They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

You have in this case, however, a result which is not general and universal—there is usually an important preponderance, but not always on the same side.
— from The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation Lecture IV. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species" by Thomas Henry Huxley

Never show by your demeanour that you have heard any remark which is not addressed to you.”
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

They have a religion which is not a pure Christianity and which does not even involve morality.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888 by Various

If my husband can be of any service, weak as he is, he will be carried in a chair to serve a brother officer for whom he hath a regard, which I need not mention.
— from Amelia — Volume 3 by Henry Fielding

A second shower drove us for shelter to a farmhouse, where we entered a sort of oratorio attached to the house; a room which is not consecrated, but has an altar, crucifix, holy pictures, etc.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Hovering between hope and remembrance, was I not expecting new pleasures with an insatiable longing?
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

He has a reserve which is not cynical, but only diffident; yet it gives him, at least at first sight, and till you have become familiar with his features, which are of a cast at once refined and aristocratic, yet full of goodness—an air of hauteur, which is very—very far from his real nature.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

It is hard, however, to catch Schopenhauer napping, and for this he has a remedy which, if not within the reach of all, is none the less efficacious.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

He had, however, a rival, who is noted in one of the papers of the Spectator, and called the whistling man.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt