Am I not good enough?" Volodya frowned with annoyance and said: "Why do you want science all of a sudden?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The cottage seemed to be considered and loved by him as his home; many more of his hours were spent there than at Allenham; and if no general engagement collected them at the park, the exercise which called him out in the morning was almost certain of ending there, where the rest of the day was spent by himself at the side of Marianne, and by his favourite pointer at her feet.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

It's like a dream, and I never guessed even in my sleep that I should ever talk with any woman."
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Queſta yſola ſta de Latitudine aL polo articho in noue gradi et vno terſo et cento et ſeptanta vno et vno terſo de Longitudine de La lignea ripartitiõe pulaoan.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

"It does not please me," said the fiddler, "to hear you always wishing for another husband; am I not good enough for you?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He told me all I needed, graciously;— Enough for guidance, and for victory O’er doubts and fears, enough for quiet rest; And when some veiled response I could not read, It was not hid from Him,—this was enough indeed.
— from Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal

At the same time their army in Northern Greece effectually engaged the attention of Philip.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell

The very air is not good enough for them: there is too much factory smoke in it.
— from Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by Bernard Shaw

Since 2000, Qatar has consistently posted trade surpluses largely because of high oil prices and increased natural gas exports, and Qatar's economy is expected to receive an added boost as it begins to increase liquid natural gas exports.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Or am I not good enough to be your life-companion?
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Patty acts as if no girl ever had a lover before.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

Am I not good enough for you?”
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm