You shall see that, if Hymen likes to die in order to get rid of life, Love on the contrary expires only to spring up again into existence, and hastens to revive, so as to savour new enjoyment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He turned upon her a stare of displeasure; but in that second they heard a shouting down the village, ran to the front, and saw heaven all like cancer and cracked window-panes, for from a central plash of passion the shattered asteroid had shot long-lingering ribbons of lilac light over the bowl of the sky.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Farmer Derriman is not at home,’ said Anne, and went on to the window whence the rays of light leaked out, the trumpet-major standing where he was.
— from The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy

Singleton rolled one long leg over the other, luxuriating in Grindley's immensity.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Kenelm hesitated still; and while hesitating his eye rested on Lily, leaning on the arm of a middle-aged lady, and approaching the hostess,— evidently to take leave.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In the lunette, R., Raising of Lazarus; lunette over the outer portal, Crucifixion; lunette L., Burial of the Virgin.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

He, I had long been convinced, ought to be the Welsh reflex of Labhraidh Lorc, or the Irish king with
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

The law of civil rights provided that all negroes are to have the same rights with whites as to personal property, as to suing and being sued, but they must not rent or lease lands or tenements except in incorporated towns and cities, and under the control of the corporate authorities.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam