As soon as their glasses were empty they filled them again, with a gesture of resigned weariness, but Mademoiselle Fifi emptied his every minute, and a soldier immediately gave him another.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I went on my way, not as before, feeling each hour, each minute, to be an age instinct with incalculable pain.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nonnulli ficta et haec et multa praeterea existimabant ab iis, qui Ciceronis invidiam, quae postea orta est, leniri credebant atrocitate sceleris eorum, qui poenas dederant.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

As soon as their glasses were empty, they filled them again, with a gesture of resigned weariness, but Mademoiselle Fifi emptied his every minute, and a soldier immediately gave him another.
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

The following Message was received from the President of the United States : To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : It would have been a source, fellow-citizens, of much gratification, if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that the belligerent nations, whose disregard of neutral rights has been so destructive to our commerce, had become awakened to the duty and true policy of revoking [Pg 4] their unrighteous edicts.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The Mission was, in the first instance, set on foot by the efforts of Lady Burdett-Coutts and others in 1847, when Sir James Brooke was in England and his doings in the Far East had excited much interest and enthusiasm, and was specially organized under the name of the "Borneo Church Mission."
— from British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

He felt entirely hopeless, even more so than if he'd been marooned in space.
— from Traveling Companion Wanted by Richard Wilson

As soon as the physician saw the poor young man, and felt his pulse, he perceived that the ignorant apothecary, who had been first employed, had entirely mistaken George’s disease, and had treated him improperly.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth