However, this was no time for me to decline the defiance, because the success of my addresses in a great measure depended upon my behaviour in that affair.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Tears of vexation dropped upon my breast and the groan I smothered in a sigh nearly wracked my soul.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

VI When I rose the next morning and drew up my blind, the sea opened before me joyously under the broad August sunlight, and the distant coast of Scotland fringed the horizon with its lines of melting blue.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

As Mary had not yet had my prick in her cunt, Miss F. proposed that I should fuck her, that Lizzie should kneel close behind us, she could fuck Lizzie’s bottom-hole with her clitoris, and work one dildo up my bottom, while she worked a second in her own.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Taking the whole kingdom at an average, therefore, the whole amount of the duties upon malt, beer, and ale, cannot be estimated at less than twenty-four or twenty-five shillings upon the produce of a quarter of malt.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced upon my breast, repeating, several times, as they did at first, Hekinah degul .
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

He was always down upon me, but I had powerful friends, and, moreover, all the town was on my side, so he couldn't do me much harm.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And what name lost thou bear in heaven?" Dublin University Magazine . BALLADES.—1823-28.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

It is perhaps significant that most of his best work was done under Mrs. Browning's influence.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

So evident, indeed, was the disparity, that the prevalent feeling was not one of reasonable self-reliance, but of vainglorious self-confidence; of dependence upon mere bulk and weight to crush an opponent, quite irrespective of preparation or skill, and disregardful of the factor of military efficiency.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

That the Legislators may be, and generally are, the greatest men of their age, yet their notions and ideas must flow, and are taken up from the views of their own age; and though they build for posterity, yet they build with materials of [164] their own time: that they attempt to prevent as far as they foresee: that any constitution, however wisely framed, if once declared unalterable, must become a grievance: wise and happy as our own is, did it not grow so by degrees?
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

“What are you doing under my bed?”
— from The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

For the greater number of the articles required for daily use, men begin to find that a simple co-operative arrangement is sufficient.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by Various

Neil remembered afterward that just as he closed the door upon Mr. Burr and his vagaries, shutting them at the same time out of his mind, Mr. Burr, sitting rather heavily down in the broken-springed desk chair, was bending and stretching out a faultlessly manicured, slightly unsteady hand toward the locked drawer of the desk.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton