Your street is not a long one, and as it opens at one end on the Rue du Gros-Chenet, and at the other on the Rue Montmartre, I shall have no reason for coming through it.
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

There we succeeded in negotiating a loan of another piece of candle, and moved on, a rare and rending headache meanwhile throbbing under my hat.
— from The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A. by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Why gentlemen, she is not a lunatic or an idiot.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

After all, the sum is not a large one, and there are worse things in life to endure than the loss of a few pounds."
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

and, 'I am glad she is not a lady!' Of all the dark and tortuous places of this life, the human heart is the most dark and tortuous; and of all human hearts none are less clear, more intricate than the hearts of all that class of people among whom Bianca had her being.
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

But the journey between modern Troy and Saratoga is not a long one, and was soon accomplished.
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

This course of deception is truly hateful in itself, and must be particularly so to her, for she is not a low, or an immoral woman; but one of those who, not having strength enough to complete the sacrifice they have had strength enough to commence, are betrayed into a life of duplicity and falsehood."
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What you say about the lie, wife, is plain, but sickness is not a lie or a falsehood, it is only too real."
— from The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter

And if I should have to fight, why, my short sword is not a light one, and by putting to a little more force I can make it bite deep enough.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne