For the natural property of dread which we have in this life by the gracious working of the Holy Ghost, the same shall be in heaven afore God, gentle, courteous, and full delectable.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

as you have devised new methods to satisfy male lust, grant the same privilege to women; let them have intercourse with one another like men, girding themselves with the infamous instruments of lust, an unholy imitation of a fruitless union.” Herondas, Mime vi : KORITTO Two women friends METRO and A Female Domestic.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Instead of attempting to secure the allegiance of his son by the generous ties of confidence and gratitude, he resolved to prevent the mischiefs which might be apprehended from dissatisfied ambition.
— 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

Within 't was brilliant all and light, A thronging scene of figures bright; It glowed on Ellen's dazzled sight, As when the setting sun has given Ten thousand hues to summer even, And from their tissue fancy frames Aerial knights and fairy dames.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Their voices, also, were very pleasant to him, heard at a distance, all swarming and intermingling together as flies do in a sunny room.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They’d spoil my appetite for dinner.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Top up , a finishing drink.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

In cases of confinement, twelve days are spent in the remotest hut, and five days in the nearer one.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

If, now, nature has produced a sexual impulse purely for the sake of preserving the species, she has given fuller expression to sexuality and the maternal instinct when she has endowed it with an especial impulse in at least a few definite cases.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The Linda shrugged her shoulders, took a second phial from her bosom, and opening the poor girls mouth introduced a few drops of cordial between her livid lips.
— from The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure by Gustave Aimard

In the August following Dean Stanley’s death, I made, with my friend Harrison and some of my family, a tour in Germany.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

Lady Bathurst has done me another good turn for Fanny Stewart, that is, for her husband; there was a charming letter from Fanny Stewart a few days ago.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth

I did not, however, think it safe to admit him, but told him to go back to his house for a few days, until he should be able to ascertain that he was quite well; he accordingly returned to his apartments, but expired that evening, and before day-break his body was in such a state, that his feet were actually putrified.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

A few days!
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

Having given a few directions to the men who were on board, Philip returned to the hostelrie where he had secured apartments for himself and Amine.
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

There is a fell and terrible destroyer, which murders peace in hearts and homes, whose very breath is a mildew and a blight, in whose desolating track follow woe, want, and ruin; a fierce, insatiable appetite, trebly cursed, that makes of life a loathsome degradation, and fills dishonored graves, blighting all that is divine and godlike in human nature, sealing the gushing fountain of maternal tenderness, and teaching even a mother's heart forgetfulness.
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The truth is that just after the meeting he left in his private car for the West, intending to go over the L. S. & D. Road, but I am sure that when he realises the effect of his reticence on the business affairs of the country, he will be prompt to make his explanation, and save any further depreciation of securities.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

The latter replied, with extreme politeness, that the 100,000 francs received by comte Jean a few days before the king was taken ill, and the 50,000 paid to madame de Mirepoix recently, must be a convincing proof, in my eyes, of his friendly intentions towards me, but that he had no money at present in his possession, the first he received should be at my disposal.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de