I pretended complete loss of consciousness, which she believing, she gently felt, and even frigged a little, my prick, pressing me the while close to her body, and then I felt a shudder run through her whole frame.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Let the climate and vegetation change, let other competing rodents or new beasts of prey immigrate, or old ones become modified, and all analogy would lead us to believe that some at least of the squirrels would decrease in numbers or become exterminated, unless they also became modified and improved in structure in a corresponding manner.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The procession passed round the village and to the farm-houses near by, collecting largess of coin or beer, winding up the perambulation at the churchyard.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

There were two or three pretty faces among the female singers, to which the keen air of a frosty morning had given a bright rosy tint; but the gentlemen choristers had evidently been chosen, like old Cremona fiddles, more for tone than looks; and as several had to sing from the same book, there were clusterings of odd physiognomies not unlike those groups of cherubs we sometimes see on country tombstones.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

[ The curious reader may compare the classic learning of Cellarius and the geographical science of D'Anville.
— 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

Fruit thin-skinned, globular, about 1′ in diameter; the rind adheres closely to the pulp. (This fruit closely resembles, if it is not identical with the lime fruit, C. Limetta , or C. Bergamia , Risso, though Gray states that the leaf of the latter has a wingless petiole.—J. B. T.) Habitat.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Certain LADIES or COUNTESSES, with plain circlets of gold without flowers. Exeunt, first passing over the stage in order and state, and then a great flourish of trumpets SECOND GENTLEMAN.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Vulg. (of both).— Kalig̃ag , Makalig̃ag , Tag., Vis.; Kandaroma , Iloc; Cassia Lignea or Cassia , Eng. Uses.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

I chucked lumps of coral at him from a safe distance, but he only swallowed them.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In a state of terrible excitement she threw back her head, with flaming eyes, casting looks of contempt and defiance upon the whole company, in which she could no longer distinguish friend from foe.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In sustaining the provision's constitutionality, Dole articulated four general constitutional limitations on Congress's exercise of the spending power.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Certain lines of Coleridge's did, no doubt, "find themselves" in the Siege of Corinth , having found their way to the younger poet's ear and fancy before the Lady of the vision was directly and formally introduced to his notice.]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Large-brained, clear-eyed, of such as he Shall Freedom's young apostles be, Who, following in War's bloody trail, Shall every lingering wrong assail; All chains from limb and spirit strike, Uplift the black and white alike; Scatter before their swift advance The darkness and the ignorance, The pride, the lust, the squalid sloth, Which nurtured Treason's monstrous growth, Made murder pastime, and the hell Of prison-torture possible; The cruel lie of caste refute, Old forms remould, and substitute For Slavery's lash the freeman's will, For blind routine, wise-handed skill; A school-house plant on every hill, Stretching in radiate nerve-lines thence
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

I have the testimony of a gentleman well-known in [Pg 26] Suffolk, now living, who stated that he saw a cymling vine at jack's Camp which was of spontaneous growth, and which covered more juniper trees than he could count, and from that vine there was gathered two hundred and fifty cart loads of cymlings.
— from The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes by Robert Arnold

The North is strong in its natural resources, strong in the justice of its cause: it has risen to vindicate the cardinal law of civilization, and by this shall it conquer.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The feeble, but sweet, song of the crested lark or Chandul is one of the features of February.
— from A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar

There followed a long scrambling campaign, carried on for many years between the Arab slavers on the one side and the Congo forces upon the other—the latter consisting largely of cannibal tribes—men of the Stone Age, armed with the weapons of the nineteenth century.
— from The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle

On June 9, 1899, he consented to visit the Savage Club, London, on condition that there was to be no publicity and no speech was to be expected from him.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain