Ere nightfall I hauled my skiff high and dry on the beach, laden with red rock-cod or the white-bellied ones of deep water, haddock bearing the black marks of St. Peter's fingers near the gills, the long-bearded hake whose liver holds oil enough for a midnight lamp, and now and then a mighty halibut with a back broad as my boat.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But I would advise you never to oppose the holy father's will; or if you see any young ladies about, never ask them any questions.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Dr. Marden, in "Pushing to the Front," shows that the average of the leaders are not above the average of ability.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Betel leaves, areca nuts, and tobacco, are also given to each giver of gifts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

‘If you will sometimes think of that, and look about now and then at your papa’s housekeeping, and endeavour to acquire a little habit—of accounts, for instance—’ Poor little Dora received this suggestion with something that was half a sob and half a scream.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The whole company, in gloomy, quiet attitudes, gazed at the sky, which seemed to grow lower and narrower, and to approach the earth nearer and nearer, until both, hiding beneath a dark veil, like lovers, began a mysterious discourse, interpreting their feelings in the stifled sighs, whispers, murmurs, and half-uttered words, of which the marvellous music of the evening is composed.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I away home, and there at the office all the afternoon till late at night, and then away home to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For a year she worked every day from sunrise until late at night and then after giving birth to a child she died.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

There exist a host of sensations which most men pass through life and never attend to, and consequently have only in an unconscious way.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But even courts of law are not able to adhere consistently to the maxim, for they allow voluntary engagements to be set aside on the ground of fraud, and sometimes on that of mere mistake or misinformation.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

He was allotted six hundred acres of upland and marsh land at Newbury, according to agreement made before he left his native country.
— from Historic Homes of New England by Mary Harrod Northend

But all of a sudden, the me that laid awake nights and thought, and the me that had come out in the sun that morning was the only me I had, and it could talk.
— from A Daughter of the Morning by Zona Gale

At one time, he showed a little anxiety now and then about a letter reaching its destination, and being duly received; peevishly refusing to mention to me even so much as the address on it.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

Carleton looked on at this pantomime with a curl on his lips, and now and then a little shiver of uncertain fear creeping over him.
— from Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith

It is indeed as it should be, for if genuine and sustained cooperation and mutual confidence cease to exist between individual friends and their local and national assemblies, the all-beneficent work of the Cause must cease and nothing else can enable it to function harmoniously and effectively in future.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

It is undoubted that many local cults existed in different parts of Egypt and that gods of many and varied origins were the presiding deities, but usually their power remained purely local and never attained to any great influence or fame.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

Touching my arm, he said, "White-Jacket, this here reminds me of Sing-Sing, when a draft of fellows in darbies, came on from the State Prison at Auburn for a change of scene like, you know!" After taking down four or five names, Mr. Bridewell accosted the next man, a rather good-looking person, but, from his haggard cheek and sunken eye, he seemed to have been in the sad habit, all his life, of sitting up rather late at night; and though all sailors do certainly keep late hours enough—standing watches at midnight—yet there is no small difference between keeping late hours at sea and keeping late hours ashore.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

These evils for land and nation are threatened as absolutely to the people, as they had been to the king.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 1 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

In the northern heavens played a soft light, and now and then a star shot.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

Life's length measured by what we have done for others,158-l. Light, a name applied to Ainsoph, because unable to express it by any other, 740-m. Light a pure emblem of and first emanation from the Etenal God, 617-l. Light a symbol of Hope to the candidate, 639-m. Light, Ahriman second born of the Primitive, 257-m. Light, all things caused by an emanation of a ray of, 286-u. Light an example of the emanation doctrine of the Gnostics, 248-l. Light, ancient symbols of, meaning, 77-m. Light and Darkness a marked feature of the Eleusinian Mysteries, 403-m. Light and Darkness, a prominent feature in the Mysteries, 402-l. Light and Darkness are the world's eternal ways, 581-m. Light and Darkness contesting for possession of the lunar disk, 468-l. Light and Darkness proceed from the idea of the Active and Passive, 659-l. Light and Darkness, the basis of Ancient Theology according to Plutarch, 402-l. Light and Fire; references to, 285-l. Light and Life emanations from Deity, the archetype of light, 572-m. Light and Whiteness a designation of Leniency, 769-u. Light as applied to Deity is the Substance from which Light flows, 740-m. Light became the first Divinity of the ancients, 443-l. Light coexistent with God; questions concerning, 739-l. Light comes from the etherial substances that compose the active cause, 659-l. Light defined in the book, Omschim, or Introduction to the Kabala, 740-u. Light, Fire, Flame, the Aor of the Deity, manifested in flame, out of the fire, 740-l. Light, Pire, Flame, the sons of the Phoenician Kronos, 740-l. Light, Pire, Flame, the Trinity of the Chaldean oracles, 740-l. Light, Fire not a pure, 251-u. Light for which all Masonic journeys are a search, 252-l. Light forthshone from Deity not severed or diverse from Him, 748-m. Light from above constituted three brains for Microprosopos when the letter He was born, 794-l. Light from the shattered vessels reascended to Binah then flowed down, 797-u. Light has no characteristics of matter, 744-u. Light, Human but a reflection of a ray of the Divine Light, 246-l. Light in excess, being veiled, may be received by those below, 795-l. Light inclosed in the seeds of species has its home in Universal Spirit, 783-m. Light initiates in Bacchian Mysteries cry Hail new-born, 522-u. Light is the creative power of Deity, 267-l. Light is the equilibrium of Shadow and Lucidity, 845-u. Light is the Father and Mother of all, 267-u. Light, modern and ancient conception of, 76-l. Light not Spirit, but the instrument of the Spirit, 98-l. Light not the body of the Protoplastes, but first physical manifestation, 98-l. Light of Ainsoph inheres in the Vessel as their Life, Light, Soul, 755-l. Light of Fire the symbol of the Divine Essence, 742-l. Light of the Countenance of God, the inmost Covering, Aur Penial, 749-m. Light of the Lodge a symbol of—, 240-l. Light of the Substance and that of the Garment in the Primal Ether, 750-m. Light of the Substance of the Infinite a Kabalistic expression, 743-l. Light of the Sun at midnight revealed to the Initiate, 389-m. Light of the Vessels is the Soul of the vessel and is active in them, 755-m. Light of the vestige of garment different from that of the Substance, 750-m. Light of the vestige of the Garment termed a point, Yod, a point in the center of Light, 750-m. Light (or knowledge) of God's existence came from the Power communicated to man by the Word, 598-u. Light, Ormuzd existed in the beginning in the primitive, 256-l. Light, perception of, is the Dawn of the Eternal Life, in Being, 100-l. Light, period of termination of the struggle between Darkness and, 257-l. Light Principle did its work, but the Evil Principle caused Him to be crucified, 567-m. Light-principle one of the ancient conceptions of Deity, 739-m. Light Principle put on the appearance of a human body, 567-m. Light Principle suffered in appearance only, 567-m. Light Principle took the name of Christ in the Messiah, 567-m. Light referred to in the Kabalah, 286-u. Light represented Ormuzd or Ahura Mazda, 612-u. Light seems an emanation from the Creator unfolding all things, 660-u. Light Substance in the Deity, 741-l. Light, symbol of truth and knowledge, 76-m. Light, symbolism of being brought to, 252-l. Light synonymous with Good, 660-m. Light that is the visible manifestation of God active throughout the Universe, 845-m. Light, the cause and principle of all that exists is a Divine Ray of, 267-u. Light the creature of the Unseen God who taught the True religion, 582-u. Light, the final revelation in the Eleusinean Mysteries was, 394-l. Light, the first divinity worshipped because it made known the Universe, 660-u. Light, the head of the universal organism, called Pooroosha, 673-u. Light the Life of the Universe, 575-u. Light, the object of Masonic search, brings us to the Kabala, 741-u. Light the principle of the real existence of primitive men, 443-m. Light the reason of being of the Shadow, 307-l. Light the symbol of most of the Indian and Persian Deities, 601-l. Light, to the Ancients, was the cause of life; flowed from God, 13-u. Light towards which all Masons travel, 256-l. Light, visible, is attended by a shadow proportional to that light, 847-l. Light wanted by the candidate wandering in darkness, 361-u. Light was divine to the Chaldeans and Phoenicians, 582-u. Light was the life of men, said St. John, 743-l. Light was the Life of the Universe, the substance of God and the Soul, 443-l. Light will return into the Plenitude when redemption is accomplished, 564-u. Light worshipped by Sabaeans, 13-u. Lighting and lights of Temples, meaning and reference, 411-u. Lights, Great, 11-m. Lights, Lesser,
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike