Let’s try some other way, so as not to go through there.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

4. Deliver one such address, not to exceed ten minutes in length.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The thieves were alarmed, and said, "But do speak softly, so as not to waken any one!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I entreated him to shew me the way to the superintendent’s, and not to trouble about anything else.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Most of the students came from plantation districts, and often we had to teach them how to sleep at night; that is, whether between the two sheets—after we got to the point where we could provide them two sheets—or under both of them.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

You run so as not to be late, and it’s muddy, foggy, cold—brr!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But instead of this he let loose against us the barbarians, and among them proclaimed me his foe and paid them bribes so that the people of the Gauls might be laid waste; moreover he wrote to the forces in Italy and bade them be on their guard against any who should come from Gaul; and on the frontiers of Gaul in the cities near by he ordered to be got ready three million bushels of wheat which had been ground at Brigantia, 488 and the same amount near the Cottian Alps, with the intention of marching to oppose me.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He walked quickly, so as not to get in after his wife, and the child could not keep up with him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If such a process remained unconscious, then this separation from consciousness is perhaps only an indication of the fate to which it has submitted and not this fate itself.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

To cover a man’s self (as I have seen some do) with another man’s armour, so as not to discover so much as his fingers’ ends; to carry on a design (as it is not hard for a man that has anything of a scholar in him, in an ordinary subject to do) under old inventions patched up here and there with his own trumpery, and then to endeavour to conceal the theft, and to make it pass for his own, is first injustice and meanness of spirit in those who do it, who having nothing in them of their own fit to procure them a reputation, endeavour to do it by attempting to impose things upon the world in their own name, which they have no manner of title to; and next, a ridiculous folly to content themselves with acquiring the ignorant approbation of the vulgar by such a pitiful cheat, at the price at the same time of degrading themselves in the eyes of men of understanding, who turn up their noses at all this borrowed incrustation, yet whose praise alone is worth the having.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Of course they have to be very skilful in the use of the pestle, so as not to interfere with each others' operations.
— from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by John Scudder

I uttered this speech carefully, so as not to imply any criticism of Henrietta's use of the expression "gentleman-friend," nor to call down upon my own head her criticism for using any other than the box-factory vernacular in discussing these delicate amatory affairs.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

And if school boards and schoolmasters remained unyielding in their demands upon the children he loved, at least the holidays were his, when he could take those children on long walks in the open and teach them to respect their souls and not to step on ants.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

I will read to you what occurred on the 23d March, 1776;—they being subjects of the King of Great Britain, and having never claimed to throw off allegiance to him, but claiming that he was usurping power which did not belong to him, and that they, as representatives of the thirteen Colonies of America, were the judges of that question and those facts, as we claim that the States are now the judges of this question and these facts.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

This Antigua scale, and not the one they themselves had sold labor by during the apprenticeship, became at once the favorite with a great part of the Jamaica and Barbados planters.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In Great Britain, five species are natives: the Pine and Beech Martens, the Stoat, the Common Weasel (which is the type of the family), and the Polecat.
— from Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys by Mayne Reid

Every Saturday, at noon, the lottery is drawn in Rome, in the Piazza Madama.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I sent a note to her telling her that a blind beggar had been lifted into heaven for a little while by her music, and would be glad if, of her clemency, he might sometimes be so lifted again.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

she added, nestling to his heart.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

It is worse than useless to discuss again the causes which led to this situation, and now that the law of the land has made you a free woman, the one thing for you to consider is your future, and to formulate to some degree a code of conduct for your guidance.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox