I began to live there from morning until night in closest intimacy with the plants and the old stones.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

Truth compels me to confess, notwithstanding, that it was one of the least wonderful of all the voyages I ever made, until near its close.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

On the 23rd it blew a fierce gale and a hot wind from west by north, which rendered us still more uncomfortable: nothing indeed could be done without risk in such a temperature, and such a climate.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

The hopes of Andalusia revived, as this mighty host stretched in lengthened lines along its fertile plains; from morning until night it continued to pour along, with sound of drum and trumpet; it was led on by the proudest nobles and bravest cavaliers of the land, and, had it possessed arms and discipline, might have undertaken the conquest of the world.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Various

“I don’t suppose they’ll murder us now in cold blood; we must trust their word for it—the word of a pirate,” he added aloud, with bitter scorn.
— from Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

They lived in a great old mansion erected in the middle of what was at one time a vast estate but which [17] had gradually shrunk through generations of mortgages until now it comprised about two thousand acres.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed

All hands, indeed, were employed from morning until night in clearing the ship of water, getting up jurymasts and repairing the worst damages, so that there might be a chance of keeping her afloat should bad weather come on.
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston

This claw is serrated on its inner edge, and from actual experiments made upon nightjars in captivity, we should surmise that its use is to free the long whiskers from the soft, silvery dust which usually covers the bodies of night-flying moths.
— from Poachers and Poaching by Watson, John, F.L.S.

The condition of the mesoblast undergoes no important change till the end of the period treated of in this chapter.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

At first the news seemed to produce scarcely any effect; the iron countenance of the old man underwent no immediate change—he only remained immoveable in the position in which he had received the shock; but presently Mr. Keelevin saw that he did not fetch his breath, and that his lips began to contract asunder, and to expose his yellow teeth with the grin almost of a skull.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt