For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

By the category of causality, then, if I determine it by the concept of a first mover , I do not in the very least cognise what God is.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“I assure you, miss, I do nothing else!
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

though I am fond enough of myself, I dare not say that I excel in beauty that bull which carried Europa.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

" "Certainly, there can be no difference; for Robert will now to all intents and purposes be considered as the eldest son;—and as to any thing else, they are both very agreeable young men: I do not know that one is superior to the other.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Except by this way, which has been present among men both during the period of the promises and of the proclamation of their fulfilment, no man has been delivered, no man is delivered, no man shall be delivered.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now though, as I have said, honour is specially the object-matter of the Great-minded man, I do not mean but that likewise in respect of wealth and power, and good or bad fortune of every kind, he will bear himself with moderation, fall out how they may, and neither in prosperity will he be overjoyed nor in adversity will he be unduly pained.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

“And yet,” said Athos, with his habitual calmness, “if it be Monsieur d’Artagnan who is concerned in this matter, I do not perceive how I can take his place.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

"My dear boy," he said, "I did not; for the first moment I did not.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Mr. Madison .—I do not concur, Mr. Speaker, in sentiment, with my colleague on this subject.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"He is very knowing in his profession," said William, without enthusiasm; "but I doubt he will be too dear—apart from his age, and, God forgive me, I do not relish a lieutenant of eighty."
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

What this exactly means I do not know, but it is evidently very contemptuous.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Still, in your present mood, I do not know that I ought to say what I should wish to say.’
— from The Revolt of Man by Walter Besant

"Mother, I did not desairve you!" she cried.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

I became gradually more and more rapt and solitary in my habits; knowledge assumed a yet more lovely and bewitching character, and every day the passion to attain it increased upon me; I do not, I have not now the heart to do it—enlarge upon what I acquired without assistance, and with labour sweet in proportion to its intensity.
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But if Mr. Masson had called it excessively silly, I should have agreed heartily; and if any one else denounced it as a breach of good literary manners, I do not know that I should protest.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

In legend and myth it does not appear as educative, but as a test of mental power.
— from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould