Miss Evelyn being greatly excited by the unsatisfying nature of my first bout, was extremely warm, and throwing her arms and legs around my body, we again rushed headlong into all the fury of fucking, and as my previous spendings had somewhat reduced the power of immediate discharge, I was able to suit my movements exactly to those of my most active companion, and we sank together in all the voluptuousness of satisfied desires, lying long locked in each other’s arms, before we were again in a state to renew our combats in love’s delicious domain.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

" Dorothy nodded gravely and the Queen made a curtsy, after which she became quite friendly with the little girl.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Dorothy nodded gravely and the Queen made a courtesy, after which she became quite friendly with the little girl.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Many a young gentleman exclaims that he cannot stand the expense; he eats like a Jew, grudging his guests food and drink; he is stingy with the Hungarian wine, and drinks that devilish, adulterated, fashionable Muscovite champagne; then in the evening he loses as much money at cards as would suffice for a banquet for a hundred gentlemen and brothers.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

If you can get the true Iron Fan through his help you will be able to extinguish the flames, take your Master to the West, save the lives of many people round here, and enable us to return to Heaven once more.” Sun at once mounted a cloud and was soon at Chi-lei Shan.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

She was then proceeding to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric, and would shortly have dictated some very plentiful orders, had not Jane, though with some difficulty, persuaded her to wait till her father was at leisure to be consulted.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

She was then proceeding to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric, and would shortly have dictated some very plentiful orders, had not Jane, though with some difficulty, persuaded her to wait, till her father was at leisure to be consulted.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Near the fireplace was a large and very beautiful cabinet of ebony, inlaid with ivory; a piece of antique furniture, which Mr. Pyncheon had bought in Venice, and which he used as the treasure-place for medals, ancient coins, and whatever small and valuable curiosities he had picked up on his travels.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A bristly mustache as coarse as wire sprouted from his upper lip.
— from The Bungalow Boys in the Great Northwest by John Henry Goldfrap

As for the intelligent and wise, if they go to a church on purpose to see a miracle, and come away without seeing it, they are told by the priest that it is because they lack faith, that they do not go in the proper spirit, that their natures are too material, that such sights are reserved only for the faithful, and that few are sufficiently spiritualised to behold them.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by M. Y. Halidom

Men are constantly attempting, without special aptitude, work for which special aptitude is indispensable.
— from The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes

But afterward all animals belonging to the Argyllæans that passed by the spot where the Phocæans who had been stoned lay, became distorted, maimed, and crippled, as well sheep, as beasts of burden and men.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

They had made a castle, and were standing on the top of it, all crowded together, waiting for a big wave to come and surround them; and when at last it came, it carried half their fortress away with it, and they all hopped off into the water, and splashed up through it helter-skelter, with shouts of laughter, to the dry land.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

She had her weaknesses, moments of abandonment to the caprice of the minute, a coquetry at which she herself mocked but never fought against.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

To the right they saw an elephant, manifestly a cow and wounded, shambling towards them.
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden