Other representative gentlemen were on their backs, of whom he could admit that the protracted nightwork had done them harm, with the reservation that their constitutions were originally unsound.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The ninth chapter, wherein they "plausibly discourse of news of the Court and of courtiers of this day, and of many other matters of delight," is full of Falstaffian paradox, and reminiscent of Justice Shallow's relations with Jane nightwork.
"Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592"
Arthur Acheson
I don't know why it is the hours fly with such a strange celerity in the monotony and solitude of such nightwork.
"The House by the Church-Yard"
J. Sheridan Le Fanu