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not even caring to

At last I rose from the floor and went to bed without uttering one word, and not even caring to replace the plank.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

not even condescending to

My mother, greatly surprised, asked him whether he had taken leave of his senses to give me such lessons; but the philosopher, not even condescending to answer her, went on sketching a theory in harmony with my young and simple intelligence.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

not even care to

Some of the latter shook their heads mournfully, but others did not even care to conceal the delight which gleamed unmistakably in their malignant eyes.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

not ever can they

The crafty enticements of the placid deep: Exactly thus, if once thou holdest true That certain seeds are finite in their tale, The various tides of matter, then, must needs Scatter them flung throughout the ages all, So that not ever can they join, as driven Together into union, nor remain In union, nor with increment can grow— But facts in proof are manifest for each: Things can be both begotten and increase.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

not every child that

His method of giving them an aversion to strong drink while very young amused me greatly, but it is not every child that could have stood the test of his experiment.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

not even care to

Indeed, the dreamer does not even care to admit the validity of this comparison when it is pointed out to him.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

nobody else come to

Give them time, and let nobody else come to the house, and they’ll fall in love with a chimney-sweep.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

not e contra tis

Cato the Roman, Critobulus in [6256] Xenophon, [6257] Tiraquellus of late, Julius Scaliger, &c., and many famous precedents we have in that kind; but not e contra : 'tis not held fit for an ancient woman to match with a young man.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

not even catch the

He was a good swimmer, but his left arm was yet weak, and the strength of the current carried him away so quickly that he could not even catch the branches of the willows which hung over him; and were it not that he was carried to a ford, where he gained a footing, he would have been swept between two muddy islands, and certainly lost.
— from The Conscript: A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian

not even contemplate them

"Do not," such were her words to her companion,—"do not alarm yourself by exaggerating the difficulties; do not even contemplate them: those be my care.
— from Lucretia — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

nay even Catholics themselves

Everywhere the enemy has grown strong, every where heretics are raising their heads, nay, even Catholics themselves are going over to the camp of the enemy; who, emboldened by this, as well as by the capture of two capitals, intend to raise now sacrilegious hands against Yasna Gora."
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

not Elizabeth come to

This is strange; did not Elizabeth come to the diningroom just now?” asked he in amazement of his guests.
— from Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

normal environmental conditions the

Although artificial, in the sense that the creatures of the Stock-yard are not mated by law of Natural Selection, nor are they bred or reared under normal environmental conditions, the circumstance that breeders are breeding for special characteristics, and mate the parents with a view to the transmission and the accentuation of such, provides important indications regarding hereditary influence and its determinant factors.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

not enter continued to

So that the rich people, the bourgeois , whose houses she did not enter, continued to groan without his being able to relieve them.
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

not even come to

He could not even come to wish his betrothed good-bye.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

not entirely clear to

It was not entirely clear to the darkies whether this room were not a sort of holy sanctuary, where one should scarce be permitted to breathe, except under compulsion of a driving necessity.
— from At Fault by Kate Chopin

never even came to

You never even came to say you were sorry."
— from Minnie; or, The Little Woman: A Fairy Story by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild

not equally convinced that

He is, therefore, compelled to admit that he is a measure; but I, who know nothing, am not equally convinced that I am.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

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