“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”
We Are Seven, st. 1 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
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Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U. S. 914 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=99-830 (28 June 2000) (detailing what he deemed a constitutionally protected alternative to partial-birth abortion).

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”
Source: The Color of Magic

Et comme tout présent état d'une substance simple est naturellement une suite de son état précédent, tellement, que le présent y est gros de l'avenir.
La monadologie (22).
The Monadology (1714)

“n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
October. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page115 (1866)