I began a slow movement, she made no resistance, except crying out, “Oh! dear, oh! dear,” as if in spite of regrets, she could not help enjoying it; indeed, at last she said— “Oh!
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The chickens, he found, had had the sense to go to roost before time; both Brownie and the cat were safe indoor; they could look out for themselves, but the gentle, fawn-like Jersey (quite a different animal from the wild-eyed beast of three years agone) had expectations, and she must needs receive especial care.
— from The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

“A source of lawsuits among my near relations, endless conversations with lawyers, and packets of letters to read every day and answer—all this weight of new business is too much for the rag of life that yet hangs about me.”
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

Be this as it may, no reinforcements ever came: and this little handful of Americans soon found themselves hemmed in at the little town of Caborca without hope or succor.
— from Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston

"Mercy no!" replied E——, contentedly.
— from Peking Dust by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte