She was the depository of all my erotic extravagancies, and never showed any jealousy, but really enjoyed the recital of my wildest love combats with others.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

To defend these vigourous proceedings, the unhappy insurgents placed themselves under the interim government of a council, who, still desirous to temporize and maintain the revolutionary character, termed themselves "the popular and republican commission of public safety of the department of the Rhine and Loire;" a title which, while it excited no popular enthusiasm, and attracted no foreign aid, no ways soothed, but rather exasperated, the resentment of the convention, now under the absolute domination of the Jacobins, by whom every thing short of complete fraternization was accounted presumptuous defiance.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

21 Under these circumstances, Genseric, a Christian, but an enemy of the orthodox communion, showed himself to the Donatists as a powerful deliverer, from whom they might reasonably expect the repeal of the odious and oppressive edicts of the Roman emperors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

XXXII Already crisp hoar frosts impose O'er all a sheet of silvery dust (Readers expect the rhyme of rose , There!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

These were the Reverend Edward Thesiger, Rector of St. Peter's, Mr. Bulstrode, and our friend Mr. Brooke of Tipton, who had lately allowed himself to be put on the board of directors in his turn, but had never before attended, his attendance now being due to Mr. Bulstrode's exertions.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

A mind is a private view; it is gathered together in proportion as physical sensibility extends its range and makes one stretch of being after another tributary to the animal's life, and in proportion also as this sensibility is integrated, so that every organ in its reaction enlists the resources of every other organ as well.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When he was born or rather evolved, the rest of mankind was already in the field, struggling for existence.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The boy’s wrath against the unconscious cause of his troubles is the rage often observed in children who retaliate upon the table or chair on which they have been bruised, and it repeats embryologically the rage of the world’s boyhood inspired by ascription of personal motives to inanimate obstructions.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When this course is adopted, various articles must be kept ready ere the return of the party.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Too glad, as it seemed, to recognize even the remnants of discipline, he came back from his inspection apparently well satisfied and content.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Mrs. Smith's shawl was undeniably better than Judy's by many degrees but she had not the magnanimity to consider this, even so far as to propose that Judy should at any rate enjoy the reversion of her own.
— from Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

There is danger of the latter, because European society is not based on the Christian principle of the independence and inviolability of the rights of man, that is, the rights of God, but on the pagan principle of the state, that all rights, even the rights of the church, and society emanate from the state, and are revocable at its will.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

These reports really embody the results of three years’ labors.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

Her lovers succeeded one another with quite bewildering rapidity, and with little regard either to rank or good-looks.
— from Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

315 Her fits no longer recurred naturally, but she was able to reproduce either the reality or the appearance of them; and she continued to improvise her oracles with such ability as she could command, and with tolerable success.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

And instead of setting up a 'righteousness' which is peculiar to itself, and has nothing to do with the world's morality, Christianity says, as Christ has taught us, 'Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of God.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

And it has been kindly ordained that when we are not rich enough to realize our ideas for ourselves, we take nearly as much interest in seeing them realized by somebody else; so that critics who could not afford to build a laborer's cottage, get impassioned about Prince Albert's monument or the future Palace of Justice.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

And the little window will glow like a red star to the people of the village; and then within, there will be the immense antlers over the door, belonging to a moose Jake shot the first year he came into the country, all tremulous with the light, and the long rifle thrust through it will glitter quick and keen; and the scraped powder-horn hung by it will be transparent in redness; even the row of bullets on the rude shelf near the window will give a dull gleam, whilst our old acquaintance, the axe, will wink as if a dozen eyes were strewn along its sharp, bright edge.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various