The towel was a fortunate thought on your part, but, in fact, I had followed in all my movements the sage counsels you had given me from the experience you had had in taking the virginities of Mrs. Vincent and your two sisters, or I should otherwise probably have bungled the matter, although my experience with your magnificent aunt had naturally put me up to all the art of fucking.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Was there to be no compensation for the garage and other improvements that they had made under the assumption that all would be theirs some day?
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

But for A UXERRE —I could go on for ever: for in my grand tour through Europe, in which, after all, my father (not caring to trust me with any one) attended me himself, with my uncle Toby, and Trim, and Obadiah, and indeed most of the family, except my mother, who being taken up with a project of knitting my father a pair of large worsted breeches—(the thing is common sense)—and she not caring to be put out of her way, she staid at home, at S HANDY H
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

C H A P. XLIV T HE anguish of my knee, continued the corporal, was excessive in itself; and the uneasiness of the cart, with the roughness of the roads, which were terribly cut up—making bad still 130 worse—every step was death to me: so that with the loss of blood, and the want of care-taking of me, and a fever I felt coming on besides——(Poor soul! said my uncle Toby )——all together, an’ please your honour, was more than I could sustain.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It is to comprehend "all cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands and grants of different States; and between a State or the citizens thereof and foreign states, citizens, and subjects."
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But for Auxerre—I could go on for ever: for in my grand tour through Europe, in which, after all, my father (not caring to trust me with any one) attended me himself, with my uncle Toby, and Trim, and Obadiah, and indeed most of the family, except my mother, who being taken up with a project of knitting my father a pair of large worsted breeches—(the thing is common sense)—and she not caring to be put out of her way, she staid at home, at Shandy Hall, to keep things right during the expedition; in which, I say, my father stopping us two days at Auxerre, and his researches being ever of such a nature, that they would have found fruit even in a desert—he has left me enough to say upon Auxerre: in short, wherever my father went—but 'twas more remarkably so, in this journey through France and Italy, than in any other stages of his life—his road seemed to lie so much on one side of that, wherein all other travellers have gone before him—he saw kings and courts and silks of all colours, in such strange lights—and his remarks and reasonings upon the characters, the manners, and customs of the countries we pass'd over, were so opposite to those of all other mortal men, particularly those of my uncle Toby and Trim—(to say nothing of myself)—and to crown all—the occurrences and scrapes which we were perpetually meeting and getting into, in consequence of his systems and opiniotry—they were of so odd, so mix'd and tragi-comical a contexture—That the whole put together, it appears of so different a shade and tint from any tour of Europe, which was ever executed—that I will venture to pronounce—the fault must be mine and mine only—if it be not read by all travellers and travel-readers, till travelling is no more,—or which comes to the same point—till the world, finally, takes it into its head to stand still.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Opponents were overawed and silenced when they found that the supporters of the King had as it were stolen a march upon them, and that, although he himself was absent, his friends were in possession of all the powers of government on his behalf.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

Beds ain't made up till after tattoo, and he wouldn't have time to——" "Tattoo sounded fifteen minutes ago.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

Coupeau would never venture to marry unless they agreed to accept his wife.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

These children have parents or relatives engaged in the same business, who require them to bring in a certain sum of money at the end of the day, and if they do not make up the amount they are received with blows and curses, and are refused the meagre suppers of which they are so much in need, or are turned into the streets to pass the night.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

The student must understand that a term and its contradictory destroy each other.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

I persuaded mother a little time back to wheel me under the apple tree and sit with me.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

The Rev. Mr. Kingsley , author of Alton Locke , has collected into a book the series of vehement and yeasty papers which have appeared from his pen in Fraser's Magazine under the above title, and a new impulse is thus given in England to the discussion of the Problem of Society.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

And so the Indians grew to love the French, who were always kind to them in health, and whose gentle priests nursed them carefully in sickness; and by and by they came to learn many useful things, and to adopt many French customs, which linger among their descendants to this day.
— from Children's Stories in American History by Henrietta Christian Wright

The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederate States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Confederate States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, where the State is plaintiff ; between citizens claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, [pg 668] or subjects.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis