And though the total result in my mind is not exactly suspense of judgment, but an alternation and conflict between positive affirmation by one act of thought and the neutrality that is the result of another, it is obviously something very different from scientific certitude.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The good monk is not even scandalized at so unholy an alliance as the marriage between Roderick's widow and the son of Mūsa.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Even so usual a performance as the organization of well-known material is not entirely subject to the particular purposes of the author.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends; And as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

After Saturday the Nun shall visit you no more.' 'May I not enquire,' said I, 'by what means you are in possession of a secret which I have carefully concealed from the knowledge of everyone?' 'How can I be ignorant of your distress, when their cause at this moment stands beside you?' I started.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Nos interim quod, attinet (nec enim immunes ab hac noxa sumus) idem realus manet, idem nobis, et si non multo gravius, crimen objici potest: nostra enim culpa sit, nostra incuria, nostra avaritia, quod tam frequentes, foedaeque fiant in Ecclesia nundinationes, (templum est vaenale, deusque) tot sordes invehantur, tanta grassetur impietas, tanta nequitia, tam insanus miseriarum Euripus, et turbarum aestuarium, nostro inquam, omnium (Academicorum imprimis) vitio sit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends; And as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare

Mon Dieu ," moaned the young ruffian, "may I not even sleep without offending M'sieu'——" Warner shook him, not roughly.
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Afterwards, he gives his own character to Percy, in these words: ‘I thank thee, gentle Percy, and be sure I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends; And as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.’
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

la paix de ses maisons impénétrables, noirs, et silencieuses—l’histoire de France est là, tout entière.—
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Ask me friend Bob Bows here whether Miss Fotheringay's moind is not even shuparior to her person, and whether she does not possess a cultiveated intellect, a refoined understanding, and an emiable disposition?”
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

We all understand what is the bias of a man's mind, and how strong that bias may become when the man is not especially scrupulous.
— from North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

Must I not even sacrifice in peace From your harsh clamour, when you’ve had your say?
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Mr. Barnum, especially, was told that he must in no event speak directly to Her Majesty, but through the medium of the aforesaid Lord.
— from A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton