A priori ," he said, "one would think a question of nutrition could be answered by dietary and a question of assimilation by drugs."
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We held a council as to our next movements, and finally decided to begin as follows: Mary to lie down on her back, Lizzie reversed above her, Miss Frankland was to indulge in her letch for Lizzie, which was that of fucking her bottom-hole with her extraordinary clitoris, while I was to fuck Miss Frankland’s cunt, and postillion her smaller orifice with two fingers, Lizzie was to postillion Mary with her finger, while gamahuching her, Mary to apply the smaller dildo to my bottom-hole, and frig
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I asked him to help me, and presently he saved me from the great trouble I was in.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

As if forests and parks had swallowed up too little of the land, those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes; for when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country, resolves to enclose many thousand acres of ground, the owners, as well as tenants, are turned out of their possessions by trick or by main force, or, being wearied out by ill usage, they are forced to sell them; by which means those miserable people, both men and women, married and unmarried, old and young, with their poor but numerous families (since country business requires many hands), are all forced to change their seats, not knowing whither to go; and they must sell, almost for nothing, their household stuff, which could not bring them much money, even though they might stay for a buyer.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

A sad description I gave of Monsieur Colbrand, a person he sent down to assist Mrs. Jewkes in watching me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

At that time he was a profligate, having squandered all his property.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"Not yet," answered Peter, hastily shutting the window; for ever since he had been in search of the treasure he hated to have people stare at him.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His wife’s intrigue with the Count had also perfected her, so that when we all four dined together Italian was the only language spoken among us.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

And preyede hir, she wolde hir sorwe apese, And seyde, `Y-wis, we Grekes con have Ioye To honouren yow, as wel as folk of Troye.'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

And his men took Mahomet’s sword out of his sheath, whiles he slept, and therewith they slew this hermit, and put his sword all bloody in his sheath again.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And Theoderic also presented his sister with one of the promontories of Sicily, which are three in number,—the one which they call Lilybaeum,—and as a result of this Trasamundus was accounted the strongest and most powerful of all those who had ruled over the Vandals.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

he will owe you much, and it really seems a pity he should not have an opportunity of expressing his gratitude.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Salamis was a much more advantageous position, he said, than the coast of the isthmus, for a small fleet to occupy in awaiting an attack from a large one.
— from Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Kipps said he would, and produced his store.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She did not help him in any way, and perhaps her silence made him feel that he had done wrong to speak to her about his affairs.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

"You're kind of like a pioneer," he said, "going off where there isn't anybody.
— from Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The girl was sitting reading under a large old-fashioned mirror, and I was reading and writing a couple of yards away, when I heard a sound as if a shower of peas had been thrown against the mirror, and while I was looking at it I heard the sound again, and presently, while I was alone in the room, I heard a sound as if something much bigger than a pea had struck the wainscoting beside my head.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

He was a fool, as Pamphile has said, one with too much confidence in himself and too little in the good God.
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

Put your hand on me, Aunt Amandy, and I'll go slow with you," and presenting his sturdy little shoulder to Miss Page 37 Amanda on one side and drawing Rose Mary along with him on the other, Stonewall Jackson hurried them both away to the house.
— from Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess

Wilhelm noticed the wonderful child standing on the street near some other children at play: he showed her to Philina, who, in her lively way, immediately called and beckoned to the little one, and, this not succeeding, tripped singing down stairs, and led her up by the hand.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe