I practised the same method with my children, who all of them died at nurse, except Leonora, my only daughter, and who arrived to the age of five years and upward without other correction for her childish faults (her mother’s indulgence easily concurring) than words only, and those very gentle; in which kind of proceeding, though my end and expectation should be both frustrated, there are other causes enough to lay the fault on without blaming my discipline, which I know to be natural and just, and I should, in this, have yet been more religious towards the males, as less born to subjection and more free; and I should have made it my business to fill their hearts with ingenuousness and freedom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

why dare aint no eye lef at all.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Men of his race had loomed great in dim historic days, and though during the last two centuries no Dauntrey had done anything notable except lose money, sell land, go bankrupt, figure in divorce cases or card scandals, and marry actresses, they had never in their degeneration lost that charm which, in Charles II's day, had won from a pretty Duchess the nickname of the "darling Dauntreys."
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

If the reexport does not take place within 90 days, a Norwegian export license must be secured.
— from East-West Trade Trends Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

And no wonder, for every great scholar since the manuscripts of Martial were recovered in Western Europe has tried his hand at a definition, and none except Lessing has grasped it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

"She lay out on the doorstep and never even looked at the parlor sofa, and she chased the chickens, and stole the cat's milk, and barked at beggars, and darted about the horses' legs when we had guests.
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Symptoms: Diurnal and nocturnal emissions, loss of sexual power and wasting of the organs, general depression and emaciation.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

157 The description of Venus appearing, when the star which has obtained her name rises, is thus given:— Mostrava ya su resplandor la estrella, Que barre de la sombra neustra suelo, Y al su venir toda otra cosa bella Dexava su lugar alla en el cielo: Quando Venus salio, y al salir d’ ella Saliò el amor, y junto saliò el zelo, El zelo que de amor nace en las cosas, Y mas en las que nacen mas hermosas.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

"He works [125] somewhere in the daytime and never even looks in this direction when he's home.
— from Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin