‘That is not so easy,’ rejoined the he-bear.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

‘My thought is not so easily read, then,’ said Marian.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

The one who told me that was Evaristo Rodriguez, and I never saw Evaristo Rodriguez telling lies or never—Evaristo is quiet person, he is young, married, but he is quiet.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

A man with his hat off is not so easily roused to anger as he is with it on, nor can one maintain his resentment at the highest pitch while sitting down.
— from Mlle. Fouchette: A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

Its significance is not so easily revealed to a public, unacquainted with the mystic tenets of Occultism, or rather of Esoteric Wisdom or “Budhism.”
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

I have seen women, through love of gossip, through indolence, through sheer famine of mental PABLUM, leave undone things that ought to be done,—rush to the assembly, lecture-room, the sewing-circle, or vegetate in squalid, shabby, unwholesome homes; but I never saw education run to ruin.
— from Gala-Days by Gail Hamilton

"It is not so easy," replied Timmermann; "you must first learn arithmetic and geometry."
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris

The philosophy of Kant is not so easily reducible to a simple and comprehensive formula.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

"Your pony is not swift enough," replied the chief, and the young man bowed his head in shame.
— from Star: The Story of an Indian Pony by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

"That is not so evident," returned the Genoese, who had not failed the while to study the countenance of Adelheid, as if he would fully ascertain her secret wishes.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper