It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thorough-fare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam —Advise your friends in private, praise them openly.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Churchwarden , a long pipe, “a yard of clay;” probably so called from the dignity which seems to hedge the smoker of a churchwarden, and the responsibility attached to its use.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I know several who admire and love painting, and yet who regard the objects of their admiration in that art with coolness enough in comparison of that warmth with which they are animated by affecting pieces of poetry or rhetoric.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I still had a loaded pistol and you were in full fight, sword in hand.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I make as much, or as little, probably, as you do yourself."
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

At the same time, how “I who think” is distinct from the “i” which intuites itself (other modes of intuition being cogitable as at least possible), and yet one and the same with this latter as the same subject; how, therefore, I am able to say: “I, as an intelligence and thinking subject, cognize myself as an object thought, so far as I am, moreover, given to myself in intuition—only, like other phenomena, not as I am in myself, and as considered by the understanding, but merely as I appear”—is a question that has in it neither more nor less difficulty than the question—“How can I be an object to myself?” or this—“How I can be an object of my own intuition and internal perceptions?”
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Fitzsimons said he had ridden over every inch of my estate; and ‘faith, as he chose to tell these stories for me, I let him have his way—indeed, was not a little pleased (as youth is) to be made much of, and to pass for a great personage.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

CHURCHWARDEN, a long pipe, “ A YARD OF CLAY .”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

His may seem to the Yankee onlooker but a losing play, and yet—who knows?
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

“Then I’ll cut you a long pole, and you can prod them in the ribs, and punch them up with it,” said Steve.
— from By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water). by Boyd Cable

In Roberson v. The Rochester Folding Box Company, 171 New York 538, the suit was brought on behalf of a living person, a young lady, to restrain a flour company from putting her
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

have but a little patience, and you shall find that you will be ready enough; for sure you did not think I meant a real death.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

The whole construction has a light, pleasing, and yet thoroughly solid appearance.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

She was a little pale, and yet she smiled.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

And, Checkers, if you should have misfortune, and should really need to, don't hesitate to spend it; because, you see, if you don't have good luck, so that you do n't need to spend it, why it is n't a lucky piece, and you 'd better get rid of it—that is, if—if you have to.
— from Checkers: A Hard-luck Story by Henry Blossom

“I am as little patient as yourself,” said I. “I care not who knows that.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson