I am aware, now, that I ought not to have asked of the sturdiest citizen of all that region, what I asked of that mere shadow of a man; for, after seven years’ residence on the Pacific coast, I know that no passenger or driver on the Overland ever corked that anecdote in, when a stranger was by, and survived.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

[9] para no, so as not to; in order not to .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“And now, think it or not,” said Mrs. Sumfit, “I got that power over him, from doctorin' him, and cookin' for him, I persuaded him to help my poor Dahly in my blessed's need.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

But the grossest errour of this kind is the solemn introduction of the Phoenix in the last scene; which is faulty, not only as it is incongruous to the personage to whom it is ascribed, but as it is so evidently contrary to reason and nature, that it ought never to be mentioned but as a fable in any serious poem: —Virtue giv'n for lost, Deprest, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

If this reproach is well founded (which it is impossible for me either to deny or admit, because in my own cause I cannot be judge),—if, I say, I deserve this charge, I can only humble myself and acknowledge myself guilty of an involuntary wrong; the only excuse that I could offer being of such a nature that it ought not to be communicated to the public.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

—The example of the apostolic Church points in the same direction; we have already noticed the intensity of natural affection which was displayed even by a man so thoroughly and heroically devoted to Christian service as was the apostle Paul.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

I therefore sent a message to him to the effect that I had no doubt he was a most admirable individual, but, strange to relate, till the arrival of his message I had been unaware of his existence; that my object in coming to the country was to shoot elephant, and not to interview obscure natives.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

This I think a charge of such a nature, that it ought not to be advanced against us, either by you, Romans, or by any in your presence.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

"And now, think it or not," said Mrs. Sumfit, "I got that power over him, from doctorin' him, and cookin' for him, I persuaded him to help my poor Dahly in my blessed's need.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 by George Meredith

"I wish to ask nothing that I ought not.
— from Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

He has affected neither the insipidity of neutrality, nor the bigotry of party zeal.
— from Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell