But occasionally to suck up his young sperm after the excitement of their love combat produces a stiffness for my beautiful wife to mount upon me and then have our charming son to put his prick into her bottom for this, too, is necessary to my failing vigour, and the contact of his vigorous young prick against the thin filmy substance separating us feels as nothing.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

You may know the Kleine Bühne and the Max und Moritz and the Hölle, but there are fifty others, and every night finds them crowded.
— from Europe After 8:15 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

'You don't think it a bullet wound, Sir?' said my uncle, mildly, and touching his hat—for coming of a military stock himself, he always treated an old soldier with uncommon respect.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

At a certain period of my Lord Twemlow's first story, the night he told it, both his Lordship of Dunstanwolde and the then Marquess of Roxholm had made unconscious movements as they heard—this had happened when had been described the falling of the mantle of black hair and the little oaths with which Mistress Clorinda had sat on her hunter binding it up—and at this point—at this other picture of the audacious beauty and her broken glass each man almost started again—my Lord Dunstanwolde indeed suddenly rising and taking a step across the hearth.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

There are a small number of observations made upon man and the higher animals which seem to prove that injuries or mutilations of the body can, under certain circumstances, be transmitted to the offspring.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

"He is—and of late he is more unreserved, more affectionate than he used to be; his sympathy is very sweet.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

Never did any previous work of mine upset me as this has done.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

She flapped the reins in the most unprofessional manner, and the horse turned to The Appointed Way with briskness that bespoke his impatience and a desire for more familiar scenes.
— from A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

At Long Meadow the lads remained for several years, and are represented as having made "remarkably good proficiency in school learning," as exhibiting strong proofs of virtuous and pious dispositions, and as "likely to make useful missionaries among the heathen."
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

Our tempers had long differed, nor did my unhappy mother always think him sufficiently observant to her.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

“As I was this day traversing the air in the form of a wild swan, I saw the Borderers coming down in full array; with a Chieftain of most undaunted might at their head.
— from The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 2 of 2) by James Hogg