"She had been sleeping for six hours before the faintest hint of a midsummer daybreak was discernible. She awoke from the vivid dreaming which makes the margin of our deeper rest." From The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot. Also not sure whether "before the faintest hint of a midsummer daybreak wa...

In James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933), Rutherford says: I don't care much for Wyland. I can't stand his type—all that primness and mountainous self-importance. And the complete head-prefectorial mind—did you notice it? Little phrases about 'putting people on their honour' and 'telling tales out ...

"too late for everything, perhaps, but to rush away from the last act of basenss-the tasting of joys that were wrung from crushed hearts", from The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot. Is it some kind of sarcasm?

The poem You said you will come by Hemurah Tohti (from Drops of Melodies) reads as follows: You sent the news that you were coming I wake up full of joy in the morning Many years have passed My eyes never stop looking To the direction you arrive Many spring pased now You wanted to come but could...