“Not in the least, if you will only give me the voluptuous satisfaction of hearing all the details from your lips afterwards; it would stimulate us both to additional raptures, and spur our desires to renewed combats.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Further, however, I maintain that as a rule, at the age when squint usually begins, the accommodation really suffices to overcome even high degrees of hypermetropia.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

Our mechanical contrivances seem to serve us; but they are really mastering us, crowding and crushing the beauty out of our lives, and making commerce the only god."
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

The college has been swallowed up, but the almshouses remain, though transferred to Highgate.
— from London by Walter Besant

The following morning, taking one man and Harry with me, we made a close search down the most promising watercourses and lagoons, but upon riding down even the deepest of them, we invariably found them break off into several insignificant channels, which again subdivided, and in a short distance dissipated the waters, derived from what had appeared the dry bed of a large river, on the absorbing plain; returning in disappointment to the camp, I sent my lightest man and Harry on other horses to look into the channels still unexamined, but they also returned unsuccessful.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

Thus, on the most arid and sterile ground on the mountain sides in the south, and especially in Spain, plants of this genus flourish with more vigor in the season when most other vegetation is scorched up by the ardent rays of the sun, and the Lavandula vera seems to have a predilection for such spots.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various

commanded Jack Benson, standing unflinchingly before the angry rascal.
— from The Submarine Boys and the Middies Or, the Prize Detail at Annapolis by Victor G. Durham

Despite these diversions, time hung rather heavily on their hands until, at last, by the end of February 1919, all the demobilisable officers and men had gone, and those who remained were sent up by train as reinforcements to the R.A.F. with the Army of the Rhine.
— from Sixty Squadron R.A.F.: A History of the Squadron from its Formation by A. J. L. (Alan John Lance) Scott