Then with a warm kiss we ceased our efforts and lay for a while locked in each other's arms, still joined together by the tender tie that bound us in a perfect heaven of luxurious delight.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Anyway, I have only lately determined to remember some of my early adventures.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Like his own Lorenzo de’ Medici, on whom he seems to have fixed his eye, as on a pure model of antiquity, he has interwoven the history of his life with the history of his native town, and has made the foundations of his fame the monuments of his virtues.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The fourteenth day arrived and everything was in order; but on this night, one and all whether high or low, did not get a wink of sleep; and when the fifteenth came, every one, at the fifth watch, beginning from dowager lady Chia and those who enjoyed any official status, appeared in full gala dress, according to their respective ranks.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

He had been a contributor to the Filipino paper published in Spain, “ La Solidaridad ,” and, to further bring the conditions and needs of his country to more public notice, he wrote this novel [ 282 ] dealing with Tagálog life as represented at his old home on Laguna de Bay and in the city of Manila.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

So high strung is the narrative, that did we come on any hint of loving dalliance it would jar with all the rest She is always at a distance from him, less a woman than an angel.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, Of refin'd manners, yet ceremoniall man, That when thou meet'st one, with enquiring eyes 30 Dost search, and like a needy broker prize The silke, and gold he weares, and to that rate So high or low, dost raise thy formall hat: That wilt consort none, untill thou have knowne What lands hee hath in hope, or of his owne, 35 As though all thy companions should make thee Jointures, and marry thy deare company.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

x. p. 79) the following account of his earliest view, in a passage which contains no hint of later dissent from it:—“By an early pamphlet of Priestley’s ...
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Citoyen Coitant will explain fully how our lean dinner, of herbs and carrion, was consumed not without politeness and place-aux-dames: how Seigneur and Shoeblack, Duchess and Doll-Tearsheet, flung pellmell into a heap, ranked themselves according to method: at what hour 'the Citoyennes took to their needlework;' and we, yielding the chairs to them, endeavoured to talk gallantly in a standing posture, or even to sing and harp more or less.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The late owner has only lately died, and left the estate so mortgaged that the heirs cannot afford to live there.
— from The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

She is reported, with more vehemence than delicacy, to have told her young kinsmen that the house of Lorenzo dei Medici was not a stable for mules.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

So they ran out their horses on Langholm Down, and broke their spears, and the ladies, looking from their high windows, cried "God send our men safe home again."
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt

The stream of courtesy is dried away, And happiness to her own land doth flee, Sweet gem of gems, that knew love's gentle play, Love's mart and beauty's!
— from The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Sudraka

‘Spy me the horizon, and apprise me if somewhere you distinguish a chariot,’ he said, as they drew up on the rise of a hill of long descent, where the dusty roadway sank between its brown hedges, and crawled mounting from dry rush-spotted hollows to corn fields on a companion height directly facing them, at a remove of about three-quarters of a mile.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

The natives were wont to indicate a particular branch as being the halting-place of the spirits; but a missionary having cut it off, the tree has of late diminished in sanctity.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Yet one thing Eaton forgot--forgot that those hours of long drawn-out horror to his victim were also hours in which succour might come.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

The dear Saviour lowly, For us sinners His own life did offer; So with hearts pure and free, Forever do we Our lives unto Him gladly proffer.
— from Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation by Richard Wagner

He became presently very drowsy, and Lavie, making a bed for him under a mimosa, covered him up with all the spare garments of the rest of the party, and some heaps of long dry grass.
— from Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams