The housekeeper declared she knew nothing of my being expected.—Very
— from Emma by Jane Austen

My destiny, which almost invariably led me into strange adventures, here once more introduced me to the most eccentric character to be found not only in the neighbourhood of Meudon, but even in Paris.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

He not only maintained, but enlarged, the privileges of the wrestlers.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, SOMETIMES, not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, sometimes , not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous?
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Seaman’s Testimony ‘Uncle Billy Pender,’ as our present witness is familiarly called, is one of the oldest natives of Mousehole, being eighty-five years old; and most of his life has been passed on the ocean, as a fisherman, seaman, and pilot.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Not only me, but every farmer I know.
— from Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster

In his letter of November 24, 1894, i.e. shortly before his death, he expressed himself as follows: ‘My Russian friends almost daily and weekly bombard me with requests to come forward with my objections to Russian books and reviews which not only misinterpret but even misquote the sayings of our author (Marx).
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

He sweeps the ground before him as he goes, lest animate things be destroyed; he walks veiled, lest he inhale a living organism; he considers that the evening and night are 499 not times for eating, since one might then swallow a live thing by mistake; and he rejects not only meat but even honey, together with various fruits that are supposed to contain worms, not because of his distaste for worms but because of his regard for life.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden T he famous name of Merdle became, every day, more famous in the land.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

In the short session it will perhaps be difficult to do much further along this line; and it may be best to wait until the laws have been in operation for a number of months before endeavoring to increase their scope, because only operation will show with exactness their merits and their shortcomings and thus give opportunity to define what further remedial legislation is needed.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The condition essential to success is that the particles of the ice operated on shall be kept in close contact, so that when old attachments have been severed new ones may be established.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

The nature of mathematics being explained, we can now resume the thread of the narrative, left hanging loose, and discover how inadmissible is the claim for a mathematical science of nature, which should be the true end and the inner soul of the empirical and natural sciences.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

211 In the above passages, the author deduces two important conclusions from geological data: first, that in the successive groups of strata, from the oldest to the most recent, there is a progressive development of organic life, from the simplest to the most complicated forms;—secondly, that man is of comparatively recent origin, and these conclusions he regards as inconsistent with the doctrine, "that the present order of things is the ancient and constant order of nature only modified by existing laws."
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

227-229) quotes an extract from a work entitled “Kerry Records,” in which the following passage, relating to an elegiac poem written by Pierse Ferriter on Maurice Fitzgerald, occurs: “Aina, the Banshee who never wailed for any families who were not of Milesian blood, except the Geraldines, who became ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’; and in a footnote (see p. 229)
— from The Banshee by Elliott O'Donnell