They lead My Excellency into the street, put me into a cab and drive me away.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I raised myself, and she drew me to her, and gave me a long kiss, licking her own sperm from off my lips and cheek; and desiring me to thrust my tongue into her mouth, she sucked it deliciously, while her soft hand and gentle fingers had again sought, found, and caressed my stiff-standing prick.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I tell you that he is a clever and dangerous man.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

That is as clear as daylight— MANDERS.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

I am of this opinion, because, while I was reading the newspaper, I observed him behind a low wooden partition, which was his private apartment, very busy pouring out of a number of those vessels into one, like a chemist and druggist making up a prescription.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Should she send his letter back to him, or should she answer him in a cold and decided manner?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Here, to avoid confusion, a difference must be made between washing and cleansing.
— 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

The witnesses called for the defense had none of them attended the deceased, but were called as experts in poisoning, viz., Dr. Tidy, a Crown analyst, Dr. Macnamara, and Professor Paul, who all gave positive evidence that neither the symptoms during life nor the appearance after death were such as could be attributed to arsenical poisoning ; that, in fact, they pointed away from , instead of toward, arsenic being the cause of death.
— from Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick

The first sentence already contains a double meaning.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

With a calm and deliberate manner therefore, in my feigned voice, one of the characteristics of which was lisping, I asked, "Pray, gentlemen, what may be your pleasure with me?"—"Why," said Gines, "our errand is with one Caleb Williams, and a precious rascal he is!
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

Pr o p o rti ó ne, a proportion, an equality, a correspondency, a due measure, a share, a rate, or size of any thing.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Annabel came up with Captain Mason and Christopher, and delayed my disclosure of the plan for escape.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

A History-painter paints man in general; a Portrait-painter, a particular man, and consequently a defective model.
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

When Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to Christianise England, in the time of the Romans, he was received and protected by Ethelbert, King of Kent, whose wife, daughter of Charibert, King of Paris, was a Christian, and did much for Augustine.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

The teacher, if he is a kind-hearted and considerate man, perhaps briefly commends the effort with some such dubious and equivocal praise as it is "Very well for a beginner," or "As good a composition as could be expected at the first attempt," and then proceeds to go over the exercise in a cool and deliberate manner, with a view of discovering and bringing out clearly and conspicuously to the view, not only of the little author himself, but often of all his classmates and friends, every imperfection, failure, mistake, omission, or other fault which a rigid scrutiny can detect in the performance.
— from Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind by Jacob Abbott

Autumn came, and Dr. Mälzer grew worse.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Here, however, water baptism had a much truer, and consequently a deeper meaning, than with the Christians, because it rested on the natural power and value of water.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach