45 A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
— 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.

Camden in Norfolk: qui si nihil sit litium e juris apicibus lites tamen serere callent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Charles is not quite so lovely as he was.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

I am out of countenance to see myself in company with those young wanton creatures: “Cujus in indomito constantior inguine nervus, Quam nova collibus arbor inhaeret.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The canoe is now quite ready to be launched.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

—Casi instintivamente nos quitamos los morriones (cosa que chocó mucho a los franceses, los cuales seguían con sus gorros
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

quidem , adv. to be sure, certainly, indeed , nê ... quidem , not even quiês, -êtis , f. rest, repose quiêtus, -a, -um , adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The foregoing classification is not quite adequate nor wholly logical.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This casing is not quite circular in section, for two slots are cast in the circumference to allow water
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

I believe Mrs Charles is not quite pleased with my not inviting them oftener; but you know it is very bad to have children with one that one is obligated to be checking every moment; "don't do this," and "don't do that;" or that one can only keep in tolerable order by more cake than is good for them.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sleeping quarters for the force of eight workmen and the regular soldier from the United States Army, who had been detailed as a special guard, had been provided on the boat, but owing to the lack of space it had been found impracticable to arrange proper cooking facilities on the boat, and it had been found necessary to arrange to transport the workmen to Chopawamsic Island, near Quantico, Va., for their meals.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

This aspect of the consonance is now quite familiar; but let us carefully note how completely dependent it is on natural selection.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

In order to reach the vast docks which the Suez Canal Company has constructed on the western coast of the Red Sea, the canal is now quitted, and the vessel crosses the neck of the Red Sea.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

And consequently, though this chapter is not quite so bad as the well-known one "Concerning Owls," in Horrebow's Natural History of Iceland, the sum and substance of which is that "There are no owls of any kind in the whole Island"—it will be seen that the number of names is very small in which such a meaning is to be traced.
— from The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson

With you, I believe, that even if the Colonel is not quite sane, at the same time his fears are by no means imaginary.”
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer

Not having heard from you until March of this year I really began to think that my collections were so poor, that you were puzzled what to say; the case is now quite on the opposite tack; for you are guilty of exciting all my vain feelings to a most comfortable pitch; if hard work will atone for these thoughts, I vow it shall not be spared.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

They seemed desirous to give as bad an idea as possible of the road, as though they considered it not quite impossible for the ship to go further north, and thus to relieve them of all trouble and responsibility.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

let us once again "jog on the footpath way" as contentedly, if not quite as merrily, as ever; and, remembering how much we have seen and learnt that must surely better us both, let us, as we now lose sight of the dark, grey waters, gratefully, though sadly, speak the parting word:— Farewell to Cornwall!
— from Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins

"Sir John Jervis," he continued, "is not quite contented, but says nothing publicly."
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan