And that those parents who gave their children a good education deserved more honour than those who merely beget them: for that the latter only enabled their children to live, but the former gave them the power of living well.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Ever since the early spring your cattle have been in my copse and garden every day.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"There's visitors coming and going every day, as you know, sir," he said; "and without the name of the house 'tis impossible to find 'em.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the barber; Don Luis gave one of his servants, who ventured to catch him by the arm to keep him from escaping, a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood; the Judge took his part; Don Fernando had got one of the officers down and was belabouring him heartily; the landlord raised his voice again calling for help for the Holy Brotherhood; so that the whole inn was nothing but cries, shouts, shrieks, confusion, terror, dismay, mishaps, sword-cuts, fisticuffs, cudgellings, kicks, and bloodshed; and in the midst of all this chaos, complication, and general entanglement, Don Quixote took it into his head that he had been plunged into the thick of the discord of Agramante's camp; and, in a voice that shook the inn like thunder, he cried out: "Hold all, let all sheathe their swords, let all be calm and attend to me as they value their lives!"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the barber; Don Luis gave one of his servants, who ventured to catch him by the arm to keep him from escaping, a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood; the Judge took his part; Don Fernando had got one of the officers down and was belabouring him heartily; the landlord raised his voice again calling for help for the Holy Brotherhood; so that the whole inn was nothing but cries, shouts, shrieks, confusion, terror, dismay, mishaps, sword-cuts, fisticuffs, cudgellings, kicks, and bloodshed; and in the midst of all this chaos, complication, and general entanglement, Don Quixote took it into his head that he had been plunged into the thick of the discord of Agramante’s camp; and, in a voice that shook the inn like thunder, he cried out: “Hold all, let all sheathe their swords, let all be calm and attend to me as they value their lives!” All paused at his mighty voice, and he went on to say, “Did I not tell you, sirs, that this castle was enchanted, and that a legion or so of devils dwelt in it?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ferrers, who tells me of my Lady Castlemaine’s and Sir Charles Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, and growing every day more and more; and that upon a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queen’s Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward Montagu, her Master of the Horse, who should have the precedence in taking the Queen’s upperhand abroad out of the house, which Mr. Montagu challenges, it was given to my Lord Chesterfield.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A neighbouring garden contains a good Elizabethan dovecot.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

Here, at Detroit, some of the finest steamers in North America come and go every day, connecting it with the east, and have begun already to search out the distant west and north.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

By this time the popular adulation of McClellan was giving place to a general imitation of the growling of the Jacobins, now well organized in the terrible Committee and growing each day more and more hostile to the Administration.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

Besides his own three-volume stories of The Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations , Dickens admitted into it other stories of the same length by writers of character and name, of which the authorship was avowed.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

It has been my pleasure to visit and revisit these wall‑paintings over a period of a quarter of a century, and growing experience does but enhance my admiration.
— from Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson

Of petty souls whose joy is defamation, Of malice, envy, cruelty, and greed Each day supplies its sickening revelation, And makes imperative my spirit's need To sleep and to forget.
— from Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

Therefore travellers in these days come and go, either disparaging or fulsomely praising, just as some {3} do who have visited England, and give a bad impression of our people and homes.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

displayed their rejoicing with indecent ostentation, and even the calmer and wiser adherents of his high-minded son could not refrain from triumphant exultation, consternation, dismay, and mourning spread throughout the middle and lower classes of the people, through the clergy of the real Anglican church, and through the greater part of the barons who claimed a genuine English descent.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James