He desired aunt to rise also, but I felt by her throbbing cunt, and the pressure she put on my prick, as she rose from it, so that it came out with a loud flop, that she would fain once more have done me the service of allaying any stiffness that might re-arise.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

To set them at their ease—for there was a momentary hesitation—I pulled out my prick at full stand, and said— “There’s a prick worthy of all your exquisite cunts, and one, too, that has enjoyed them all, and been enjoyed by everyone of you.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

This preoccupation with serious thoughts and sad images might easily have resulted, as it did, for instance, in the gloomy villages of the Rhine, or in the overcrowded parts of medieval Paris, as it still does in many a village of the Alps, in something merely morbid or grotesque, in the Danse Macabre of many French and German painters, or the grim inventions of Duerer.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

all the earlier partakers of my prick are now dead and gone.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

In a country where the ordinary profits of stock, in the greater part of mercantile projects, are supposed to run between six and ten per cent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

After which I caused a procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be the receiver of the annual profits of my plantation: and appointing my partner to account with him, and make the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name; and by a clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year to his son after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

But I was afterward given privately to understand, that his imperial majesty, never imagining I had the least notice of his designs, believed I was only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise, according to the license he had given me, which was well known at our court, and would return in a few days, when the ceremony was ended.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Such and so great is the love I bear you, that I have sold the most part of my possessions and have presently brought hither merchandise to the value of more than two thousand florins and expect from the westward as much more as will be worth over three thousand, with which I mean to stock me a warehouse in this city and take up my sojourn here, so I may still be near you, meseeming I fare better of your love than ever lover of his lady.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

There is interwoven with it a play of mild philosophy and of pointed wit."— Boston Globe.
— from The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

Again was I shocked and overwhelmed at the gross impudence with which you persist in the promulgation of my private affairs.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

On the accession of Charles II. , the company obtained a new charter, which not only confirmed the old privileges, but gave it the power of making peace and war with the native princes of India.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

He was made Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge in 1866, and died in 1872.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

If you did, you would understand the peril of my position and of the great danger now threatening me.”
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux

"It is as kind," Fenton said, "as his touching upon the plainness of my personal appearance."
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

Luckily, she was almost as eager as I was, and hardly was I seated in the trap when she announced,— "Mamma wanted to ask you when we were alone, and wouldn't hear at first of even Maizie being with us; but I told papa of my plan, and he insisted that Maizie should be invited.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

At these words Jones started from his chair, and, bidding the boy follow him immediately, departed from the kitchen into a private apartment; for, so delicate was he with regard to Sophia, that he never willingly mentioned her name in the presence of many people; and, though he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

[57] The General Assembly of the Province of Maryland passed an Act in 1649 containing the following provision: "No person whatsoever, in this province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be anywise troubled or molested for his or her religion, or in the free exercise thereof, or any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson