We must seek some natural Paradise, some garden of the earth, where our simple wants may be easily supplied, and the enjoyment of a delicious climate compensate for the social pleasures we have lost.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There you have it to the ballocks in your lascivious and delicious cunt,” &c. She grew madly lewd, called me her own dear delightful fucker.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“A dearer costume could not be imagined; all the dresses are quite new.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If it be objected that, after all, religious dogmas, involving rewards and penalties in another world, are at the root of conduct as above described; cases could probably be adduced where the actors possessed no religions faith whatever.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

In those old days, to load a steamboat at St. Louis, take her to New Orleans and back, and discharge cargo, consumed about twenty-five days, on an average.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

El zum-zum , sedentario en esta isla, habita (si así puede decirse [3] ), en las cavidades formadas en las barrancas; sus pequeños nidos son dignos de admirarse por el modo y perfección de su labor: compónelos artísticamente con la lana o seda de la flor de calentura , aforrados de casaisaco , colocándolos en la bifurcación de las ramas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

As Divine Wisdom was sometimes expressed Ath-Ain, or Αθηνα ; so, at other times, the terms were reversed, and a Deity constituted called An-Ait.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

The trial also of different causes is allotted to different persons; as at Lacedaemon all disputes concerning contracts are brought before some of the ephori: the senate are the judges in cases of murder, and so on; some being to be heard by one magistrate, others by another: and thus at Carthage certain magistrates determine all causes.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Lind believed that a damp, cold climate, such as that of the Low Countries, was conducive to scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Come to me——” A dreadful cry came from the girl’s throat, her eyes dilated with horror, her eyebrows were distorted and drawn apart by an unspeakable anguish; she read in Raphael’s eyes the vehement desire in which she had once exulted, but as it grew she felt a light movement in her hand, and the skin contracted.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

As a discerning critic can guess Frank Reynolds is slow and careful in his method, and though the central idea of a drawing is frequently the inspiration of the moment, its elaboration is a matter which occupies time, and the picture passes through many stages before attaining in the artist's mind completion.
— from Frank Reynolds, R.I. by A. E. (Alfred Edwin) Johnson

Take firm pippins, pare them and take out the cores, leaving them whole; or after you have cored them, cut them across in two pieces, they will then be in rings; put them in cold water as fast as they are pared, to keep them from turning dark; make a syrup of a pound of loaf-sugar, and half a pint of water to each pound of apples; wipe the apples, and put in as many as will go in, without one laying on another; let them boil swiftly till they look clear, then take them up carefully on dishes, and put in some more; when all are done, if the syrup should seem too thin, boil it up after the apples are taken out; cut the peel of several lemons in thin rings, boil them in a little water till they are soft, and throw them in the syrup after the apples are taken out; put the syrup in a bowl, and set all away till the next day, when put the apples in glass jars or large bowls, spread the lemon peel about them and put the syrup on the top; paste several thicknesses of paper over, and set them in a dry cool closet.
— from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott) Lea

For He heal 'em er all sorts er diseases an' de wust er all de complaints called de Divers!
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

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— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

It was a deliciously calm, clear evening, with every promise of the fine weather lasting.
— from Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins

An old man in a dazed condition came from the cellar at the end of the passage and told me that all the people had gone.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

If I could have escaped, and slipped clear from the room, I would have done so without scruple; but the stairs were on the farther side of the great room which we were entering, and a dense crowd cut me off from them; moreover, I felt that St. Alais' eye was upon me, and that, if he had not framed the ordeal to meet my case, and extort my support, he was at least determined, now that his blood was fired, that I should not evade it.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman