It was at this moment that the greater excitement awoke mamma, who finding to her surprise what Ellen was doing, seized her hand, and pressing and rubbing it with more art against her clitoris, continued its action with exclamations of delight, declaring that Ellen was her dear precious loved girl, and then with a positive cry of delight, spent profusely over Ellen’s hand.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

There was an abundance of laughing and blessing Mas’r, as St. Clare distributed small pieces of change among them.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Her own little room too, where she had so often knelt down and prayed at night—prayed for the time which she hoped was dawning now—the little room where she had slept so peacefully, and dreamed such pleasant dreams!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Le CEVEIL a cessé la production de ses clips d'information hebdomadaires et de son périodique mensuel.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Nora shuddered two or three times and drew several painful breaths; but she did not cry, and Janetta had expected an agony of tears.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I also dug shallow pans in the rock, close to the water's edge, that I might gain as much salt as possible by means of evaporation.
— from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

Their transport was provided by the allotment of two limbered wagons per Company, which carried, in addition to the guns, their ammunition "drums," spare parts, some boxed (p. 244) ammunition, and other paraphernalia.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman

"Et vous, prêtres aveugles et impolitiques, laissez le peuple se livrer à ses plaisirs innocens; faites en sorte qu'il se contente de sa position; qu'il ne compare pas cette position pénible, douloureuse, avec l'oisiveté dans laquelle vous vivez vous-mêmes, et que vous ne devez qu'à la nouvelle dîme qui s'exprime de son front."
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

This has been a real day, something popping every minute since I got here this morning."
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay

" Madame St. Leger entered the room, talking, smiling, while Rentoul Haig, short, but valiantly making the most of his inches, his chest well forward, neat as a new pin, his countenance rosy, furiously pleased and furiously busy, with something between a marching and a dancing step, paraded proudly beside her.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

In what wise did she praise her?
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

He afterwards characterized Parsons’ effort as “a good political speech,” and, being apparently satisfied that there would be no trouble, left for the Desplaines Street Police Station, giving his impressions of the gathering to the Captain in charge and telling Bonfield that there seemed to be no further use for holding the force in reserve.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

According to what a man can Soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity Solon said that eating was physic against the malady hunger Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead some people rude, by being overcivil in their courtesy Some wives covetous indeed, but very few that are good managers
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne