But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

She was loud in her praises of my indefatigable prick, which, with its vigour and superb dimensions, was beyond all she had ever seen or felt, and just fitted her large and luscious cunt, which had never before been so well filled.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

As to the first of these, Curiosity, it is onelie the inticement of Magiciens , or Necromanciers : and the other two are the allureres of the Sorcerers , or Witches , for that olde and craftie Serpent, being a spirite, hee easilie spyes our affections, and so conformes himselfe thereto, to deceaue vs to our wracke. Chap.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

… No one, at present,—and we shall jog along, and read up the details of vice in our dailies and weeklies, till we almost lose the savor of virtue, and till the last degraded end comes of it all, and blatant young America thrones herself on the shores of Britain and sends her eagle screech of conquest echoing over Old World and New."
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

The Infanta caused other and smaller houses to be built in her new street, to serve as residences for her “garde noble;” and for her “garde bourgeoise,” a small habitation each, some of which still remain, to remind us of English almshouses.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

No one belonging to the Ter Schilling ever came here after you; for I have been a settler here ever since, and it is not likely that I should forget such a circumstance.”
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

The tune went on, and she quite forgot how she had longed for death, and how his first anticipated coming had been dreadful beyond anything she had ever suffered, beyond cold, starvation, and misery.
— from Arethusa by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

He was in a machine gun emplacement which was hit by a small H. E. shell.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

Yet once she must have been like Ellen; her hair was the ashes of such a fire as burned over Ellen's brows, and she had Ellen's short upper lip, though of course she had never been fierce nor a swift runner, and no present eye could guess if she had ever been a focus of romantic love.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

Her pastor had given her two very beautiful devotional works, that charmed her beyond anything she had ever seen; but during one of the rare calls of her Catholic friend, (for her guide had advised her to renounce this friendship, but I, with a higher claim on her obedience, had forbidden this sacrifice,) during this call, these books were the subject of discourse, and Miss M—— told her she wished her nothing better to read, as they were both translations of Catholic authors, which she proved by bringing the originals in French at her next visit.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

While yet a boy, and throughout his long life, Jefferson loved books and studied hard every subject that came before his mind.
— from A Beginner's History by William H. (William Harrison) Mace