Inadvertent Obscenity # 14

Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow,
Swinburne Itylus

Inadvertent Obscenity #13

There's nothing like life! When you're finished, squeezed dry and used up and you think the sack's empty, you're still appealed to, you still get touches and thrills, the idea springs up - out of the lap of the actual - and shows you there's always something to be done!

Henry James The Lesson of the Master

Inadvertent Obscenity #12

Oscar Browning assisted young Italians, as he had young Englishmen, towards the openings they desired.
Dictionary of National Biography

Inadvertent Obscenity #11

I have not the least doubt Miss Milroy is a charming girl. Think of her pretty muslin dress flitting about among your trees and committing trespasses on your property; think of her adorable feet trotting into your fruit-garden, and her delicious fresh lips kissing your ripe peaches; think of her dimpled hands among your early violets, and her little cream coloured nose buried in your blush roses...

Wilkie Collins Armadale

Inadvertent Obscenity #10

My pen is at the bottom of a page....

Byron Beppo

Inadvertent Obscenity #9

Chichikov for his part was very glad to settle down for a time in the house of so peaceful and quiet a man. He was tired of his gypsy life. To have a rest even for only a month in a beautiful country place in view of the fields and at the time of approaching spring was beneficial even from the point of view of his haemorrhoids. It would have been hard to find a better spot for a rest.

Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

Inadvertent Obscenity #8

At that moment the servant appeared with a smoking joint...

George Gissing New Grub Street

Inadvertent Obscenity #7

When shall I be well enough to swing, I wonder?

Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Trail of the Serpent

Inadvertent Obscenity #6

The face of this fair creature had a pure oval, and her clear, brown eye a quiet warmth ...the young man stood facing her, slowly scratching his thigh, and shifting from one foot to the other. He had honest, stupid, blue eyes, and a simple smile that showed his handsome teeth. He was very well dressed. ‘I suppose it’s pretty big,’ said the beautiful young girl. ‘Yes, it’s pretty big,’ said the handsome young man. ‘It’s nicer when they are big,’ said his interlocutress, and for some time no further remark was made.

Henry James Portraits of Places

Inadvertent Obscenity #5

The only right of a woman she wanted was to climb up on top of something...

Henry James The Bostonians

Inadvertent Obscenity #4

The sound in my ears was not the sound of Mr Creakle giving it to Traddles, but the sound of the coachman touching up the horses.

Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Inadvertent Obscenity #3

There was no resisting this: the two young men turned their faces to the window, and 'went off' like a couple of bottles of ginger beer.

Charles Dickens The Boarding House

Inadvertent Obscenity #2

The three boys sallied out; the Dodger with his coat sleeves tucked up, and his hat cocked as usual; Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets; and Oliver between them, wondering where they were going...

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

Inadvertent obscenity #1

She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch, even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.

Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit