“And is not this daughter dead?” demanded Monte Cristo; “I fancy I have heard so.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In those latitudes, where there is no twilight, day drops dead into night, even on an August day, before seven of the clock.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

The Winnipeg Police Force was woefully inadequate in point of strength, there being no spare men for emergencies, and hence Sergeant Cameron found it necessary to do double duty that night, and he was prepared to do it without grumbling, too.
— from The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan by Ralph Connor