He also established the independence of psychology from physiology, and by his encyclopedic and always thronged lectures, to say nothing of his more or less esoteric seminary, he materially advanced every branch of mental science and extended its influence over the whole wide domain of folklore, mores, language, and primitive religion.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

wherefore, passing over to Naples, I shall tell how one of those she-saints, who feign themselves so shy of love, was by the ingenuity of a lover of hers brought to taste the fruits of love, ere she had known its flowers; the which will at once teach you circumspection in the things that may hap and afford you diversion of those already befallen.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But it could hardly be reckoned as a crime for this nobleman, a bachelor, with plenty of leisure, especially since his sisters were settled, to come and spend an hour or two after dinner in the company of a dancer, who, though not so very, very witty, had the finest eyes that ever were seen!
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Then take a “closed fistful” ( sa-gĕnggam ) of parched rice, and holding it over the smoke of the censer ( ganggang di asap kĕm’nyan ), repeat this charm:— “Peace be with you, Mustia Kĕmbang, I adopt you as a guardian for my brother, If in truth you are sprung from the primordial elements, From the former time unto the present, I know the origin from which you sprang, For you sprang from our Lady Eve (Siti Hawa), You I order, your co-operation I invoke, That whatsoever shape you assume
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"Would you cling to a barren point of honor in despite of love?" "Even so," he said, and sighed.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

One last example: syphilis has been plausibly credited with much of the sterility.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

she did not reflect, that to the searching eye of Lord Elmwood, she had faults, with her utmost care to conceal or overcome them, sufficient to try all his love, and all his patience.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

But of late El Sarria had learned some of the wisdom of caution.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"As the devil, Christ's antient adversary, is a liar and the father of lying, even so hath he stirred his servants and members to persecute Christ and his true word and religion, which he ceaseth not to do most earnestly at this present.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

Our largest English snake has no poison to ‘eject, as it was conceived.’
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

Síðan gekk Bǫðvarr til þess rúms, sem hann hafði áðr tekit, ok leiddi eptir sér Hǫtt ok þar setr hann Hǫtt hjá sér, en hann er svá hræddr, at skelfr á honum leggr ok liðr, en þó þykkiz hann skilja, at þessi maðr vill hjálpa sér.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers