He desired aunt to rise also, but I felt by her throbbing cunt, and the pressure she put on my prick, as she rose from it, so that it came out with a loud flop, that she would fain once more have done me the service of allaying any stiffness that might re-arise.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

To the Southern man who admires Mr. Lincoln as one of the great figures of all time, he seems like a great physician, who, with malice toward none and with charity for all, kept vigil for four years at the bedside of a sick nation through all the long agony of its efforts to throw off from its system the inherited curse of slavery.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I felt, I say, that I could not settle down in my hut again, and I was consumed with an intense longing to go away into the wilderness and there hide my grief.
— from The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont

The steam used in Trevithick's and Stephenson's engines was waste or exhaust steam, discharging itself through the [Pg 194] funnel indeed, but not filling it, so that it created no perceptible draught.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

They shored up the endangered comb by building a thick pillar of wax between it and a neighboring comb, thus effectually fixing it so that it could sag no further.
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

In a very few minutes Frank returned with a pair of strong horses and wagon more desirable for its strength than its comfort.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

He has, for instance, some things in common with the goat family.
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell

Ever since the first stamps of the Sublime Empire appeared in the reign of Abdul Aziz, on whom be Peace, we collectors of stamps (on whom there can be no Peace, for in stamps there is constancy but in change) have Page 83
— from The Postage Stamp in War by Frederick John Melville

Colonel John Trumbull, of Revolutionary and artistic fame, had suggested to General Gates the advisability of fortifying it, saying that it commanded both Ticonderoga and Mount Independence.
— from Vermont: A Study of Independence by Rowland Evans Robinson

These two arguments, as he who reflects can easily perceive, not only corroborate each other, but their respective proving force is such, that, if considered separately, each one is sufficient to peremptorily prove that the Partialist doctrines are not taught in the Scriptures.
— from Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat

Give it here; we'll fix it so that it can masticate the toughest corporation board.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood