But when the king of Egypt sent a present of forty thousand medimni of wheat to be divided among the citizens, many lawsuits arose about the citizenship of men whose birth had never been questioned before that law came into force, and many vexatious informations were laid.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Your rights have never been questioned by anybody.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Whether fame, or conquest, or riches, were the object or Alaric, he pursued that object with an indefatigable ardor, which could neither be quelled by adversity nor satiated by success.
— 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

And though the Samnites fought on many other occasions against the Romans and were defeated, they would not be quiet, but having acquired the Gauls, besides others, as allies, they made preparations to march upon Rome itself.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

However, this vexed me so as I could not be quiet, but took coach to go speak with Mr. Cole, but met him not within, so back, buying a table by the way, and at my office late, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind disordered about this roguish business—in every thing else, I thank God, well at ease.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thanks to the school of scientific philosophers he favored, he knew the biological significance of love; but by a refined process of the same scientific reasoning he reached the conclusion that the human organism achieved its highest purpose in love, that love must not be questioned, but must be accepted as the highest guerdon of life.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

But the artist in whom the true spark has not been quenched by worldly success or other enervating influence, keeps the secret of this freshness right on, the culture of his student days being used only to give it splendour of expression, but never to stifle or suppress its native charm.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

But (which is the greatest argument) he that seems to have had the victory, not being quiet, but running up and down the army, and searching all about, To find neat Paris in the busy throng, (Ibid. iii. 450.) sufficiently testifies that he himself did not imagine that the conquest was perfect and complete.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

He also seems to have been tyrannical, overbearing, and dictatorial; according to him the attitude adopted by the Church should never be questioned by the State, but this view was not shared by his opponents.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

The predatory classes had not been quite blind to the advantages of the situation.
— from The Doom of London by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

His entire speech need not be quoted, but only its chief contentions.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

Surely her word will not be questioned by the faculty.”
— from Grace Harlowe's Problem by Josephine Chase

So near to the burning stream does he fly that his dear little feathers are scorched; and hence is he named Bronchuddyn (Qu. Bronrhuddyn), i.e., breastburned, or breastscorched.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

"If the right of the thirteen British colonies to rise in arms in order to acquire their independence has never been questioned because of the attempt of the mother country to tax them by a duty upon tea, or by the Stamp Act, will there be a single citizen in this great republic of the United States, whether he be a public or private man, who will doubt the justice, the necessity in which the Cuban people find themselves of fighting to-day and to-morrow and always, until they shall have overthrown Spanish oppression and tyranny in their country, and formed themselves into a free and independent republic?"
— from Cuba: Its Past, Present, and Future by A. D. (Arthur D.) Hall

No, the little brute would not be quiet, but howled all the louder, on the contrary.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant