There is not one of them that is not part of the common speech, or which demands a note or an explanation.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And his story of waiting day and night for her forgiveness?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The absurd abstraction of an intellect verbally formulating all its evidence and carefully estimating the probability thereof by a vulgar fraction by the size of whose denominator and numerator alone it is swayed, is { 93} ideally as inept as it is actually impossible.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Well, they was other kind of quests too, but mostly you married somebody, or was dubbed a night, or found the party you was looking fur, in the end.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Summary of Western Development and National Politics While the statesmen of the old generation were solving the problems of their age, hunters, pioneers, and home seekers were preparing new problems beyond the Alleghanies.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Plenty of fresh air and sunlight, open windows day and night, and good plain food, are most powerful aids to resisting disease.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

Knoweth not beautifully now our love, That Life, here to this festival bid come Clad in his splendour of worldly day and night, Filled and empower'd by heavenly lust, is all
— from Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

"Oh, there can be no mistake about that," said one; "when did a natural Christian's coffin stick in the mud in that way?"
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

Whut you skeered ob when dey ain’ no ghosts?”
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough