She comforted herself however, on the first appearance of her pregnancy, that so odious a surname should be qualified in her children with the genteelest and most elegant Christian names that history or romance could supply. - - - My eldest sister, who came into the world a year after, was called Wilhelmina Charlotta, the second Penthesilea, the third Telethusa, and the fourth Honoria.
The burning of a few heretics would be in principle no more repugnant to us than gagging; neither would a little Guy Fawkesing about Westminster, though the latter diversion might come home to honourable members disagreeably.
This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of soaking, which means a man sticks his penis in a vagina but dosn't move it around, therefore it somehow doesn't count as sex. Gimme a break.)
The dell and dingle have their different spirits, the wood and rivulet theirs; and the gentlehearted peasants who inhabit them are, in some instances, almost as rigidly tenacious of the privileges of the genius loci, as they are of their own rights ...
