May God punish me if I judge wrongly, but I swear he is not guilty.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To ask a convict how he got into prison, or a suicide why he shot himself is not generous . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“I do not say he is not gentleman-like, considering; but you should tell your father he is not above five feet eight, or he will be expecting a well-looking man.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Lawgaw tawhána puru lang sáad, He is no good.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He seems a good kind of old fellow enough, and has lived very well in his time, I dare say; he is not gouty for nothing.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

On seeing Pa-chieh, the second chief said: “He is no good; you must go in search of the Master and the Monkey.”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

At daybreak all the raw-eaters, seven hundred in number, got up and went as usual to their hunting and predatory excursions, and along with them went the old Rakshasi, after touching [ 80 ] Keshavati with the silver stick.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The whole resembles an inverted E, or, better still, a rude fork, on whose three deadly prongs, the Scharhorn Reef, the Knecht Sand, and the Tegeler Flat, as on the no less deadly point of the pike, many a good ship splinters herself in northerly gales.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

It was home, always home, to which every one harked back; till at last, after having destroyed {49} sufficient nests—and made sufficient holes in nether garments—being weary of pipes made from barley-straws and of whistles made of willow twigs, besides having set one’s teeth on edge with green apples and other sour fruit, suddenly the truant is seized with home-sickness, a great longing at the heart turns the feet homewards and lowers the once proud head.
— from Memoirs of Mistral by Frédéric Mistral

"For several to command," says he, "is not good, there should be but one chief.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

"Having governed my kingdom for forty years," said he, "I now give it back, in the seventy-first year of my age, to God Almighty, to whom it belongs, recommending my soul into His blessed hands, that His Divine Majesty may do what He pleases therewith.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Sure he is not going to die?" pursued Jones in a voice of strange anxiety, as he sank into the great arm-chair Carver had proffered him.
— from Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

"Surely he is not going to be nasty before these ladies," I said to myself as I approached him.
— from The Kidnapped President by Guy Boothby

"My sister's health is not good, and Miss Sherwood accompanies her to Charlottetown, as she was not willing to go alone.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

"Ferris has been a friend of mine for many years, and although for certain reasons we are not very intimate, I am sure he is not guilty of this crime."
— from The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

"Sire, he is not guilty of the second."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

With the great bulk of our population sufficient heed is never given it, and yet it is of infinite consequence.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett