p. 384,) and the constitution of Childebert, not of Paris, but most evidently of Austrasia, (in tom. iv.
— 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

The wish of distinguishing her, as far as civility permitted, was very evident, though it could not often proceed beyond a look.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

An odd issue of currency, not of paper, but of leather, took place in Italy a few years before Polo's birth.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I, on the other hand, in less than ten years conquered not only Persia but India too.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[“It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And either because her Giant was very friendly with Count Nulin, or perhaps by chance, she rode all the time beside Nikitin, as she had done the day before, and the day before that.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He excited no one’s envy, it was not even suspected that he was rich till the peril of being rich was over, and all his intelligence was concentrated, not on political, but on commercial speculations.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Tho' the Roman Catholick Notion of Purgatory be indeed very ridiculous, one cannot but think that if the Soul after Death has any Knowledge of what passes in this World, that of an immoral Writer would receive much more Regret from the Sense of corrupting, than Satisfaction from the Thought of pleasing his surviving Admirers.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Till then I banish thee, on pain of death, As I have done the rest of my misleaders, Not to come near our person by ten mile.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The artist knew well this state of mind: the result, not of cowardice nor of pusillanimity, but of that treachery of the will, that fatal irresolution when the moment for striking has arrived, which is inherent in men made for contemplation rather than for action.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

A crowd not of paupers but well-dressed people roaring and raging and besieging the portals of the Stock Exchange.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

“In 1472,” says the author of “The History of Paris” and of the “Singularités Historiques,” “Hermann Von Stathoen came from Mayence to Paris entrusted by the famous printers Scheffer and Hanequis to sell a certain number of printed books.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Of course for this continuance and permanence of love there must be a certain amount of continence, not only physical, but on the emotional plane as well.
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter

In the first place, space, and time also, so far as we are thinking of the world, and not of our apprehension of it, as undergoing a temporal process, are essentially characteristics not of perception but of the reality perceived, and Kant, in treating space, and time, so regarded, as forms of perception, is really transferring to the perceiving subject that which in the whole fact 'perception of an object' or 'object perceived' belongs to the object.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

He gave a half-muffled cry, not of pain, but of satisfaction.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile

In the few moments that passed while Gibbie burned through a round of the rope, Angus imagined a considerable number of pangs; but when Gibbie rose and hopped away, he discovered that his feet were at liberty, and scrambled up, his head dizzy, and his body reeling.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

Those stars are called not only Pleiades, but Vergiliæ, from a word mingling the ideas of the turning or returning of springtime with the outpouring of rain.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

Our meetings are usually closed by playing one of the Chautauqua games, which we consider not only pleasant, but healthful, as they give us a constant review of our work.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

Later the saloons will be well frequented, and not seldom the young fiddlers may pick up a few, sometimes a considerable number of pennies, by playing at the doors of these places, or within, if they should be invited to enter; but at six there is not much to be done.
— from Phil, the Fiddler by Alger, Horatio, Jr.