Our First Baby; We had Theories; What Some of Them Were; My Wife's Love for Me; My Sentiments; The Child's Easy Birth; Mother's Rapid Convalescence; The Child's First Bath; Forming Good Habits Early; No Crying at Night; Never Rocked to Sleep; His Bed; Keeping the Stomach and Bowels Right; Colic, Irritability and the Necessity for Diapers Eliminated; Number of Meals Daily; The Infant's Clothing; At One Year Old; Teething Gives Little Trouble; Requires Considerable Water; Learning to Creep, Stand, Walk and Talk by His Own Efforts; Invents His Own Amusements; Companionship With Parents; Mothering; Learning Self-control; Obedience; Playmates; 184 Notes 199 [ 9 ] STIRPICULTURE.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

The Deseret Evening News of Monday, June 22nd, 1868, in an extended editorial thus announced his death: "A prince and a great man has this day passed from among us!
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Now when he sought to press his initial advantage to a greater conclusiveness, she only told him to wait and, like Portia judging her lovers, allowed others to come pay court as well, while over all she reigned with a regal sort of despotism, encouraging no one more than another.
— from A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck

"Oh dear," exclaimed Nesta one morning at breakfast, "I am so sorry you are getting well, Bob."
— from Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

What do you think I have got to do every night of my—never mind—what do you think is now marked out as my dreadful punishment?’
— from Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series by Charles Dickens