Is not this enough for you?
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

If the answer is no, the egg falls.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Why, is not that enough for you, you insatiable person?" "Not enough?
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[39] But even if we discard the belief, that any end of action is unconditionally or “categorically” prescribed by reason, the notion ‘ought’ as above explained is not thereby eliminated from our practical reasonings: it still remains in the “hypothetical imperative” which prescribes the fittest means to any end that we may have determined to aim at.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[938] If, therefore, the fire shall try both, in order that if any man's work abide— i.e. if the superstructure be not consumed by the fire—he may receive a reward, and that if his work is burned he may suffer loss, certainly that fire is not the eternal fire itself.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I necessarily totally exclude from consideration crests which have been changed owing to specific grants, and also changes due to the discarding of crests which can be shown to have been borne without right.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I couldn't enjoy myself if I neglected them even for you, so there's no need of hurry or impatience.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

On a hot day when there is nowhere to escape from the sultry, stifling heat, the splash of water and the loud breathing of a man bathing sounds like good music to the ear.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Since this protecting power was no longer demonstrated by the very fact of birth, men found it natural to employ, for its discovery, means analogous to those used by magicians to enter into communion with the forces of whose aid they thus assured themselves.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I noticed that even from your letter in America.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That such a process should take place at all is remarkable enough; but from a technical point of view this is not the extraordinary feature of the case.
— from Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 by Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher) Wilson

The range of feeling is narrow; the enthusiasm for great generals is expressed in pompous commonplaces; even the dramatic circumstances of a campaign full of the movement and suffering of great masses of men, in bivouac, upon the march, in the gloomy and perilous defile, during a retreat, and in the hours when wavering victory suddenly turns and lets her hot lips be kissed, are scarcely seen, or feebly hinted at.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Napoleon's treatment of the Czar makes the whole situation in northern Europe and Austria easily comprehensible; it is necessary to examine from the same standpoint, also, what occurred in the southern states of Europe, remote as they were; otherwise the course (p. 118) of affairs at the opposite extremities of Europe seems utterly mysterious.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

[88] in vain did the oxen draw the plough, and in vain was the barley-seed cast into the furrow,—Dêmêtêr suffered it not to emerge from the earth.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

The Garavaig furnace stood in a slight hollow in the east corner of what is now the easternmost field of the Slatadale farm, close to where the Garavaig burn (on which are the Victoria Falls) runs into Loch Maree.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

I noticed that, except for the moment of Viola's formal introduction of me, neither of them spoke to or looked at the other.
— from The Belfry by May Sinclair

I often wonder whether the life she is leading is not too exciting for her.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

156 On a close scrutiny it would have been found that neither the Irishry nor the Englishry formed a perfectly homogeneous body.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I retain the keenest sympathy and something inexplicably near to envy for my own departed youth, but I should find it difficult to maintain my case against any one who would condemn me altogether as having been a very silly, posturing, emotional hobbledehoy indeed and quite like my faded photograph.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells