You'll remember, Miss, that this is my house, and that you are living on my money, and behave yourself."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

"I met him at the Bedford, when I went to look for you; and I told him that Miss Amelia was come home, and that we were all bent on going out for a night's pleasuring; and that Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child's party.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

(ALLIE MAYO, who has stepped inside the door and moved half across the room, toward the corridor at the right, is arrested by this last—stands a moment as if seeing through something, then slowly on, and out .)
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Each individual, before a part of a great whole moving only in unison with others, now became resolved into the unit nature had made him, and thought of himself only.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

" "Yes, they must have anticipated the time appointed; the barricade is taken: I have just come from it.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Oh dear, has my nephew made his addresses to Millamant?
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

No one made his appearance thereafter on that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Grotesque and downright ugly as are these figures, yet those representing men and women are extremely interesting from the light they throw upon the stage of civilization their makers had attained to, for they illustrate the fashion of the garments as also of the ornaments they wore, and of the arms or implements carried by them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She then desired me to lay myself on the floor, with three pillows to raise my head, and lifting up all her petticoats, and striding across me, with her back to my face, she knelt down, then stooping forward, she took my standing prick in her mouth, and at the same time lowering her buttocks, brought her beautiful cunt right over and down upon my mouth, the pillows exactly supporting my head at the proper level, to command a thorough enjoyment of the whole, which now I had completely before my eyes.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Uncle Herbert was right, for I did not awake till nearly noon, to find the cabin sweltering in the midday heat and the "Fortuna" passing through the last of the Bitter Lakes, Ismaïlia having been left astern two hours after daybreak.
— from The Treasure of the "San Philipo" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

The characters are intensely alive, the situations are handled by a master hand, and the whole play is pregnant with that high and solemn pathos which is the gift of the born writer of tragedies.
— from The Everlasting Mercy by John Masefield

"This man has a tape-worm.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

It was about a month subsequent that Tom missed his afternoon train down the river, and took another, which left later, not reaching New York till late at night.
— from Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won by Edward Sylvester Ellis

There were numerous hard-faced men hanging about the streets, and it jarred on her to see the rows of well-dressed loungers in the hotels lolling in wooden chairs close against the great windows, a foot or two from the street.
— from Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

The Master hear about there going be an auction one day and he figgered maybe he needed some more slaves if they was good ones, so he took me and started [Pg 149] out early in the morning.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Byron, with the captain, rode out some distance into the country, while I walked with Mr Hobhouse about the town: we left our cards for the consul, and Mr Hill, the ambassador, who invited us to dinner.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Mr. Hutton apprehended that the famous well where Richard slaked his thirst would sink into oblivion.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone