I have now got used to it, but you know you hurt me, and made me so sore the first time you did it.’
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

And becuase it is a plentiful Region and Opulent withal; it was subjected to several Rulers, who like Infernal Fiends contended who should obtain the Palm, by out-staining the Sword of his Predecessor in Innocent Blood; insomuch, that from the Year 1529 to this very day, they have wasted and spoiled as much good ground as extended Five Hundred Miles, and unpeopled the Countrey.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Accordingly, giving the appointed signal, he went to open the door, whereupon Giannole, coming up in haste with two companions, entered and finding the young lady in the saloon, laid hands on her to carry her off.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Getting programs by email is a three-step process: | | (1) Use Archie to find file names and where they are stored, | | (2) Send a message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to have them | | retrieved and forwarded to you by email, and | | (3) Use a utility program to convert the file to a useful | | format.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

You Karamazovs brag of being an ancient, noble family, though your father used to run about playing the buffoon at other men's tables, and was only admitted to the kitchen as a favor.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By and bye he should place her in his lap, and try more and more to gain her consent, and if she will not yield to him he should frighten her by saying, "I shall impress marks of my teeth and nails on your lips and breasts, and then make similar marks on my own body, and shall tell my friends that you did them.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Some of those flowers were actually set out by the schoolmaster's bride, and she has been dead for thirty years.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

For two years she had not seen the Court.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Asaad's brother Galed came again to-day, and discovered more feeling than yesterday on the subject of his brother's leaving the English.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Dick Moore died of yellow fever thirteen years ago in Cuba.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The fact that you took a steward's job on the Sirdar shows your disinclination to appeal to your own people for funds.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

You will find that you have looked at the view from your window with the same careless, vacant, absent gaze, lacking real attention, and that you need to fix your mind on observing a landscape or a scene, before you take in a great many details that are essential.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

Augeas, king of Elis, had a herd of three thousand oxen, whose stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Lawyer Brown believed the boy to be a restless and dangerous spirit, but he said to Bradley: "I've no doubt the boy was provoked by Clint, who is a worthless bully, but we must face the fact that young Excell bears a bad name.
— from The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

Whether such matter was created a few thousand years ago, or whether it has existed through an eternal series of metamorphoses of which our present universe is only the last stage, are alternatives, neither of which is scientifically untenable, and neither scientifically demonstrable.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abandonment for two years.
— from Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

She devoted what money she had to the education of her children, wishing to make men of them, and giving them straight-forward reasons, without, however, taking the bloom from their young imaginations.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"Go on ahead, Lieutenant." Bewildered by her sudden change of front, the young officer led the way to the door, followed by both women, Goddard, and the sergeant.
— from The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Your commission has come out by the packet which arrived yesterday, and the admiral will hand it you the first time you call upon him.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood