Then Scipio replied: The supposition is false, my Manilius; it is not merely a fiction, but a ridiculous and bungling one too; and we should not tolerate those statements, even in fiction, relating to facts which not only did not happen, but which never could have happened.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perhaps you are taking me, Zosia, not so much from attachment, as because your uncle and aunt are urging you to do so; but marriage, Zosia, is a very serious matter: take counsel of your own heart and do not hearken to any one's authority, either to your uncle's threats or to your aunt's entreaties.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But when they had seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive off from the palace one of the trace-pins broke, and, though they made one, two, and three to put in its place, that did not help them, for each broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they used to make them of.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

But in young Mrs. Gaily's small house where the housemaid is also the waitress, who is supposed to be "dressed" for lunch, it does not have to be pointed out that she can not sweep, dust, tidy up rooms, wash out bathtubs, polish fixtures, and at the same time be dressed in afternoon clothes.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It certainly does not help the run of the composition, although it may be useful in steadying it, and it is not a particularly beautiful thing in itself, as the position is one better suited to a man's leg than to a woman's.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Ill unto man, they neither doe, nor wish: Fishers they kill not, nor with noise awake, They doe not hunt, nor strive to make a prey 285 Of beasts, nor their yong sonnes to beare away; Foules they pursue not, nor do undertake To spoile the nests industrious birds do make; Yet them all these unkinde kinds feed upon, To kill them is an occupation, 290 And lawes make Fasts, and Lents for their destruction.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Did not He who said, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of God," [947] say also, "Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven?"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Endeavor always to be in your seat before the service commences, and after it is over do not hurry away, and, above all, do not begin your preparations for departure, by shutting up your book, or putting on any article of dress you have removed, before the benediction.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Ladies of fashion, by the way, do not have their hair especially dressed for formal occasions.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"I did not hear, captain.
— from No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The ladies cast appealing looks at the shepherd, who stared hard at the insignificant little wretches of dogs, one of whom barked all the while, but he did not heed it.
— from All About Dogs: A Book for Doggy People by Charles Henry Lane

She does not have it with women.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

She had been dried and withered by the heat, then half frozen by the cold night dew; now here was another day to face in this glare of light and cruel sunshine.
— from The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes

So, having conceived him to have been lawfully put to death, they consistently gave him a convict's grave: they made his grave with the wicked, and he was with the felon in his death , though—and on this the strophe emphatically ends—he was an innocent man, he had done no harm, neither was guile in his mouth .
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

The former list does not, however, exhaust the occasions on which reverence is paid to ancestors.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

He nodded, with a melancholy smile, at the face—so much aged—that looked at him from the bright surface, paid what was asked, and did not heed the compassionate glance which the barber and his assistant sent after him.
— from The Sisters — Volume 5 by Georg Ebers

Day never has anything the matter with him—that's one thing.
— from Affinities, and Other Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Death never had such a carnival, and each day consumes millions of treasure.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various