In the second place, the Diamond is not now, and never has been, in her possession, since she put it into her cabinet on Wednesday night.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

This symbolism, which represents man as a temple, a house, a sacred building in which God is to dwell, is not new, nor peculiar to the masonic science.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Dalikyátun (dalikyátan, idalikyat) ni nátù paghisgut, Let’s take out a second to talk this over.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat—I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Whether, under different circumstances, I might ever have renewed the old dream I sometimes dreamed when you were very young, of making you my wife one day, I need not ask myself.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

However, doctor, I need not warn you to be careful.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

This distinction is natural, not artificial.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Descriptions involving neither numerical statements nor physical characteristics may be expressed by either the genitive or the ablative with a modifying adjective.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The Savages of America, are not without some good Morall Sentences; also they have a little Arithmetick, to adde, and divide in Numbers not too great: but they are not therefore Philosophers.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The word Democracy is not new, and in all ages it has signified what it signifies now.
— from Democracy in France. January 1849 by François Guizot

Does it now necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense?
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

For the fact of its being light, is a necessary consequence of its being day; but the fact of its being day, is not necessarily a consequence of its being light.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The butyric acid, which separates on the surface of the liquid as a dark-colored oil, is to be removed, and the rest of the liquid distilled; the distillate is now neutralized with carbonate of soda, and the butyric acid separated as before, with sulphuric acid.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

Mr. Shubrick laughed out "Do you doubt it?" "No, not at all," said Dolly, laughing a little herself.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

The doctrine is not new in the scientific world.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

In 1572, she put a French veguer there to administer justice, whereupon the inquisitors commenced to gather information about him, as a presumable Huguenot, and the Suprema ordered them to arrest him if sufficient evidence could be found, but, as the attempt was likely to prove dangerous, it need not be made unless the viceroy would furnish a sufficient guard, which apparently he declined to do.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea