Thus, however, I lost him; and as no condition of life is more subject to revolutions than that of a woman of pleasure, I soon recovered my cheerfulness, and now beheld myself once more struck off the list of kept mistresses, and returned into the bosom of the community, from which I had been in some manner taken.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Am I not right? D Under knowledge, however, are not to be included sights and sounds, or under the lovers of knowledge, musical amateurs and the like.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When our affections had their liberty, Our kisses met as temperatelie as The hands of sisters, or of brothers, that Our bloods were then as moving; then you were So noble, that I durst have trusted your Embraces in an opportunity Silent enough to serve a ravisher, And yet come from you—undishonor'd—how You think me altered, that you promise your [Pg 220]
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

From the point of view of this interval it may not be unreasonable to revert to the clauses of King Alfred’s laws on ‘kinless men’ and the Norman precedent, that the king was to take the place of the missing maternal kindred and of advocate for a Norman if he had no other.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

who long had felt heart, soul spread wide Her life out, knowing much and loving well, On either side
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

"You will let him go in the end, Woodhall, whatever you determine now," replied the clergyman, with a look of kindly meaning, "and it is better to do that graciously which you will do eventually.
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

(The soul is the sun, whose light of knowledge manifests all things unto us).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki