I did as my lovely mistress desired, and soon found it stiffen and stand up nearly an inch into my mouth.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Eve wondring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain'd to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain'd both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both: Eve requires him to bring her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; she pleas'd with the taste deliberates awhile whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what persuaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amaz'd, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover thir nakedness; then fall to variance and accusation of one another.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Then the hide was stuffed with straw and sewed up; next the stuffed animal was set on its feet and yoked to a plough as if it were ploughing.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

No one else came down into the forecastle during the day, and at night, I got into Augustus’ berth, where I slept soundly and sweetly until nearly daybreak, when he awakened me upon hearing a stir upon deck, and I regained my hiding-place as quickly as possible.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

We should be equally concerned in saving and storing up natural forces we already have.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Jerry decided not to be present at her entrance so he betook himself again to the smoker and stayed until noon.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

to find his love a language Fit and fair and simple and sufficient— Using nature that's an art to others, Not, this one time, art that's turned his nature.
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

Skimmed off the surface, which was all they could see, and set up neatly in forcible quotable words.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

The hafting area is shallowly side notched near the base, with the shoulders and stem usually nearly the same width.
— from Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types by James W. Cambron

They all smile and salute us now, because we have been there so often.
— from Over Periscope Pond Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root

Yet they swam steadily with flanks shining, tails sometimes afloat, sometimes under, noses up, and riders holding weapons aloft.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey

Young, old, handsome, plain, smart and stupid, until now few of them had dared to hope for a change of name; for, while they possessed as many mental and personal charms as girls in general, all the enterprising boys of Hardhack had departed from their birthplace in search of the lucre which Hardback's barren hills and lean meadows failed to supply, and the cause of their going was equally a preventive of the coming of others to fill their places.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton