Meanwhile, alas, his Fotunatus' Purse turns out to be little other than the old 'vectigal of Parsimony.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I withdrew and laid her gently down on her side, bringing a tumbler of water, a sponge, and towel, I opened her splendid thighs, sponged and bathed her cunt, which showed but little of the torrent of sperm I had just poured into it.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

My arguments are based less on theories than on facts, and I think I can find no better way to bring the facts home to you than by quoting continually some example from the observations which suggested my arguments.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Well, perhaps that's what young Mr d'Urberville means," he admitted; "and sure enough he mid have serious thoughts about improving his blood by linking on to the old line.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

And without the bar of West Smithfield lieth a large street or way, called of the house of St. John there St. John’s street, and stretcheth toward Iseldon, on the right hand whereof stood the late dissolved monastery called the Charterhouse, founded by Sir Walter Manny, knight, a stranger born, lord of the town of Manny, in the diocese of Cambrey, beyond the seas, who for service done to King Edward III.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And there is Beech lane, peradventure so called of Nicholas de la Beech, lieutenant of the Tower of London, put out of that office in the 13th of Edward III.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

For the Junior Warden succeeds by law only to the office of Master, and, unless that office be vacant, he is bound to fulfill the duties of the office to which he has been obligated.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

It so happened that Mr. Winkle, senior, instead of being deeply engaged in reading the letter, as Mr. Bob Sawyer thought, chanced to be looking over the top of it at no less a person than Mr. Bob Sawyer himself; rightly conjecturing that the face aforesaid was made in ridicule and derision of his own person, he fixed his eyes on Bob with such expressive sternness, that the late Mr. Grimaldi’s lineaments gradually resolved themselves into a very fine expression of humility and confusion.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The dense brown line of the trees on the opposite bank appeared above it, like a dwarf forest floating in the sky.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Since this pink catechism was a lamp unto our feet, we suggested, during a thrilling burglar epidemic, that copies be left on the thresholds of rectory bedchambers.
— from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

Miss Chalice, who had a clever dexterity which impressed Lawson notwithstanding his contempt for feminine art, started a picture in which she tried to circumvent the commonplace by leaving out the tops of the trees; and Lawson had the brilliant idea of putting in his foreground a large blue advertisement of chocolat Menier in order to emphasise his abhorrence of the chocolate box.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Eight principal bridges led over the Tiber: of these three are still relics.
— from Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden

He placed the rifle against a neighboring 141 tree, and, drawing his hunting knife, proceeded first of all to bleed the deer, after which he started to work cutting it up, for it was too heavy by long odds to think of trying to carry the whole carcass to camp, now more than a mile distant.
— from Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan by St. George Rathborne

As it was incredible that a man such as I was could be lost on the threshold of his home I needed all the faculties that remained to me in order to think out the ways and means by which I could be found.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

The houses in the neighborhood were dark, as it was after midnight, and the vague bulk of the gas bag, looming over the top of the billboard, would hardly have claimed the attention of any chance passerby on the sidewalk.
— from Motor Matt's Daring Rescue; or, The Strange Case of Helen Brady by Stanley R. Matthews

Mr. Davis made a number of attempts to have the bill laid on the table or deferred to a subsequent day, but without success.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Then, his mother being landed, Ollie turns to offer the same attention to Erma, but to his astonishment he is anticipated in his act of gallantry by the Western Mr. Kruger.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter