We laughed over the incident, when Mrs. Garland said: "Lizzie, during the entire war I used to think of you every day, and have longed to see you so much.
— from Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
So some of y e cheefe of y e company, perceiveing y e mariners to feare y e suffisiencie of y e shipe, as appeared by their mutterings, they entred into serious consulltation with y e m r . & other officers of y e ship, to consider in time of y e danger; and rather to returne then to cast them selves into a [92] desperate & inevitable perill.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
I think of you every day and many times a day.
— from Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 2 by Gustave Flaubert
Listen to me; I love you tenderly, I think of you every day and on every occasion: when working I think of you.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand
We think of you every day, and we desire to live only to do the holy will of our God.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley
Nothing like it in the county—a gen'leman's site, and you don't get that offered you every day.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy
“We wull also that euerich of y e poremen other tymes of y e day when they may beste entende and have leyser, sey for y e state and all y e sowlis abovesaide, iij sawters of y e most glorious Virgyne Mary.
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay
Did I ever refuse to obey you even during Lent, and on fast days?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
Loue in the twinckling of your eylids daunceth, 'Loue daunceth in your pulses and your vaines, 'Loue when you sow, your needle's point aduanceth '
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir
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