We were all expected to be in bed by lights-out.

The second reason is, the want of some approved and methodised treatise, defining the diseases which would exclusively require the actual cautery, the diagnosis or pathological state of others which might require its application, with comparative statements of the best mode of adustion of materials with which it should be effected;[…]

A few insinuated that the American was not first-rate in Shakespeare, and one or two snidely detected a twang of the backwoods in his accent; […]

The farmer's field requires regular tillings.