After all, it is better to give pie to your own men than to strangers, who may be only seeking to devour, and the doctor himself is as well-looking a man as you often come across.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She little guessed the struggle within my breast, or the effort of self-restraint which held me back.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

It was a broad panelled staircase, with massive balustrades of some dark wood; cornices above the doors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers; and broad seats in the windows.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Another species of mitigated scepticism which may be of advantage to mankind, and which may be the natural result of the Pyrrhonian doubts and scruples, is the limitation of our enquiries to such subjects as are best adapted to the narrow capacity of human understanding.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

She clasped me with a hug, as if she would make but one body of us both, and spent with a scream of agonized delight, pouring down and spurting out a perfect torrent of boiling spunk all over my cods and thighs.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

There are laws that govern the stage which must be obeyed; play-writing is a great art in itself, entirely distinct from literary composition.
— from Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nevertheless, in accepting this conclusion as well established by linguistic science, we must be on our guard against an error into which writers on mythology are very liable to fall.
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Early in June and in September spinners with meat bait or salmon eggs are used.
— from Your National Parks, with Detailed Information for Tourists by Enos A. Mills

Go: ask SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED.
— from Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

Queen Victoria bears her arms on a full and complete shield; "for," says the old rhyme— "Our sagest men of lore define The kingly state as masculine, Paiseant, martial bold and strong, The stay of right, the scourge of wrong; Hence those that England's sceptre wield, Must buckle on broad sword and shield, And o'er the land, and o'er the sea, Maintain her sway triumphantly."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

I therefore went to the chapel, and finding the figure, saw what must be obvious to any one who looks at it with attention, I mean, firstly, how fine it was, and secondly, that it had not been designed for its present place.
— from Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia With Some Notice of Tabachetti's Remaining Work at the Sanctuary of Crea by Samuel Butler

[as,] 'I humbly however trust in God, that I have hazarded no conjecture, nor have given any explanation of obscure points, inconsistent with the general sense of Scripture, which must be our guide in all dubious passages.' Gilpin .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

the snow, we may be out very much longer—till toward Christmas; though I will try to be back to vote.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

We must make a proper start before ever we can get on; and in order to make a proper start we must break our links with the world, or, rather, we must believe and practically carry out the fact that God has broken them for us in the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh