It seems as though the same sun as shines for all Petersburg people does not peep into those spots, but some other different new one, bespoken expressly for those nooks, and it throws a different light on everything.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" "Sire," replied the prince, "pray do not increase my distress in this matter, but rather make me happy by giving her to me in marriage.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The orthodox (the prevailing) party devised new modes of speech, and argument, and interpretation: to either nature of Christ they speciously applied a proper and distinct energy; but the difference was no longer visible when they allowed that the human and the divine will were invariably the same.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A Particular Proposition does not assert the existence of its Subject.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Or has anything happened?" Princess Parizade did not answer directly, but at length she raised her eyes, and replied that there was nothing wrong.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose book had been sent him by someone unknown.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Even Captain Nemo's knowledge was lost to me, for this puzzling person did not appear once during our passage at full speed.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Raskolnikov, standing beside Sonia, moved aside to let him pass; Pyotr Petrovitch did not seem to notice him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Borrador de un Memorial presentado por D n .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

The Philosopher, it seems, must [48] be a soldier, ‘ undistracted , wholly devoted to the ministry of God, able to go about and visit men, not bound fast to private personal duties, not entangled in conditions of life that he cannot honourably transgress.’
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Pretty Pierre did not stop singing.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

JOHN PENDLETON Pollyanna did not go to school “to-morrow,” nor the “day after to-morrow.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

This emperor was so deeply impressed with the truth of the golden rule of pure philanthropy, "Do not unto others what thou wouldst not they should do unto you" (esteemed as the essence of the whole Jewish religion before the time of Jesus), that it was always on his lips, and was placed by him as a motto on the imperial palace and the public buildings, and proclaimed by a herald to the soldiers whenever he desired to reprimand them for attacks on the property of foreigners.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

{421} AUTHORITIES The unpretentious flowers of the woods, That rise in bright and banded brotherhoods, Waving us welcome, and with kisses sweet Laying their lives down underneath our feet, Lesson my soul more than the tomes of man, Packed with the lore of ages, ever can, In love and truth, hope and humility, And such unselfishness as to the bee, Lifting permissive petals dripping nard, Yields every sweet up, asking no reward.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

"Well, then, I suppose you had better write—only just a short note, Mollie; and pray, pray do not be too grateful.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

with her they too began to plead: "Pietà di Nona, Signore!
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett