I am not used to staying up late.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Her mouth was just as he had last seen it a year ago, fresh and whimsical and virginal as a child's; but her eyes were scorched and dazed like the eyes of a shipwreck survivor or any other person who has been forced unexpectedly to stare upon life's big emotions with the naked eye.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

For a long time it was doubtful on which side victory was to incline, but at last ten English vessels unexpectedly appeared in the offing, and ranging up soon afterwards as close to the share as was possible, opened their fire upon the still unbroken lines of the French.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The stocks are cut into lengths of about ten inches, a gauge being used to secure uniform length.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

I remember I used to sit up late into the night writing very long letters to him about all I had seen, to interest him during his illness.
— from The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter

It is late, and you are too unwell to stay up longer.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Only man and Dango ate until they swelled up like a dead rat.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This so alarmed Magnhild that she was unable to sleep until late that night.
— from Magnhild; Dust by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Whilst calling their dogs away from our donkeys, they spoke to Esmeralda; as they looked up, they saw us looking down, from our camp.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

"The father was a self-taught man, deeply versed in the mysteries of science, and, as he could tell the name of every flower that blossomed in the wood and grew in the garden, and used to sit up late of nights at his books, or reading the mystic story of the starry heavens, men thought he was crazed or bewitched, and avoided him, and even hated him, as the ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

We were gentlemen, used to sit up late, and should have been sitting up somewhere else had we not been in the House of Commons.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell