“I can give the young lady lessons every morning at nine o’clock at my own home.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

mẽcadã tare ne fece dire el re poy cheL re deſpagia voleua eſere ſuo amicho lui era contentiſſimo de eſſer ſuo et diſſe pigliaſſemo hacqua et legnia et merchadantaſemo a nr̃o piacere
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The clay is then removed to large pans about a foot and a half in depth, where it remains exposed to the air until it is nearly dry--a tedious operation in our damp climate, as during the winter at least eight months are necessary, whilst during the summer less than half the time suffices.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

They say that evil would befall them if they failed to recite the lines every morning and night.
— from Spain from Within by Rafael Shaw

2. Direct repatriation, man for man and rank for rank, for sub-officers, Corporals, and soldiers in captivity for at least eighteen months, and not included in any of the classes mentioned in Article 1.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

The North Riding to consist of the Townships of Wallace, Elma, Logan, Ellice, Mornington, and North Easthope, and the Town of Stratford.
— from The British North America Act, 1867 by Anonymous

"So soon as I have made mine orisoun, Come night or morn, I 'dress me hastily, T' endite a ballad or a benisoun Unto my ladye dear: right busily I fashion songs and sing them lustily: Each morn a new one and each night a new, And Sundays three,—what more may lover do?
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

It is a less expensive method, and none the less sure.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

I am reading them now as a man, after having had a little experience myself; and now, when my mind is uninfluenced by romance, I bow in admiration.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

[But the criticism, "sensible" not merely in the humorous sense, which he most fully appreciated was that of Professor Seth, in a lecture entitled "Man and Nature."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Maidens who no longer expect marriage are not restrained at all, if they observe decorum it is only out of respect to custom."
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis