"And I think, Miss Hart," said Doctor Mendel, in conclusion, "that you would better stay in Rockwell over night, and return to the city tomorrow."
— from Marjorie's New Friend by Carolyn Wells

Norman Doorway, St Germans Church There are some important remains of Norman architecture, notably the west front and part of the nave
— from Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I do not know whether it was on a holiday granted by the masters, or a holiday seized in right of Nature and her beautiful spring-time by the workmen, but one afternoon (now ten or a dozen years ago)
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Torn, and as though weary, the clouds hang about the mountain peaks that surround it, and the snow storm beats its exhausted wings against the mighty walls; it has spent its rage over night and its power is broken.
— from The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II by Wilhelmine von Hillern

“No,” said I resolutely, “on no account whatever; on the contrary, that is the proviso upon which I shall insist most strongly.
— from Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship by Harry Collingwood

and to the usual reply, “Linen; will you see it?” rejoined, “On no account, but we will drink your health.”
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

Direct oxidation or combustion of the carbon and hydrogen contained in the food, or in the tissues themselves; the division of alimentary substances into respiratory, or non-azotized, and azotized,—these doctrines are familiar even to the classes in our high-schools.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Scar'd at the awful Sight, Sedition shrunk in realms of night, And Order saw her peaceful reign restored."
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

These systemic nervous exhaustions may, as W. S. Christopher, of Chicago, has shown (in remarks on neuroses already cited), take unexpected local directions, especially involving, in accordance with the general law of reversal, evolution or degeneracy checks on excessive action.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot