The transported youth devoured every thing with his eyes, and tried, with his fingers, to lay more open to his sight the secrets of that dark and delicious deep: he opens the folding lips, the softness of which, yielding entry to any thing of a hard body, close round it, and oppose the sight; and feeling further, meets with, and wonder at, a soft fleshy excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now grew, under the touch and examination of his fiery fingers, more and more stiff and considerable, till the titillating ardours of that so sensible part made me sigh, as if he had hurt me; on which he withdrew his curious probing fingers, asking me pardon, as it were, in a kiss that rather increased the flame there.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

“Let them be what they will,” cries Jones, “I am resolved to go up to them, and enquire the way to Coventry.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"The circus man had made friends with the sailor who gave Uncle Toby the alligator," explained the housekeeper, "and the circus man decided to become a sailor, too.
— from The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection by Howard Roger Garis

By an unwritten law the port side of the promenade deck was given up to them after eleven at night; but the women folk had the run of the starboard side at any hour when the crew were not washing down decks.
— from Found in the Philippines: The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

“If I lived in America for a hundred years I couldn’t get used to the American eating.
— from Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska

He rather repented of this when they got into the deep gloom under the trees, and Elinor began to tell stories about adders, wild cats, poachers, and anything else that could possibly make a nervous man uncomfortable under such circumstances.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

For the few months of his nominal reign he was entirely in the hands of the soldiery; minister after minister was given up to them, and ended his life by the bowstring or on the fatal tree.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

It is also by means of these [Pg 84] electro-magnets that man can get us to turn an electric motor, and so on.
— from The Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson