The beautiful metropolis of America is by no means so clean a city as Boston, but many of its streets have the same characteristics; except that the houses are not quite so fresh-coloured, the sign-boards are not quite so gaudy, the gilded letters not quite so golden, the bricks not quite so red, the stone not quite so white, the blinds and area railings not quite so green, the knobs and plates upon the street doors not quite so bright and twinkling.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Things are not quite so bad as that.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

No,' quod she, and chaunged al hir hewe.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the doorway to the courtroom stood a young man, he was short, his legs were not quite straight, and he continually moved his finger round in a short, thin, red beard with which he hoped to make himself look dignified.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Sed nihil, quod crudele, utile; est enim hominum naturae, quam sequi debemus, maxime inimica crudelitas.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is married, and his wife is not quite so civil.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

To a certain extent we are all eccentric, queer fellows, but his eccentricities have an element of the exceptional, not quite safe for his friends.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He changes colour readily; his hand is not quite steady; and he starts at chance noises, and at unexpected appearances of persons and things.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

it was quickly decided by Eleanor to be her eldest brother, whose arrival was often as sudden, if not quite so unseasonable, and accordingly she hurried down to welcome him.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I can imagine nothing quite so ridiculous as a man going to war in a tall silk hat.”
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

They were not quite sure what their mother would have thought of her, but they knew quite well what Susan would.
— from Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"This is no quipos" said Harry, "or if it is, they must be going to send us in a whole library.
— from Under the Andes by Rex Stout

Then I am not quite sure they are going to stand the cold well, and on this first journey they may have to face pretty severe conditions.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

We have been to bed this afternoon, and are now having another breakfast; and I am not quite sure whether it is yesterday or to-morrow, or what day it is.
— from Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

No quarter said father with his last breath, and God forgive me if I rest before the whole tale is told."
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

I am not quite so safe over here as I should be in New York.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

On the whole, we are inclined to come to the conclusion that if Walpole knew anything about the compact—and we think he did know something about it—he was quite right in not allowing it to disturb his policy of non-intervention, but that he was not quite sound in his judgment if he held his peaceful course only because he did not believe that such a family bond between members of such a family would hold good.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy

The animals here, from a difference of training, or other cause, were not quite so much alarmed as they were in the menagerie in London; but when the doctor breathed out the silvery notes of his howling totem , the wolf at once answered him in a remote part of the garden.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

“Indeed!” said Helen, not quite sure whether she ought to make her tone sympathetic.
— from The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib by Sara Jeannette Duncan