It is not easy to see how Kashgar should have been subject to the Great Kaan, except in the sense in which all territories under Mongol rule owed him homage.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It was only the second time either of them had been upon a Mississippi steamboat, and nearly everything they saw had the charm of novelty.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Fortunately, the mariners were used to these latitudes, and knew every rock in the Tuscan Archipelago; for in the midst of this obscurity Franz was not without uneasiness—Corsica had long since disappeared, and Monte Cristo itself was invisible; but the sailors seemed, like the lynx, to see in the dark, and the pilot who steered did not evince the slightest hesitation.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Was it not enough that she had her man, her children, her place of shelter under the sun?
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It was a task of immense difficulty; it was not enough to shew her that our success depended on her submitting; I had to threaten to send her back to Bologna by herself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“At three o’clock she may go, and I shall not expect to see her again for three days.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is not enough to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

If I should nominate 'ee to succeed him, and there should be no particular opposition, will 'ee accept the chair?”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Mr Thomas was at home, and did not express the surprise he felt at the demand.
— from It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Emily Sarah Holt

Gomin and Larne had not yet ventured to follow this advice, when next day M. Benoist was relieved by M. Bidault, who, hearing M. Desault's name mentioned as he came in, immediately said, "You must not expect to see him any more; he died yesterday."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

He could not bring himself to do it, nor even to state his case in its best terms; and that was because he felt that even in its best terms the case was a bad one.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

The knowledge that he had always tried to do the best that he could and that he had endeavored to treat every creature living as fairly as he knew how was not enough to satisfy him, and he said: "There is something still of which I have never heard or dreamed.
— from The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher: A True Story by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum

Magnie, or Magnus Birk, as his real name was, had once (though Olaf stoutly maintained that it was mere chance) hit the bull’s-eye at a hundred yards, and he was now eager to show his skill on something more valuable than a painted target.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

I shall try not to use authority, however, and I do not expect to speak here of all my reading, whether it has been much or little, but only of those books, or of those authors that I have felt a genuine passion for.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

He had not expected to see her ever again during his long tramp from Salzburg to Grenoble.
— from The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

None of my servants were in the secret; only my wife, in whom the queen herself had confided, knew Rudolf, and she did not expect to see him, since she was ignorant of the recent course of events.
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Thus, in illustration, it does not extend to statements, however sound and evident, which are mere logical conclusions from the articles of the apostolic Depositum ; again, it can pronounce nothing about the persons of heretics, whose works fall within its legitimate province.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

His comrades gave him a hearty farewell when he left, never expecting to see him again.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty