“I was broad awake by this time, but, lying perfectly at ease, remained still, having no inducement to change my position.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The reason why these instruments are preferred, for this purpose, to the staphylagra is apparently that not being toothed like the latter instrument they would be both less painful and less likely to cause bleeding.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

And if he were never loosed, his malicious power would be less patent, and less proof would be given of the stedfast fortitude of the holy city: it would, in short, be less manifest what good use the Almighty makes of his great evil.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Then sinking on my belly she presented her lovely arse to the lascivious embraces of the salacious Frankland, whose first act was to stoop, embrace, kiss, and tongue the beautiful little pinky aperture, wetting it with her saliva, she brought her fine long clitoris, stiff as a prick, and plunged within.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Putrefaction beneath the ground in a closed box where the body becomes like pap, a blackened, stinking pap, has about it something repugnant and disgusting.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Inwardly to expel wind, are simples or compounds: simples are herbs, roots, &c., as galanga, gentian, angelica, enula, calamus aromaticus, valerian, zeodoti, iris, condite ginger, aristolochy, cicliminus, China, dittander, pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay-berries, and bay-leaves, betony, rosemary, hyssop, sabine, centaury, mint, camomile, staechas, agnus castus, broom-flowers, origan, orange-pills, &c.; spices, as saffron, cinnamon, bezoar stone, myrrh, mace, nutmegs, pepper, cloves, ginger, seeds of annis, fennel, amni, cari, nettle, rue, &c., juniper berries, grana paradisi; compounds, dianisum, diagalanga, diaciminum, diacalaminth, electuarium de baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa, pulvis ad status.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And it is ordered, if any person shall knowingly import into any harbour of this jurisdiction, any Quakers' books or writings, concerning their devilish opinions, shall pay for such book or writing, being legally proved against him or them the sum of five pounds; and whosoever shall disperse or conceal any such book or writing, and it be found with him or her, or in his or her house and shall not immediately deliver [340] the same to the next magistrate; shall forfeit or pay five pounds, for the dispersing or concealing of any such book or writing.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Cousin Betty.] LEBAS, probably a son of the preceding.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Seeing then that life is the most complete initiation into all these things, it ought to be full of ease of mind and joy; not as most people wait for the festivals of Cronos 761 and Dionysus and the Panathenæa and other similar days, that they may joy and refresh themselves with bought laughter, paying actors and dancers for the s
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

There, also, was the Globe Theater, of which Shakspeare became licensed proprietor, and near which he lived.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

For years the state conventions of the dominant party had attracted but little public attention.
— from The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day

Pharold paused and gazed; and emotions as mingled, but less painful, affected his bosom, as those which had been experienced by Lord Dewry when he had last looked towards the same building.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The figure was that of a youth, done by a master of the times—the head and shoulders of a youth who seemed to be looking passionately at something outside the picture.
— from Christmas: A Story by Zona Gale

She lived the larger half of her life apart from him; but Lady Palliser and her gossips believed that in so doing the young couple sacrificed inclination to prudence.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Meanwhile, gallantly as the operations before Lille had been conducted, the Allies had made but little progress, and 'twas said when we returned to the Duke of Marlborough's camp, that the siege would never be brought to a satisfactory end, and that the Prince of Savoy would be forced to raise it.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

St. James was by birth a Galilean, and by profession a fisherman with his father and brother, living probably at Bethsaida, where St. Peter also dwelt at that time.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

The old lady, with that keen insight into the future which often distinguishes the aged, said, ‘We’ll no’ be long parted, any way.
— from Tobias Smollett by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

The bag looked plump, as if it held much more than the pocket-book and the jelly.
— from The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett