Of this I will give one instance relative to a matter of no great importance.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

| While the global matrix of networks grows rapidly, it is still behind in some lesser-developed nations and poorer parts of developed nations.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

As for the other kings, they could tell me of no great works which had been produced by them, and they said that they had no renown 85 except only the last of them, Moris: he (they said) produced as a memorial of himself the gateway of the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the North Wind, and dug a lake, about which I shall set forth afterwards how many furlongs of circuit it has, and in it built pyramids of the size which I shall mention at the same time when I speak of the lake itself.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

440 He was likewise very near banishing the writings and the busts of Virgil and Livy from all libraries; censuring one of them as “a man of no genius and very little learning;” and the other as “a verbose and careless historian.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I likewise regret the last books, which are still manuscript, of Nicephorus Gregoras.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She had either never told me, or (as a matter of no great interest) I had forgotten her surname.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

To the West, Pilolu opens up into the seas between the mainland of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But all that would have been nothing, a trivial matter, of no great consequence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Here I heard Mr. Gawden speak to the King and Council upon some business of his before them, but did it so well, in so good words and to the purpose, that I could never have expected from a man of no greater learning.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But long before the fish were ready, a multitude of new guests came pouring in, and we found ourselves in a situation which exceedingly amused us for a while, though in the end it grew tiresome.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

Jefferson had not before him the experience of these last forty years of weakness and poverty and barbarism in our new Slave States,—and of that tenacity of life which slavery shares with so many other noxious growths.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Marshal of Nobility, GOLOVIN RTISHTCHEV. P.S.—Answer me by signs.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Old age and poverty—a life-long poverty she thinks, could at no time have so effaced the marks of native gentility, which were once so visible in a face, otherwise strikingly ugly, thin, and care-worn.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

Yet, though woodcraft is harder to learn, it does not imply the possession of such valuable qualities as mountaineering; and when cragsman and woodman meet on neutral ground, the former is apt to be the better man.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

The council assembled once a month, on the second Monday, but the mayor could convoke a special meeting on notice given to each alderman.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

—These are made of net, gauze, or lace, and are plain or worked, as suits the taste of the wearer.
— from The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

Say nought, then, and let Sowerby, who had thrust his head into the jaws of the tiger, get it out as best he might, or not get it out, as the case might be?
— from Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

"Will you refuse me?" "Oh, no, general; I am at your orders.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

The coastline on the mainland of New Guinea is fringed by coral reefs and a line of large and small islands, and is indented by fine bays; but to reach them the navigation is extremely difficult.
— from Germany's Vanishing Colonies by Gordon Le Sueur