To prevent my own prick from spending too quickly, I held somewhat back; then again we went at it fast and furious, and the dear lustful creature, with cries of joy, spent again with me, and fainted from excess of pleasure; but her glorious cunt continued to throb on my delighted prick, as if it would nip it off by the roots.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

"The fact is, life isn't much a fit for either of us," Winsett had once said.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

A British oath from the deck of the ship went out to meet a fine French explosion of profanity from the boat, both forestalling the splash of the tangled rope into the water under the bows of the ship, and a full ten yards out of the reach of the man who stood, boathook in hand, ready to catch it.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

You and mamma are fit for each other.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the Austrian Ambassador let it [168] be known at the same time that he would be prepared to make a further friendly examination of the Italian demands with reference to the other islands.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

He further stated, that it was Napoleon's policy to make a moyen , a fund for execution of his plans, by placing sums of money at his, General Gourgaud's command, and that he had sustained ill-treatment on the part of Napoleon, and much importunity on that of Bertrand, because he declined lending himself to facilitate secret correspondence.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

It was a generous deed, and it has made a friend for ever of Michel de la Foret."
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

Must his scruples of conscience prevent myself and family from entertaining our friends on Sunday?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

By no means always, far from even often, a hardened or an evil man, to-day the stream of thought was stirred and sullied from every black pool and weedy depth, and there came floating up folly, waste, and sin.
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

It was a generous deed, and it has made a friend for ever of Michel de la Foret.”
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Complete by Gilbert Parker

There is, however, this difference between the attraction of particles and that of masses, that the former takes place only when the particles are contiguous, whilst the latter is exerted when the masses are far from each other.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet