And it is bound to seem so to him: the intervals of two hours of sleep he does not remember, he only remembers the moments of waking, so he feels he has been waked up all night.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this information.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It did not rise into painful prominence, however, until Christian times, when absolute moral perfection and absolute physical efficacy were predicated of God with equal emphasis, if not among the people who never have conceived God as either perfectly good or entirely omnipotent, at least among the theologians.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The rich merchants in Bremen and Lubeck, who carried on trade in Copenhagen, did not reside in the town themselves, but sent their clerks, who dwelt in the wooden booths in the Hauschen street, and sold beer and spices.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

No, I shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are saying.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They met in a valley, but did not recognize each other; yet they rejoiced that they were no longer so lonely.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She did not really like her.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

hīs rēbus fīēbat, ut minus lātē vagārentur , 1, 2, 4, so it came to pass that they did not rove round much .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He was annoyed at the manner in which his gift had been returned, as though he had condescended, under the influence of passion, to place himself on a level with Ptitsin and Ferdishenko, his self-respect and sense of duty now returned together with a consciousness of what was due to his social rank and official importance.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The sick man did not regain consciousness; the convulsions ceased for a time, but then began again, and every one concluded that the same thing would happen, as had happened a year before, when he accidentally fell from the garret.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No, I’d go smash in Dog Nose Rapids.”
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

I did not reflect that this fellow might know something of Major Butler, though I am pretty sure he kept as clear of the major as a clean pair of heels would allow him.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

She did not raise her eyes.
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It wets the wall as much as water on the earth would, but it does not run off.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

He is, himself, a very simple, good-natured fellow, and does not require much pressing to sing whenever he is asked.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

I do not regret this attitude towards life.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

One said it was a preventive of small-pox, but this view did not receive general support.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Her lover was a handsome fellow, with a bright, frank face, and a vigorous, agile, and graceful form; there was more than common intellect in his clear, broad brow, overhung with close clusters of brown country curls; taste was on his lips and tenderness in his eyes; his soul was full of generosity, candor, and fidelity; his every movement and attitude denoted native refinement, and in his talk he displayed an excellent understanding and remarkable cultivation; for his father had bestowed on him superior advantages of education;—"as fine a young fellow, Sir," that estimable old Doctor Vandyke would say, "as ever you saw."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Still she did not return.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy