We must never look for discretion in first love.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In the friends and servants of her husband she should confide more than in his other wives, and finally she should have a liking for drinking parties, going to picnics, attending fairs and festivals, and for carrying out all kinds of games and amusements.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

On trouva qu'il ne lui manquoit rien d'essentiel a la vie; & son pere pour faire voir un essai de son experience, entreprit d'achever l'ouvrage de la Nature, & de travailler a la formation de l'Enfant avec le meme artifice que celui dont on se sert pour faire ecclorre les Poulets en Egypte.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

During the last few days there had almost been a complete rupture between the two households, as I have mentioned incidentally already.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On the eighth day after General Miller had asked permission of the Iloilo village Hampdens to enforce the orders of the President of the United States, the “Federal Government of the Visayas,” through its President, Señor Lopez, finally deigned to notice Mr. McKinley’s proclamation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It produces clusters of edible, sour berries: Calamus sp . kalapi 2 (not without l ) a a defect in coconut trees manifested by the fronds, such that the lowest fronds do not hang but tend to be vertical and easily break off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

C’est alors que se formèrent ces bandes qu’on vit parcourir le royaume et étendre sur toutes les provinces le fléau de leurs inclinations destructives, répandre partout l’effroi, la misère, le deuil et le désespoir; mettre les villes à contribution, piller et incendier les villages, égorger les laboureurs, et se livrer
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Sus aguas son muchas, claras y saludables, pues no hay amagamiento de serranía ni ceja de montaña que no brote [1] cristalinos arroyos, que cruzando la tierra con la frescura de sus raudales, la fecundan de calidad, [2] que no hay cosa que en ella se siembre que con admiración no produzca, ayudando a su fertilidad la variación de su temperamento, pues a cortas distancias, según la altura o bajío que hace la tierra, se experimenta frío, cálido o templado, y de esta variedad de temples se origina su mayor excelencia, pues lo que en un sitio no produce, en otro se multiplica, y lo que en una parte se esteriliza, en otra se fecunda, y
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

in Fam. 4, 5, 3, to exchange life for death . 1390.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It was the record of a Christian hero, Doctor, a Christian martyr as well, as I discovered on reading the record of the last four days.
— from The Mountain of Fears by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland

When infants scream loudly from hunger or pain, the circulation is affected, and the eyes tend to become gorged with blood: consequently the muscles surrounding the eyes are strongly contracted as a protection: this action, in the course of many generations, has become firmly fixed and inherited: but when, with advancing years and culture, the habit of screaming is partially repressed, the muscles round the eyes still tend to contract, whenever even slight distress is felt: of these muscles, the pyramidals of the nose are less under the control of the will than are the others and their contraction can be checked only by that of the central fasciae of the frontal muscle: these latter fasciae draw up the inner ends of the eyebrows, and wrinkle the forehead in a peculiar manner, which we instantly recognize as the expression of grief or anxiety.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

"I'm sure we'll learn to work together smoothly in these last few days.
— from The Space Pioneers by Carey Rockwell

In this manner they unconsciously advanced close to me, when suddenly rising from the ground I gave a loud shout, at which the startled birds were so panic-struck that they literally fell down, and fluttering their wings, without having the power to fly, looked at me with rolling eye-balls, while their beaks opened as if to call for help, emitting nothing
— from Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

"These last few days it's been almost beyond holding in; it's the spring, I suppose, the good road weather and the sun.
— from William—An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

Mr. Isaiah Teague took the same view, and further supported the recommendation that greater facilities should be given, not only to the mineowners to build cottages for their men, but also that the operatives themselves should be enabled to buy small plots of land for the purpose, they being now frequently obliged to live far distant from their places of work, there being few, if any, houses situated near them.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls