It is the likeness of a pope, answered Pantagruel; I know it by the triple crown, his furred amice, his rochet, and his slipper.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

She seized my standing prick, and placing its knob between the already very moist lips, told me to push it in as far as it would go.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I imagined this to myself, and at once there came into my mind people, all people I knew, who had been slowly done to death by their nearest relations.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

After observing that of the two sexes amongst animals, the most vigorous and hottest constitution always prevails, and produces its kind; he adds,—"If this be applied to the inhabitants of Africa, it is evident that the men there, accustomed to polygamy, are enervated by the use of so many women, and therefore less vigorous; the women on the contrary, are of a hotter constitution, not only on account of their more irritable nerves, more sensitive organization, and more lively fancy; but likewise because they are deprived in their matrimony of that share of physical love which in a monogamous condition, would all be theirs; and thus for the above reasons, the generality of children are born females."
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

It is easy to describe it: large grassy yard, with paling fence painted white—in fair repair; brick walk from gate to door; big, square, two-story 'frame' house, painted white and porticoed like a Grecian temple—with this difference, that the imposing fluted columns and Corinthian capitals were a pathetic sham, being made of white pine, and painted; iron knocker; brass door knob—discolored, for lack of polishing.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In December, 1867, the older native statesmen, with long preparation, and the younger ones, with the new mind “brought from over the sea,” got possession of the imperial palace and person in Kioto, and began, in the boy mikado’s name, that series of far-reaching reforms that have made a new nation.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

46 Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of some people who got money by it, that is to say, by printing predictions and prognostications, I know not.
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

exclaimed his lordship, pressing a purse into Katerfelto's hand.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Go, captain, and deliver to the army This news of peace: let them have pay, and part: I know it will please them.
— from King Henry IV, Second Part by William Shakespeare

There were medley-pictures contrived of photographs cut out and grouped together in novel and unexpected relations; and there were set about divers patterns and pretences in keramics, as the decoration of earthen pots and jars was called.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

I thought when you told me that he was so bad, that you were believing false people; and, Papa, I know now that I should not have loved him as I did;—so quickly, like that."
— from Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope