I seized her in my arms, and gently laid her on the couch—her petticoats were freely canted up, showing her beautiful belly and now more fully fledged cunt.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Yet there was a something in his look which, the moment that I saw him, inspired me with a secret awe, not to say horror.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure: When out of hope, behold her, not far off, Such as I saw her in my
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day....
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

“To invoke your pity,” said the lovely Jewess, with a voice somewhat tremulous with emotion, “would, I am aware, be as useless as I should hold it mean.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“Oh, it is impossible,” said he, “I must be dreaming!
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I steered him into my bedroom, and sat down at once to write letters.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Cheare up your spirits (my hearts) quoth Maso , and if your longing be like to mine; we will have yonder Breeches a good deale lower, for I see how it may be easily done.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

If she has, I must bring her back and tell her that I know her whole sad story, and I must make the best I can of her poor, blighted life."
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Amongst all the noble schemes that I saw here, I most admired those which were not content with the improvement of England, but designed the good of the whole world, such as the plan last mentioned, for including all the inhabitants of the globe in one religion.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

I am afraid, after all, I should have treated the Count as a visionary, and not have yielded to his statements the credence they deserve, but for the good British evidence I had already heard in favour of their trustworthiness; and still I suspect that I should have imagined many of the details fanciful had I perused them at an earlier period than the present; for, it is but lately that I have read Von Reichenbach’s experiments on the action of crystals, and of what not, upon sensitive human bodies; a series of phenomena utterly unlike those explored by the Count de Tristan, but
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

But even if you do lose temper in seeing him, it might rather do good than not.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

If Scattergood could have seen himself, as I see him in memory, seated in his quiet study, with the household skeleton, the philosophical thesis, and the gold-rimmed miniature of Ethelberta, in their respective positions, forming as it were the three points of a mystic triangle, I think he might have discerned in the Universe something of deeper import than ever appeared within the four corners of his philosophy.
— from All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

Its most impressive sight, however, is much nearer, the narrow dreary chasm immediately below, with its broken palisades that seem almost ready to fall.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook