I am sure that if I had the courage I should spend the rest of my life in telling everybody—stamping and branding it into them until they all felt their part in its abomination as I feel mine.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

“It will be rather lonely in the evening,” she said, “sitting by the fire.”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"I should so like to see it printed soon ," was all Beth said, and smiled in saying it; but there was an unconscious emphasis on the last word, and a wistful look in the eyes that never lost their childlike candor, which chilled Jo's heart, for a minute, with a foreboding fear, and decided her to make her little venture "soon."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 486] the separate notice of any uniform hum in the ear, or light in the eye, or weight of clothes on the body, though not one of them is inoperative on the complexion of our feeling.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

if I am so low in the eyes of such a grand lady. . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The happiness of futurity lies in the ecstasy of the soul in feeling freed from the trammels of matter, and unhappiness is the doom of a soul which was full of remorse at the moment it left the body.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

late in the evening much to the satisfaction of ourselves and the comfort of our horses we arrived at the desired spot and encamped on the steep side of a mountain convenient to a good spring.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We know that in antiquity Mount Algidus, an outlying group of the Alban hills, was covered with dark forests of oak; and among the tribes who belonged to the Latin League in the earliest days, and were entitled to share the flesh of the white bull sacrificed on the Alban Mount, there was one whose members styled themselves the Men of the Oak, doubtless on account of the woods among which they dwelt.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It was probably from having none but salt provisions, and possibly from our having run very rapidly into hot weather, after having been so long in the extremest cold.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

It was late in the evening before I joined the company.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

"Woman's safety in society lies in two elements: her own virtue and intelligence, and the consequent respect for her which such a character inspires.
— from The True Woman A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman vs. Ballot by Justin D. (Justin Dewey) Fulton

3. Russia and the East Russia The standard of length is the English foot, introduced by Peter the Great.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

At last, toward daybreak, the dark clouds slowly lifted and with the first light in the east the sounds ceased.
— from Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Caroline Clifford Newton

By looking into two explanations for the literal acceptation by some people in the East of those laws of Manu which seem to teach the transmigrating into brutes, insects, and so on, we can see how the true student of this doctrine will not fall into the same error.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

The suburbs were captured late in the evening, but the walls were impregnable.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

All this constitutes his life; of all this Literature is the expression; so that Literature is to man in some sort what autobiography is to the individual; it is his Life and Remains.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

But for the greater part of the time, I believe, he was hardly aware of my existence; the vacant, flushed look was almost always in his face when we met, and he stayed out so late in the evening that it was not often his stumbling footsteps aroused me when he came upstairs to bed.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Later in the evening she confided to Frances that it all seemed too happy.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

On Saturday the fourteenth of August, 1773, late in the evening, I received a note from him, that he was arrived at Boyd's inn [42] , at the head of the Canongate.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

Any serious attempt at landing by the enemy was, in Viscount Jellicoe's opinion, "not very likely in the earliest days of the war, the nights were comparatively short, and the Expeditionary Force had not left the country.
— from Deeds of a Great Railway A record of the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway company during the Great War by G. R. S. Darroch