There were other curtains of the same breadth with these, but one more in number, and longer, for they were thirty cubits long; but these were woven of hair, with the like subtilty as those of wool were made, and were extended loosely down to the ground, appearing like a triangular front and elevation at the gates, the eleventh curtain being used for this very purpose.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Some verbs in -nd and -ld form their past tense by changing this d to t .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Thus our conception of time explains the possibility of so much synthetical knowledge a priori, as is exhibited in the general doctrine of motion, which is not a little fruitful.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

May the Gods continue and perpetuate amongst these nations, if not any love for us, yet by all means this their animosity and hate towards each other: since whilst the destiny of the Empire thus urges it, fortune cannot more signally befriend us, than in sowing strife amongst our foes.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On the contrary, Heyward thought the manner of the young Mohican was disdainful, if not a little fierce, and that he suppressed passions that were ready to explode, as much in compliment to the listeners, as from the deference he usually paid to his white associate.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

However, an individual is not, at least from a sociological point of view, a member of a community because he lives in it but rather because, and to the extent that, he participates in the common life of the community.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

They won’t notice me, and I need a little fresh air, for you’ve come just in the nick of time—another two minutes and I should have come to blows!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then he said to himself: “The light of the sun is not a liquid; for if it were a liquid it would be possible to pour it from one vessel into another, and it would be moved, like water, by the wind.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Miss Anthony wrote to Lucretia Mott: "Was it not a little funny that this unsentimental personage should have suggested the thing and stirred so many to do the sentimental, and yet could not even take the time to go to the wharf and say good-by?
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It is not a land for people who think; the world owes them a living.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

It must not be supposed that the grayling is not a leaping fish because it takes the fly from beneath the surface of the water.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

But Israel or Jacob is not a label for the mere national idea, or the bare political framework, without regard to the living individuals included in it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

Now they returned, and it was evident that the men were angry, if not a little frightened.
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson

at any rate, why is not a little fringe of lace painted round it?
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

The limitation of bisection which is involved in the continuity of space, is not absolute limitation, for that which is limited is again continuity; however, this continuity is again not absolute, for the opposite has to be exhibited in it, the limitation of bisection; but the limitation of continuity is still not thereby established, the half is still continuous, [269] and so on into infinity.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The vision which he had just described struck my imagination not a little, for this was long before Vathek and the "Hall of Iblis" had delighted the world; and the description which he gave had, as I received it, all the attractions of novelty beside the impressiveness which always belongs to the narration of an eye-witness , whether in the body or in the spirit, of the scenes which he describes.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The hunch on their backs, or more properly on their shoulders, is not a large fleshy lump, as some suppose, but is occasioned by the bones that form the withers being continued to a greater length than in most other animals.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

We know, however, that the real character of their life and service is not intermittent, but is expressed in the words, "They rest not day nor night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.'" (3) It is not a life for which the world is too strong, and which cannot therefore be kept pure.
— from Memoranda Sacra by J. Rendel (James Rendel) Harris