walk across the barrens every night of your life and never encounter it; and again it might come upon you all unawares, not more than ten yards from your own threshold.
— from Cape Breton Tales by Harry James Smith
Ah, Rosie, it's on yir knees ye ought to be every night of yir life, thankin' God for the kind o' father I picked out for you!"
— from The Rosie World by Parker Fillmore
"Why, don't you go out every night of your life in the season?" said Rendel; "I thought all young ladies did."
— from The Arbiter: A Novel by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady
he continued, bringing his fist down on the mantelpiece, "I'd give you everything on the table, every night of your life, if I could go in and sit at the counter and eat them."
— from Mightier than the Sword by Alphonse Courlander
It must be splendid to be greeted in that manner every night of your life and—if you are working two or three halls—five times every night; to know that some one wants you, that some one whom you have never seen before loves you and is ready to pay good money away in order to watch you play the fool or be yourself.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke
"Then, evidently, none of you likes Professor Lemm," said Colonel Colby slowly.
— from The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer
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