the ruins are yet seen about Wessenburg from Rednich to Altimul.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

H2 anchor CHAPTER XIV When Princess Mary heard from Nicholas that her brother was with the Rostóvs at Yaroslávl she at once prepared to go there, in spite of her aunt’s efforts to dissuade her—and not merely to go herself but to take her nephew with her.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

White, red, and yellow Sanders:
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

As the husband of Mrs. Mirvan had borne so large a share in the disagreeable altercation, Lord Orville forbore to make any comments upon it; so that the subject was immediately dropt, and the conversation became calmly sociable, and politely cheerful, and, to every body but me, must have been highly agreeable:-but, as to myself, I was so eagerly desirous of making some apology to Lord Orville, for the impertinence of which he must have thought me guilty at the ridotto, and yet so utterly unable to assume sufficient courage to speak to him, concerning an affair in which I had so terribly exposed myself, that I hardly ventured to say a word all the time we were walking.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

What poor weak creatures are we, so fertile in good resolutions and yet so unfruitful of results, planting whole acres with fair promises, but when the tender shoots pierce the ground turning our back upon the crop as if it didn’t belong to us!
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

She was so constrained, and yet so careless; so reserved, and yet so watchful; so cold and proud, and yet so sensitively ashamed of her husband’s braggart humility—from which she shrunk as if every example of it were a cut or a blow; that it was quite a new sensation to observe her.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

She had compassion upon me and adopted me, and as I grew up I had all the rights and privileges of her son, and rank, as you say, with the princes of Egypt.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

With the little breath that remains, and yet struggling on the last confines of life, he makes a long speech, which the poet follows with bitter exclamations against his own age, beginning with venal Simon and his followers, and ending with the assassins of Thomas à Becket:— “Non adeo ambiret cathedræ venalis honorem Jam vetus ille Simon, non incentiva malorum Pollueret sacras funesta pecunia sedes.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

His mind reverted to the main difficulty, and he said, "Surely, Miss Marsden, I did not preach such a religion as you suggest."
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

Yet there is room amidst your studies, and without the slightest disparagement to them, for a message more directly from life, to hint to you, that more may be needed in the career to which you are looking forward than a college can give, and that the powers on which success in practical life depends may be somewhat different from those which avail most at your present stage.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great support from heaven, and that the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I. My dear children, call to mind the former days, "and the years of ancient times: remember also your songs in the night; and commune with your own heart" (Psa 73:5-12).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

For in the direction to produce brightness by smoothness, although properly it win no degree, and will never teach you any new particulars before unknown; yet by way of suggestion or bringing to mind it may draw your consideration to some particulars known but not remembered; as you shall sooner remember some practical means of making smoothness, than if you had fixed your consideration only upon brightness by making reflexion, as thus, make it such as you may see your face in it, this is merely secondary, and helpeth neither by way of informing nor by way of suggestion.
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

It was enough, now that the morning was fully opened and advancing to the splendor of noon, to sit upon the upper balcony, looking upon the Bras d'Or and the peaceful hills beyond, reposeful and yet sparkling with the air and color of summer, and inhale the balmy air.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

Bulgaria owes her independence to Russia, and yet seems willing now to become a vassal of Russia's enemies.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish