What his object can be in acting thus, in concealing himself after rendering us so many services, I cannot understand: But his services are not the less real, and are of such a nature that only a man possessed of prodigious power, could render them.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But although the existence of the township is coeval with that of man, its liberties are not the less rarely respected and easily destroyed.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Then when the morning's earliest ray Appeared upon the thirteenth day, Again the hero wept and sighed Distraught and sorrow-stupefied; Drew, sobbing in his anguish, near, The last remaining debt to clear, And at the bottom of the pyre, He thus bespake his royal sire: “O father, hast thou left me so, Deserted in my friendless woe, When he to whom the charge was given To keep me, to the wood is driven?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Here was room enough, and not the less room on account of the furniture; for indeed there was very little in it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Where the hard-worked soil gives three and even four crops a year through patches of sugar-cane, tobacco, long white radishes, and nol-kol, all that day they strolled on, turning aside to every glimpse of water; rousing village dogs and sleeping villages at noonday; the lama replying to the volleyed questions with an unswerving simplicity.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The very floor of one of the bar-rooms, in a neighborhood that lately resounded with the cry for bread of starving workmen, is paved with silver dollars!
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

But all this well-labored system of German antiquities is annihilated by a single fact, too well attested to admit of any doubt, and of too decisive a nature to leave room for any reply.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

His eye lacked lustre.—Not so, thought Susan P——; who, at the advanced age of sixty, was seen, in the cold evening time, unaccompanied, wetting the pavement of B——d Row, with tears that fell in drops which might be heard, because her friend had died that day—he, whom she had pursued with a hopeless passion for the last forty years—a passion, which years could not extinguish or abate; nor the long resolved, yet gently enforced, puttings off of unrelenting bachelorhood dissuade from its cherished purpose.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Their only contrariety to grammar consists in this, that the words are not the literal representatives of the number for which they are put.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The latter was very short, and set forth that Giovanni Saracinesca bound himself upon his word to appear in the trial of the murderer of Prince Montevarchi, if called upon to do so, and not to leave Rome until the matter was finally concluded and set at rest.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

I want but her,—her love, and not the lukewarm regard of a sister.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Then Tydeus' son amid the war-storm met Spearman Coroebus, lordly Mygdon's son, And 'neath the left ribs pierced him with the lance Where run the life-ways of man's meat and drink; So met him black death borne upon the spear: Down in dark blood he fell mid hosts of slain.
— from The Fall of Troy by Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century

1 The history and the fate of this extraordinary result of human knowledge and of sublime metaphysics, are not the least remarkable in the philosophy of bibliography.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Still, the opinions, pleas, and judgments of society serve as boundaries which are none the less real for being intangible.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

"And now the last ray of lingering light had departed, and they were left in darkness.
— from The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

They are not the less rigidly in accordance with natural law than any other.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams