The Count, who had split his sides with laughter as she recounted this extraordinary indulgence in every enjoyment of lust, related in the amusing patois of Piedmont, told us that notwithstanding such excessive indulgence in both orifices, and by pricks, many of which were of immense dimensions, not the slightest appearance of such ample stretching could be detected on the closest examination, and that in either orifice she could almost nip your prick off.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I’ll be a herdsman and by performing my tasks carefully I’ll make my employer like me.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

4. Filtrition , is straining of a liquid body through a brown paper: make up the paper in form of a funnel, the which having placed [216] in a funnel, and the funnel and the paper in it in an empty glass, pour in the liquor you would filter, and let it run through at its leisure.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

These three expeditions may be compared in their resemblance of the greatness of numbers, their passage through the Greek empire, and the nature and event of their Turkish warfare, and a brief parallel may save the repetition of a tedious narrative.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

(→) v 1 [A; b] put, mix with water.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

—Me conviene si puedo obtener algo bueno por mi dinero,—repuso el hombre.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

There one lays one’s finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public women.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

" She answered by pressing my hand.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In 2 of those in whom it appeared before puberty, menstruation began late; in the third it rose almost to nymphomania on the day preceding the first menstruation.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

It now appeared that as a busy professional man the outspoken Bompas had gone far out of his way to play Mahomet to his patient's mountain.
— from The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The Conference at The Hague has facilitated future recourse to arbitration, by providing means through which, a case arising, a court is more easily constituted, and rules governing its procedure are ready to hand; but it has refrained from any engagements binding states to have recourse to the tribunal thus created.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The Figures of nails and crucifying appurtenances, are but precariously made out in the Granadilla or flower of Christs passion; And we despair to behold in these parts that handsome draught of crucifixion in the fruit of the Barbado Pine.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

"By glory, but he's even better than I thought him, Did you see a black powder mark on his face?"
— from The Crisis — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

The best and least enthralled of his pupils belong to the Roman school: Bernardino Pinturicchio, less praised by Vasari than he deserves, without the correctness of his master, and with more Gothic profusion of gold-lace and brocade, possesses magnificence of plan, expression of countenance, and propriety of composition.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

He resembled the primitive Romans in that besides coming of a brilliant family and besides possessing much strength of body he was still further gifted with a shrewd intelligence: and he behaved with great bravery, with great fairness, and with great good faith toward all, both friends and enemies.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Yet we know that in every large city there are hundreds of men whose business it is to discover girls thus hard pressed by loneliness and despair, to urge upon them the old excuse that “no one cares what you do,” to fill them with cheap cynicism concerning the value of virtue, all to the end that a business profit may be secured.
— from A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams

"I would stop the imposition, approved of custom, connived at by parents, made possible by the state of ignorance in which we are carefully kept—the imposition upon a girl's innocence and inexperience of a disreputable man for a husband."
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand