They took it proudly as a homage to their virility, and the power of their charms over their new conquest, and were doubly lustful in consequence, little imagining it was all a well-acted scene, got up for an exhibition to please others, and show all their virile gifts.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The High Street stunk of oil; we wondered how people could live in it.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Capital lying idle is no better than grass.” Mari d’elle gropes his way to the edge of the bed and, puffing, sits down at his wife’s feet.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness:—Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

stems, 472 , 623-626 ; cases lacking in -i- stems, 531-537 , 627 , 634-636 ; in comparison, 356-360 ; advs., in comparison, 363 , 364 ; prons., in case, 692 ; verbs, 805-817 , 900 , 905 , 907 , 922-1019 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Its charm lasted in its full perfection for exactly three days.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

In common life it is established as a maxim, that the straightest way is always the shortest; which would be as absurd as to say, the shortest way is always the shortest, if our idea of a right line was not different from that of the shortest way betwixt two points.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

There were still two charges and one capsule left in it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a flower called "Love in Idleness," [720]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But to transfer the question from the ecclesiastical region into the region of common life, it is undoubtedly true that if a man or a woman has a strong sense of moral issues, a deep feeling of responsibility and sympathy, an anxious desire to help things forward, then a dramatic sense of the value of manner, speech, gesture, and demeanour is a highly effective instrument.
— from At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

My child leaped in its dark and silent room And cried, ‘I am,’ though all unheard by men.
— from Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is growing late, and Count Luigi is in great trouble lest midnight shall strike before the finish.”
— from Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain

This fortitude surprises, agitates, excites pity, and irritates the spectators against those who torment men whose constancy makes them looked upon as being innocent, who, it is supposed, may possibly be right, and for whom compassion likewise interests itself.
— from Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

A most interesting picture is that of Luxury, ‘Luxuria,’ who is seen with fourteen attendant Vices riding in a sumptuous four-wheeled car; Luxury is in front throwing violets.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

It is part of the very nature of Christianity to believe that from time to time the Church is invigorated by extraordinary impulses of divine life find grace, and singular effusions of the Holy Spirit: and to those who are able to reach at all the idea of supernatural causes in the Christian life, it is not difficult to apprehend the reality of such impulses.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various