You did not enjoy them as I did; you appeared tired the whole time.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Though here the question arises whether we are bound to make reparation for harm that has been quite blamelessly caused: and it is not easy to answer it decisively.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I was hungry, but durst not eat; thirsty, and I durst not drink, for fear of being obliged to lie all night at the side of a hedge in a cold night in December.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 by Various

“Unfeeling and impertinent intruder, retorted Alonzo, seizing hold of him; is it not enough that an innocent daughter must endure a merciless parent’s persecuting hand, but must thou add to her misery by thy disgusting interference!”
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell

That, over and above the lac of rupees thus presented to the Vizier, the Nabob Fyzoola Khân did likewise offer one other lac of rupees, or upwards of 10,000 l. more, for the Company, "as some acknowledgment of the obligation he received; that, although such acknowledgment was not pretended to be the invariable custom of Hindostan on such occasions, however it might on the present be expected," Mr. Daniel Barwell aforesaid (knowing, probably, the disposition and views of the then actual government at Calcutta) did not, even at first , decline the said offer, but, as he was not empowered to accept it, did immediately propose taking a bond for the amount, until the pleasure of the board should be known.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They very much wanted to help the old lady too, but the matter did not excite them as it did Mr. Vincent.
— from The Brownie Scouts and Their Tree House by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

“Of course,” said Kate, “my mother does not enjoy things as I do.
— from Kingsworth; or, The Aim of a Life by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

On one of the "formations" our teams had got mired in the soft, putty-like mud, and at one time it looked as if they could never extricate themselves, and I doubt if they could have, had it not been for the skill with which Marvin managed them.
— from Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt by John Burroughs

The Tuscan people went on living and marrying under consul and emperor just as they had done under lar and lucumo ; Latin and Gaul, Lombard and Goth, mingled with them in time, but did not efface them; and I do not doubt that the vast mass of the population of Tuscany at the present day is still of preponderatingly Etruscan blood, though qualified, of course (and perhaps improved), by many Italic, Celtic, and Teutonic elements.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

To do so from our point of view would be nothing else than an intolerable deification of a human being.”
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

The night passed, and again another day and night, without anything noteworthy happening, the swift craft sailing at racehorse speed, and always in the same direction, to the best of their belief, as if towards some fixed destination; but the corsair did not enlighten them, and, indeed, did not address them during the interval.
— from Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson