Then with a start he rushed to the gateway, and looked eagerly down the road.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

Encouraged by this concession, she gradually came to move the stool on which she sat nearer and nearer to my table, until, after gaining a little every day during some weeks, she at last worked her way right up to me, and used to perch herself beside me whenever I worked.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

She hoped, as she could not help repeating, that she should get a letter every day, for that was no more than the duty of an affectionate husband, and as for her, she would think it over, and only on the first day, she would show some sign of life at every station.
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

c) The contention of the so-called Augustinians, that pure nature needs actual grace to save itself, and consequently has a claim to such grace at least ex decentia Creatoris and ex lege iustissimae providentiae , perilously resembles Baius' condemned proposition that the state of pure nature is impossible.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

The Greenlanders are likewise entirely different from the savages of Canada, who are tall and well proportioned, and though the tribes differ from each other, they do more so from the Laplanders.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

It is very fortunate for the sufferer from ballooning of the rectum to have in or near the anal canal those painful hints or symptoms of a very grave and long existing disease whose constitutional symptoms were well marked but attributed to other causes, especially to disease of the liver—an organ of so much solicitude that the poor liver-worshipping patient ought to receive more gracious response from it.
— from Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

Servant of all his powers, that faithful slave, Unsleeping Memory, strengthening with his toils, To every ruder task his shoulder gave, And loaded every day with golden spoils.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

If honest, he will be in earnest from the start, and gain a little each day in the right direction, till at last he finishes his course with joy.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy