It was evidenced even in her mode of handling my prick; without grasping it, her hand appeared to pass over it hardly touching it, but in so exciting a manner that after any number of encounters, she could raise it by her fairy touch in a moment.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

However, Veronique said that she could repeat it by heart.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it—her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

This operation of nature goes on ad infinitum; she cannot rest inactive, but neither can she keep and preserve all that she has produced.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

All surplus Commonwealth revenue is, by the present law, returnable to the States, and the total annual amount so returned must not be less than three-fourths of the total proceeds of Customs and Excise; so large are these proceeds, and
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

It has been [182] seen that the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Southern Uplands continue into Ireland, and that the beds of similar characters run in belts having a general east-north-east and west-south-west trend, which accordingly must have been the direction of the coast-line parallel to which they were deposited, and as that coast-line was due to uplift, the movement which produced it would naturally produce foldings with east-north-east and west-south-west trend.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

The tragic close of this prince's reign will never be forgotten while —— ——"The hallowed crown Shall round the mortal temples of a king," or Shakspeare's celebrated "Richard II." be extant.
— from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

I once had a large jar of sour milk standing before the fire, which I was going to make into cottage-cheese, when one of the servants came running, in breathless haste, with the news that three British soldiers were approaching the house.
— from A Grandmother's Recollections by Ella Rodman Church

Now thy answer, is, "Some are sensual, having not the spirit, because they receive it not, and some cannot receive it, because they believe not on him from whence it comes."
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan