Hyphens In references to the OED (“New English Dictionary”), printed as italicized English words in ‘single quotes’, hyphen­ization does not always correspond to the OED form.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

So many balls he has had all day; but no opportunity of using them: he turns over now, execrating disloyal bandits; swears a prayer or two, and straight to sleep again.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The patricians, fearing that confusion might arise if the state were left without a head, made one of their own number every day assume the insignia of royalty, perform the usual sacrifices to the gods, and transact business for six hours by day, and six by night.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The long, insufferably hot, wearisome days, beautiful languorous evenings and stifling nights, and the whole manner of living, when from morning to night one is at a loss to fill up the useless hours, and the persistent thought that she was the prettiest young woman in the town, and that her youth was passing and being wasted, and Laevsky himself, though honest and idealistic, always the same, always lounging about in his slippers, biting his nails, and wearying her with his caprices, led by degrees to her becoming possessed by desire, and as though she were mad, she thought of nothing else day and night.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“I will read you the letter containing the accusation, at least,” said Villefort: “‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon , this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It chanced that a very wealthy farmer, by name Ferondo, contracted a great intimacy with him, a heavy, clodpate fellow and dull-witted beyond measure, whose commerce pleased the abbot but 170 for that his simplicity whiles afforded him some diversion, and in the course of their acquaintance, the latter perceived that Ferondo had a very handsome woman to wife, of whom he became so passionately enamoured that he thought of nothing else day or night; but, hearing that, simple and shallow-witted as Ferondo was in everything else, he was shrewd enough in the matter of loving and guarding his wife, he well nigh despaired of her.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It will not often happen that, of two houses similarly composed, one will be almost unanimous, and the other nearly equally divided; if a majority in one rejects a measure, there will generally have been a large minority unfavorable to it in the other; any improvement, therefore, which could be thus impeded, would in almost all cases be one which had not much more than a simple majority in the entire body, and the worst consequence that could ensue would be to delay for a short time the passing of the measure, or give rise to a fresh appeal to the electors to ascertain if the small majority in Parliament corresponded to an effective one in the country.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

A Guide to the Trees Alice Lounsbery Familiar Trees and Their Leaves Mathews Field and Forest Handy Book Dan C. Beard First Book of Forestry Roth Forest Trees and Forest Scenery Schwartz Grafton Press Handbook of Trees of New England Dame and Brooks Ginn & Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Shall I send them here, too?" "Oh, no!" exclaimed Dorothy, eagerly jumping up from her chair; "I'll go to meet Betsy myself, for she'll feel awful strange in this big palace.
— from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Little did that old nag ever dream, even in her palmiest days, that she could show such speed as she developed in that four-mile drive.
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

The letters p, i, e, r, r, e convey the idea of a stone to a Frenchman as readily as s, t, o, n, e do to ourselves.
— from The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler

Boylston mentioned the name of the arch-adversary of souls, while Mr. Baker, with a well-directed blow of his heel, reduced the can from a cylindrical form to one not easily described by any geometric term.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

Ben talks of nothing else, dreams of nothing else but her, and she is fighting temptation every day, and shows it.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

Ever since that Sarajevo murder I have thought of nothing else day and night.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

For not only the Lycian Sarpedon is an ἀλλοδάπος to the Trojans, but Greek pirates are usually said to attack ἀλλοδάποι , whereas they evidently were wont to plunder those of their own nation, even down to the time of Thucydides: and above all Eumæus, disgusted and worn out with the profligate misdeeds of the Suitors, thinks of moving off ἄνδρας ἐς ἀλλοδάπους , together with his oxen ( ἰόντ’ αὐτῇσι βόεσσιν ), by which he could not have meant more than a short passage to the Greek continent [825] .
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone