With her long taper fingers she guided my prick—I trembled in every limb and almost felt sick with excitement—but when I felt the delicious sensation caused by the insertion of my skinned pintle between the smooth warm oily folds of the lady’s cunt—I gave but one shove which carried me up so that I swooned away on her belly and milk-white bosom.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

But whether the Araviscans are derived from the Osians, a nation of Germans passing into Pannonia, or the Osians from the Araviscans removing from thence into Germany, is a matter undecided; since they both still use the language, the same customs and the same laws.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

It is, indeed, to my unfortunate susceptibility to vivid impressions that all my misfortunes are due.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“It is singular,” she said, “that we cannot have a ‘De profundis’ for a man who makes us sing the ‘Te Deum’ so often.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When my uncle Toby and the corporal had marched down to the bottom of the avenue, they recollected their business lay the other way; so they faced about and marched up straight to Mrs. Wadman's door.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

This is all because social thought, owing to the imperative authority that is in it, has an efficacy that individual thought could never have; by the power which it has over our minds, it can make us see things in whatever light it pleases; it adds to reality or deducts from it according to the circumstances.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“Well, we shall all miss you quite as much as you will miss us,” said the master.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

" To my unutterable surprise, these words, harmless as they appeared to me , produced the same astounding effect on Pesca which the sight of Pesca had produced on the Count.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

It is my understanding some time in the early part of 1963, sir.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"For believe me, Ulick Sullivan, there is no deed that has not its reward!
— from The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman

And a more unfeminine spirit than it discovered, I have never known in one of her sex.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

In a word, if she was not the greatest, she was certainly one of the best and most unblemished sovereigns that ever sat upon the throne of England, and well deserved the expressive, though simple epithet, of “The good queen Anne.” H2 anchor NOTES: Note 107 ( return )
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The abundance of facts from the most unquestionable sources, the admirable arrangement, the keen and searching application of the argument, the masterly logic, and the manly eloquence of the speech will make it a document of truth and righteousness for all coming time.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

On this, and on many other occasions during the war, he withstood the voice of the populace, rejected the entreaties of the sanguine, and refused to adopt the plans of the rash, that he might ultimately secure the great object of contention.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Penny dreadfuls , an expressive term for those penny publications which depend more upon sensationalism than upon merit, artistic or literary, for success.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

A land-steward must understand surveying, the customs of the locality, the methods of sale and of labor, together with a little quibbling in the interests of those he serves; he must also understand book-keeping and commercial matters, and be in perfect health, with a liking for active life and horse exercise.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac