Again I might rest: though the cloud of doubt would be as thick to-morrow as ever; the necessity for exertion more urgent, the peril (of destitution) nearer, the conflict (for existence) more severe.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

But, first escort Miss Underdown to the dining-room.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

This is not to be taken literally, but is a figurative expression much used in the sacred formulas to denote a serial interval of space.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of water on the floor—men who for six or seven months in the year never see the sunlight from Sunday afternoon till the next Sunday morning—and who cannot earn three hundred dollars in a year.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

As soon as the conspiracy was ripe for execution, Marcellinus, under the pretence of celebrating his son's birthday, gave a splendid entertainment to the illustrious and honorable persons of the court of Gaul, which then resided in the city of Autun.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For each magistrate usually has charge of some particular duty of government; while each citizen, in himself, has no particular duty of sovereignty.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After several other Figures, Epigram marched up in the Rear, who had been posted there at the Beginning of the Expedition, that he might not revolt to the Enemy, whom he was suspected to favour in his Heart.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

From early morn until late at night he would, with indefatigable zeal of body and mind, remain immersed in his sordid task of copying official documents—never going home, snatching what sleep he could on tables in the building, and dining with the watchman on duty.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Lucan noteth well the state of Rome before the Civil War, Hinc usura vorax, rapidumque in tempore foenus, Hinc concussa fides, et multis utile bellum.
— from The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon

The church is kept open from early morning until sunset.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

Westfield was at the bat, and it must have been the effect of Bill’s pitching for every man up made a hit, and the bases were soon filled.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis

Often, too, have we stood together from early morning until dark night, waist deep, on the duck points, I with a fowling-piece I was all but too young to carry, and brought back a hundred red-heads or canvas-backs in our bags.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

She went fading even more unostentatiously down a hallway when the group stopped cheerfully to pose for a solidopic girl from one of the news agencies.
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz

8:3 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

From early morning until after dinner he was engaged in the kitchen, or in setting to rights the different apartments of the station, and the result of his work was soon apparent.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis

Now I have no pain and am quite regular unless I overwork or stay on my feet from early morning until late at night.
— from Food and Health by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

[340] should find every morning, under a stone which she pointed out to him, a piece of money.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir