And by the end of the day she is so tired that she falls asleep when I read aloud to her in the evening.
— from Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin

But now all the parts are ready and to hand in the Erecting shop.
— from The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work by L. K. Yates

But Nancy was the baby and a little spoilt even by her sensible mother, and it took a good deal of scolding to put her out of conceit with herself; so, though she had strict orders on no account to go to the cottage again till she was sent for, she managed to be by the roadside at that hour in the evening when Mr. Crayshaw's post-chaise always arrived on the occasions of his visits to Oakfield.
— from Two Maiden Aunts by Mary H. Debenham

"Maria my dearest wife," said Edward Armstrong, rising and throwing himself into the easy-chair she had placed for him, "my troubles are about money; do you care to hear about them?"
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

Swedenborg has absolved God from the reproach attaching to Him in the estimation of tender souls for the perpetuity of revenge to punish the sin of a moment—a system of injustice and cruelty.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

He was gentle and considerate to her, and offered to read aloud to her in the evenings.
— from The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome

I find in it only the effusion of one learned in the Scriptures who regards as the highest ideal, that every one of the Jewish people should know the Law by heart.”
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

This Sam tried earnestly and honestly to do, going with her for long walks when the new call, the business had begun to make to him, would have kept him at his desk, reading aloud to her in the evening, urging her to shake off her old dreams and to busy herself with new work and new interests.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

[Pg 414] When he tentatively approached the subject of literature with Miss Alicia, she glowed at the delightful prospect of his reading aloud to her in the evenings—“reading improving things like history and the poets.”
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

The events of the day are recounted at the home in the evening, and the contributions of the members of the family are deposited as assets in the recitation the next day.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson