" "I should like you to stay very much," said Dorothea, at once, as simply and readily as she had spoken at Rome.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He fucked aunt twice, spending as rapidly as she herself, lecherous as she was at all times.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

" "Mr. Fogg," said Aouda, rising and seizing his hand, "do you wish at once a kinswoman and friend?
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

He captured various specimens and returned, and some had eyes and some hadn't.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She looked at him with a curious mixture of surprise and respect as she handed him the contents of the message tube.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Never with such a roar are stones hurled from some engine on ramparts, nor does the thunder burst in so loud a peal.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Then he gave a sigh of satisfaction, and rose and shook hands with them all, still as smooth and polite as at the beginning.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

If Sti Högh had tried to take her then or to receive her kiss as anything more than a royal gift, he would have lost her forever, but he knelt silently before her, pressed her hand gratefully - 157 - to his lips, then stepped aside reverently and saluted her deeply with head bared and neck bent.
— from Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

“Folly,” said Arsinoe reddening, and stretching herself with fatigue she threw herself back on a couch.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

At this the wizard smiled, and replied, "Alas, sir, had we hitherto acted by rules of generosity only, we had not brought so great advantages to our interest.
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

Tush, desire hath no respect of persons: Cupid is blind and shooteth at random, as soon hitting a rag as a robe, and piercing as soon the bosom of a captive as the breast of a libertine.
— from Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Thomas Lodge

In the mean time, the boat party under Capt. Clarke, struggling against rapids and shallows, had made their way to a point only four miles by land, though ten by water, from where Capt. Lewis and the Indians were.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

There were many men in the world who would have been happy to go at her call to Breton wilds, or any other solitude; and he refused her, bluntly, coldly, because away there in the heart of Austria a woman, who was the mother of his children, span, and read, and said her prayers, and led her stupid, blameless, stately life!
— from Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Ouida

Himself most successful in commercial life, in which he had attained distinction before coming to the Senate, and representing a State having a greater extent of coast and better facilities for commerce than any other inland community in the world, Senator Chandler was eminently suitable as head of the Committee on Commerce.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Then, perhaps, because I held myself silent and remote and she had no emotion of fear from me, she did not immediately go.
— from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan