I did not speak, but looked out of window to the sea.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She was rather confirmed in her belief that things did not stand being looked into.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

I do not sleep, but lie in the drowsy, half-conscious condition in which you know you are not asleep, but dreaming.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For a long time Pierre did not sleep, but lay with eyes open in the darkness, listening to the regular snoring of Platón who lay beside him, and he felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring in his soul with a new beauty and on new and unshakable foundations.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Atrides' daughter never shall be led (An ill-match'd consort) to Achilles' bed; Like golden Venus though she charm'd the heart, And vied with Pallas in the works of art; Some greater Greek let those high nuptials grace, I hate alliance with a tyrant's race.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He did not speak, but listened to her excited, disconnected chatter, hardly understanding a word of it the while.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And, sister, as the winds give benefit And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, But let me hear from you.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

He did not speak, but looked at Shatov, and turned as white as his shirt.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He did not speak, but looked at his wife with sorrowful glances.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

At first, it is true, I did not sleep; but later I fell into an uneasy slumber, and, passing from one troubled dream to another--for which I had, doubtless, to thank the foul air of the room--I awoke at last with a start, to find some one leaning over me.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

If they admitted it aloud they would pass straight out of their bodies, alive; unhappiness was the same as death, not suffering; but letting suffering make you unhappy—curse God and die, curse life, that was letting life beat you; letting God beat you.
— from Honeycomb: Pilgrimage, Volume 3 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

He did not speak, but lit his candle and went off to his bed-cupboard under the stairs.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

For some minutes Mr. Atherton did not speak, but lay panting heavily.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

For a minute he did not speak, but looked at me with such a stony stare that his face seemed entirely changed; then he said slowly, but distinctly: "I hate you.
— from Roger Trewinion by Joseph Hocking

He took it to the light, and read it by the pure healthful gleams of morn: "Oh my dear brother Leonard, will this find you well, and (more happy I dare not say, but) less sad than when we parted?
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

For many hours he did not sleep, but lay keenly alert, his ears tuned to catch every sound that came out of the dark world about him.
— from Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

prowling about in her uncanny fashion, or perhaps her spirit, for how her body entered the place he could not guess, he did not stir, but lay breathing heavily and watching out of the corner of his eye.
— from A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He did not sleep but lay in a land between sleeping and waking.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson