One devil is called Craving, the other is called Temptation, and all the Arabs in the Soudan rolled into one are not so terrible or so strong as these two when a man is left to fight them by himself.
— from Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As she skilfully but coldly performed her duties, the heiress thought, as almost every day, morning and night she thought, of Sunia's soft hands and cooing voice.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

A touch of giddiness came upon her; then a knot rose in her throat, and she fought transiently, but with silent success, against a novel sensation that only slight self-surrender might have encouraged into turbid hysteria.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Mabel had brought a pillow, and put it under my head; and now she took out some sort of crochet-work, and seated herself on a chair close by me.
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

All this supposes, however, that men will not be made to conform by any means short of prosecution and deprivation; that the suspending of a severe penalty over men's heads is in itself a harmless device; and that religious systems are now stereotyped to our satisfaction, so that to deviate from them is mere wantonness and love of singularity.
— from Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

They walked toward the hut, and as they neared it he smelled a new smell, that of stale smoke and stale sweat overlying the general odor of decay.
— from Homo Inferior by Mari Wolf

[49] A neurasthenic sensitiveness to odors, specially sexual odors, is frequently accompanied by lack of sexual vigor.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis