Amazed, embarrassed, and irresolute He found himself incapable of pronouncing a syllable, and remained in silence gazing upon Matilda: This gave her opportunity to continue her explanation as follows.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

When a man wishes to enlarge his lingam, he should rub it with the bristles of certain insects that live in trees, and then, after rubbing it for ten nights with oils, he should again rub it with the bristles as before.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

In other words, those races of beings only can have survived in which, on the average, agreeable or desired feelings went along with activities conducive to the maintenance of life, while disagreeable and habitually-avoided feelings went along with activities directly or indirectly destructive of life; and there must ever have been, other things equal, the most numerous and long-continued survivals among races in which these adjustments of feelings to actions were the best, tending ever to bring about perfect adjustment.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[188] “Having thus much, not without travail and some charges, noted for the antiquitie of the Vintners, about two years since or more I repayred to the common-hall of that company, and there showed and read it in a court of assistance, requiring them, as being one of the principal companies in the citie (of whom I meant therefore to write the more at large) that if they knew any more which might sound to their worship or commendation, at their leisure to send it me, and I would joyne it to my former collection; at which time I was answered by some that tooke upon them the speech, that they were none of the principall, but of the inferior companies; and so willing me to leave them, I departed, and never since heard from them, which hath somewhat discouraged me any farther to travail amongst the companies to learne ought at their handes.”—
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

At Nandavaram they looked back, and the goddess instantly stopped, and remained immoveable.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

So, soon after rising, I went and plunged into the waters of this new Mediterranean.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The movement from unity into multiplicity, between 1200 and 1900, was unbroken in sequence, and rapid in acceleration.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But Alexander was well stocked with Peripatetic subterfuges, and retorted, “Inanimate things cannot conquer; nor do we contend with such, but only with the whole race of men and beasts.”
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

In some pieces small tufts of wool protrude from the sides at regular intervals of one or more feet.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

They had already gone to her once with that intention, but as soon as they had introduced the subject such a terrified expression had come into the woman's eyes, something so shy and reserved into her manner, that it would have been more than tactless to continue the conversation.
— from The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

They were set up either separately, as represented in fig.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

us bird, but, like the sparrow and rook, is much persecuted for its good services.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Yes. I daresay we shall all remember it.
— from The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Such a receiver is almost entirely non-syntonic; that is to say, it is affected by any wave passing over it which is sufficiently powerful.
— from Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir