Happily, the progress of education, and the growth of a wholesome public [ 37 ] opinion, have made shameful the position of a European’s concubine; and both races have thus been saved from a mode of life equally demoralising to each.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I’m coming,” and Beryl rushed in, very flushed, dragging with her two big pictures.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Their accounts cannot always be reconciled the father painted from his fancy, and the Jesuit from his experience.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This may be accounted for by its being thought weak and unmanly by men, both of civilized and barbarous races, to exhibit bodily pain by any outward sign.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

If one imagined some spirit flying by the earthly globe in space in a million years he would see nothing but clay and bare rocks.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She was not aware of my knowledge of the parts, so inserting my finger into the upper part of the lips, I reached her clitoris, and began rubbing in and out, purposely, in an awkward way, but taking care to hit the right point.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Having got over the preliminary difficulty, “I set to work upon my cartoon; and being resolved to make it a greater work than had ever before been known, I forgot the prescribed size, for my head was far above the consideration of mere fact, and I did not reflect, that where Parliament had given an inch, I was taking an ell as the very lowest estimate.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 2. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

A reckoning of this kind, however, cannot always be regarded as absolutely correct.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

and he bade a dead man who had been four years in his grave, rise and bring him a white cock, a black raven, a green pigeon, and a gayly-colored peacock.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

What some of the soldiers said was not of a kind that could altogether be relied upon.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

And a big-headed boy’s old felt hat was not stingy in its quantities; and when its store ended, the errand could always be repeated.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

It is no slight advantage that in presence of a senseless and inconstant government there is found a society full of calmness and wisdom, and that that society pursues its quiet and majestic march, while the government is carried away by rashness.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

The sanded floor, cool and bright, received continually the red hollowed petals that bled from a rose on the table.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas