It is a question for which there is sufficient ground, whether the Persian Historians Rashiduddin and Wassáf, one or other or both, did not derive certain information that appears in their histories, from Marco Polo personally, he having spent many months in Persia, and at the Court of Tabriz, when either or both may have been there.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Rosalie did not drink coffee.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

All lions are fierce; Some lions do not drink coffee.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Cotta, Gaius Aurelius, distinguished orator; one of the speakers in Cicero's de Oratore and de Natura Deorum ; consul (75); ii , 59 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Such grief does not desire consolation.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Less superficial observers than young men engulfed by the whirlpool of Parisian life, or old men, who took no interest in anything that did not directly concern them, would not have stopped short at the vaguely unsatisfactory impression that Vautrin made upon them.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

La noción de gobierno, esto es, la de una entidad tutelar y directiva, nacida del consenso general, digna de respeto, necesariamente fuerte y obligatoriamente honesta, empezó a entrar en el alma nacional cuando, después de predicarla durante cuarenta años, Sarmiento la encarnó en la Presidencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But as the grades of its objectification do not directly concern the will itself, still less is it concerned by the multiplicity of the phenomena of these different grades, i.e. , the multitude of individuals of each form, or the particular manifestations of each force.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Conclusion wrong: right one is “Some fierce creatures do not drink coffee.” 13.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The industrial and financial fate of America and the world turns in the next few years—or even months, on news—on getting certain people to know in the nick of time that if they do not do certain things, certain things will happen.
— from The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want by Gerald Stanley Lee

People must bear the penalty of their misdeeds, families and all, and Mrs. and Miss Moy did not deserve consideration: the pretensions of the mother had always been half scorn, half thorn, to the old county families, and the fast airs of the daughter had been offensive enough to destroy all pity for her.
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I did not dare cross-question you before; but, as it is so, I will no longer hesitate."
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

"You do not doubt, countess, surely, that a great victory was gained by the soldiers of his Majesty?" "Doubt," the countess said, in a tone of slight surprise.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Neither dust nor damp can well affect them; the little light that suffices to illumine the poor ritual of Assisi, will take many a year to darken the tints of these pictures above the altar; and the old church above them will have crumbled into ruin before any accident can disturb the massive arches on whose interstices Giotto has painted these pictures.
— from Giotto by Harry Quilter

Or, finally, we may suppose that God fitted up for man some balmy spot, where neither decay nor death could enter, and where every thing was adapted for a being of perfect holiness and happiness.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

She was like the still Lake Camerino of Italy, which so easily becomes muddy that the Italians have a proverb, “Do not disturb Camerino.”
— from Flaxie Growing Up Flaxie Frizzle Stories by Sophie May

Or who is he, before whose door and into whose house such good works do not daily come, so that he would have no need to travel far or to ask after good works?
— from A Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther

In this Bill Byrnes was a great help to him, for all that Bill appeared to have the specialist's indifference toward what did not directly concern him.
— from The Last Penny by Edwin Lefevre

Only in rare instances does North Dakota corn reach the cash markets.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota