“Tell John to ride over with that early to-morrow morning, and ask Miss Wayne for an answer,” he said to the servant, who wondered at his face, and then walked slowly with hopelessness in his very pose towards his room, where, as it happened, he slept heavily until late next morning.
— from The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

The men came in, and Mrs. Starling held an animated dialogue with her factotum about farm affairs; while Diana sat behind her big coffee-pot—not the one she had used last night, and wondered if that was all a dream; more sadly, if she should ever dream again.
— from Diana by Susan Warner

We had never seen her until last night, as she told the colonel.
— from The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

He never succeeded, however, until last night; and, as good luck would have it, he was not destined to keep me long."
— from Frank in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon

It was certainly hers—it was, in fact, the handkerchief she had used last night; she remembered drying her hands with it after helping Barbara
— from Head of the Lower School by Dorothea Moore

"Hell, we could have sent her up last night.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover

"I never saw him until last night, but I'd bank on him," said Prale.
— from The Brand of Silence A Detective Story by Harrington Strong

No wonder that the statue hung upon Leontes' neck, and blessed her husband and her child.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb