Write once a week, adding something to your letters each day.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens
From hensforth I shall tell you les effectz dicelles, et non point au contraire.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
“Oh,” said Mr Durrant; “she told you last evening, did she?”
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade
And be sure that you let each day have its play-hour.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
Well, Mr Simple, I did not call there for two or three days afterwards; I did not like to go too soon, especially as I saw the young lady every day in the Plaza.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
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