Our first attempt at classification is not very successful.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Freedom Of The Chaperoned As a matter of fact the only young girl who is really "free," is she whose chaperon is never very far away.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

the latter Case is not very common but We have Seen 3 instances of it among the Chopunnish.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Note 73 ( return ) [ This computation is not very different from that which M. Brotier, the last editor of Tacitus, (tom. ii.
— 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

Most of my communication is now via e-mail.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Whoever shall take upon him to watch another’s behaviour in such a confusion is not very busy himself, and the testimony he shall give of his companions’ deportment will be evidence against himself: “Vera et sapiens animi magnitudo, honestum illud, quod maxime naturam sequitur, in factis positum, non in gloria, judicat.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued above all.
— 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.

“No house is supposed to be without its tutelary divinity, but the notion attached to this character is now very far from precise.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

This construction is not very common in classical Latin, where few verbs and substantives take it instead of the usual ad and the accusative ( 2252 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For even a skilled player sitting in the first base bleachers at a baseball game to criticise an umpire's decisions on balls and strikes is absurd; the opinion of a transient visitor to Panama on the methods used in digging the canal is not valuable; a traveler who has spent a single month in Japan cannot draw reliable conclusions on the merits and defects of its political structure.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

Certainly; but we have been speaking of a visible unity, and Jesus Christ is not visible to us.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

The harbor at the city is not very well protected, but there is a little bay about eight miles away which affords both deep water and shelter.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

After this ceremony he conducted his guest homeward by a pleasant and circuitous route, commanding an extensive prospect of different villages and houses, to each of which Mr. Bradwardine attached some anecdote of history or genealogy, told in language whimsical from prejudice and pedantry, but often respectable for the good sense and honourable feelings which his narrative displayed, and almost always curious, if not valuable, for the information they contained.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Here the bandage was taken from his eyes, and when the dimness had a little subsided, he beheld that heroic lady for the first time whom he had often compared, in no very moderate terms, to Jezebel, and many other names equally appropriate.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

"Lie still," said the Wheat, "the corncrake is not very far off, he has come up here since your papa told the mowers to mow the meadow, and very likely if you stay quiet you will see him.
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

He succeeded in attracting to himself all the available gifts of masculine clothing, of which he probably received enough and to sell, and he had somehow wooed and won a capable, if not very comely, wife, who supplemented his income by her own labour, and managed her house and husband to admiration.
— from The Stoneground Ghost Tales Compiled from the recollections of the reverend Roland Batchel, the vicar of the parish. by E. G. (Edmund Gill) Swain

Betty Blane, Erica Peters, and Peggy Collins, comparing injured notes, viewed the matter from a different angle.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

When the toiler's heart you clutch, Conscience is not valued much, He recks not a bloody smutch On his gold: Everything to you defers, [Pg 188] You are potent reasoners, At your whisper Treason stirs, Hunger and Cold!
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

In one respect this season is peculiarly propitious to the insect, as the reindeer's coat is now very thin, most of the hair of last year's growth being fallen off.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2 by Carl von Linné