He carried me to a neighbouring house, put me to bed, gave me food, waited upon me, consoled me, flattered me; he told me that he had never seen any one so beautiful as I, and that he never so much regretted the loss of what it was impossible to recover.
— from Candide by Voltaire

So that Hannibal was not so much rejoiced at his victory in the battle, as struck with astonishment at the unshaken firmness and lofty spirit displayed in the resolutions of these senators.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

"I noticed," says Mr. Rockhill ( Journey , 86), "a couple of grimy volumes of Bönbo sacred literature.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He did not make bricks—why, there was a physical impossibility in the way—as I was well aware; and if he did secretarial work for the manager, it was because 'no sensible man rejects wantonly the confidence of his superiors.'
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In might or swift prevention; but the sword Of Michael from the Armorie of God Was giv’n him temperd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of Satan with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Certainly not, said Mr Rokesmith.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Bratton is now so much reduced that I am somewhat uneasy with rispect to his recovery; the pain of which he complains most seems to be seated in the small of his back and remains obstinate.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By and by comes the King and Duke of York, and presently the officers of the Ordnance were called; my Lord Berkeley, Sir John Duncomb, and Mr. Chichly; then we, my Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself; where we find only the King and Duke of York, and my Lord Treasurer, and Sir G. Carteret; where I only did speak, laying down the state of our wants, which the King and Duke of York seemed very well pleased with, and we did get what we asked, L500,000, assigned upon the eleven months’ tax: but that is not so much ready money, or what will raise L40,000 per week, which we desired, and the business will want.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"But I won't be frightened or nervous," said Marion, resolutely.
— from Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

Plato who through abolishing family and marriage still intensifies the position of woman, feels now so much reverence towards them, that oddly enough he is misled by a subsequent statement of their equality with man, to abolish again the order of rank which is their due: the highest triumph of the woman of antiquity, to have seduced even the wisest!
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To this note, from one “who knew not how to feign,” Wright sent the following reply: “If Miss Barton knows any thing of a letter that was left at Mrs. Stokes’s, the milliner’s, last night, she may receive an answer to her questions from the bearer; who, being no scholar, hopes she will not take no offence at the shortness of these lines, but satisfy him in the honour of drinking tea with her, who waits below stairs for an answer.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

[33] nyroyal, Stechas, Musk Roses, Rue, Scabious, Centaury, Fumitory, and Agrimony, of each a handful; Spikenard, Aloes-Wood, Grains of Paradise, Calamus Aromaticus, Mace, Gum Olibanum, and Yellow Sanders, of each two ounces; Hepatic Aloes, fine Amber and Rhubarb, of each two drachms.
— from The Toilet of Flora or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz

'I do not,' said Miss Rylance, with languid scorn.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A young man unknown, coming to Antigonus to make suit for his father's command, a valiant man lately dead: "Friend," said he, "in such preferments as these, I have not so much regard to the nobility of my soldiers as to their prowess.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15 by Michel de Montaigne

The one great distinction of Mughal from Hindu art is not so much racial as social; the former is an art of courts and connoisseurs, owing much to individual patronage; the latter belongs as much to the folk as to the kings.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

"Seven or eight, I guess, maybe not so much," replied the other, "a nice, bright little kid, so I've heard.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler