When the wife wants to approach her husband in private her dress should consist of many ornaments, various kinds of flowers, and a cloth decorated with different colours, and some [99] sweet-smelling ointments or unguents.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He stands confessed of monism out of his own mouth.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Thus, I say, Again, again, 'tmust be confessed there are Such congregations of matter otherwhere, Like this our world which vasty ether holds In huge embrace.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

'slight, Have yet some care of me, of your republic— FACE.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Her eyes where shining brighter than the Star; And she began to say, gentle and low, With voice angelical, in her own language: 'O spirit courteous of Mantua, Of whom the fame still in the world endures, And shall endure, long-lasting as the world; A friend of mine, and not the friend of fortune, Upon the desert slope is so impeded Upon his way, that he has turned through terror, And may, I fear, already be so lost, That I too late have risen to his succour, From that which I have heard of him in Heaven.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

At first, she seemed to wish to shun me; and then, yielding to my earnest questioning, she threw herself on my neck, and wept aloud:—"Once more," she cried, "once more on your friendly breast, my beloved brother, can the lost Perdita pour forth her sorrows.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“I seem to myself as though living a life of bondage, yet at the same time am so conscious of my own weakness that I fear to break the restraint in which I am held, lest I fall utterly helpless.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He asked me for the next day to a supper composed of men only, and for the day after that, to a supper at which women as well as men would be present.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

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— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

This may be to exaggerate: yet it serves to impress the comparatively secondary character of many of the circumstances on which the specially mesmeric or hypnotic experimentalist is apt to lay exclusive stress.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

And the sanitary condition of many of the Chinese cities and the density of their populations are such that we can scarcely hope for China a future much freer from such plagues than her past has been.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln

Make a brown sauce and add to it half a small can of mushrooms, or four ounces of fresh ones.
— from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three by Maria Parloa