He received no salary as private secretary, but these two clerkships, procured by his benefactor, paid him an aggregate of twelve dollars a day, without counting the twenty percent extra compensation which would of course be voted to him on the last night of the session.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Up the hill stretched a road nearly straight and perfectly white, the two sides approaching each other in a gradual taper till they met the sky at the top about two miles off.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

She had really never seen a prick, although it was evidently a prick that had deflowered her, for with my fingers I had explored her cunt, and found no hymen there.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Immediately the Mountains huge appeer Emergent, and thir broad bare backs upheave Into the Clouds, thir tops ascend the Skie: So high as heav'd the tumid Hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of Waters: thither they 290 Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowld As drops on dust conglobing from the drie; Part rise in crystal Wall, or ridge direct, For haste; such flight the great command impress'd On the swift flouds: as Armies at the call Of Trumpet (for of Armies thou hast heard) Troop to thir Standard, so the watrie throng, Wave rowling after Wave, where way they found, FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size If steep, with torrent rapture, if through Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them Rock or Hill, 300 But they, or under ground, or circuit wide With Serpent errour wandring, found thir way, And on the washie Oose deep Channels wore; Easie, e're God had bid the ground be drie, All but within those banks, where Rivers now Stream, and perpetual draw thir humid traine.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Troop to thir Standard, so the watrie throng, Wave rowling after Wave, where way they found, If steep, with torrent rapture, if through Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them Rock or Hill, But they, or under ground, or circuit wide With Serpent errour wandring, found thir way, And on the washie Oose deep Channels wore; Easie, e’re God had bid the ground be drie, All but within those banks, where Rivers now Stream, and perpetual draw thir humid traine.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Troop to their standard; so the watery throng, Wave rolling after wave, where way they found, If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain, Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill; But they, or under ground, or circuit wide With serpent errour wandering, found their way, And on the washy oose deep channels wore; Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry, All but within those banks, where rivers now Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

And like a beggar for to whine at door, Contemn'd of all the world, an exile is, Hated, rejected, needy still and poor.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On that journey, he came to the river on which Rockhampton now stands, and, passing up the coast, went as far as Cleveland Bay, where Townsville was founded some years later.
— from Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

"Upon my word, James, she is an extremely fine woman, and I really never saw any person conduct herself better upon such an occasion.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

It restores nutrition, sensation, and power, and dispenses almost wholly with mechanical supports.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Others of the Roman nobility, sovereigns and princes, at the time in the city, were present.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

One of the first of these is the fact, generally lost sight of by those who censure the Anglo-Saxon novel for its prudishness, that it is really not such a prude after all; and that if it is sometimes apparently anxious to avoid those experiences of life not spoken of before young people, this may be an appearance only.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

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— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 by Various

According to his report I lost much by not hearing the two rival nightingales, Sontag and Pasta, last night, but I care not for it.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott