It was about ten o'clock, and market-day, when Elizabeth paced up the High Street, in no great hurry; for to herself her position was only that of a poor relation deputed to hunt up a rich one.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

He was ‘going,’ he added, to St. Louis, to fetch his family, whom he had left behind; but he seemed in no great hurry to bring on these incumbrances, for when we moved away, he loitered back into the cabin, and was plainly bent on stopping there so long as his money lasted.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

"She is not going home—if you give your house that name.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

To be sure, I once thought the lady seemed to have taken a fancy—but upon my soul I never gave her the least encouragement.—Beside you know my Attachment to Maria— SURFACE.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“I did not reply to your last letter,” said I, not giving him time to come to himself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[51] The Ringerike runic stone is not given here, as its mention of Wineland is uncertain.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

Fine brig—new copper—valuable fittings—three fine boats—remarkably choice cargo—what the auctioneer would call a perfectly safe investment; nay, gentlemen, he would go further, he would put a figure on it: he had no hesitation (had that bold auctioneer) in putting it in figures; and in his view, what with this and that, and one thing and another, the purchaser might expect to clear a sum equal to the entire estimated value of the cargo; or, gentlemen, in other words, a sum of ten thousand dollars.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Miss Anna," whispered Phillis, "she is not gone, her pulse is no lower; it is the same."
— from Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman

Nino seemed in no great haste, I thought, and I let them walk as they would, while I kept soberly in the middle of the road, a little way behind.
— from A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

If we are wise—as we weren't in '61—it may come sensibly; if not, God help my respected father, and the rest of the monied vultures, in that day!
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

Grecian Implements Used in Regularity Necessary in Round Square Stiches in, How Counted Nettlerash, Homœopathic Treatment of Nettle-sting, Cure for New Neighbourhoods for Business New Paint, Smell of, to Remove Newspapers, Waste, Care of Unfit for Wrappers Nightcap for Travellers Nightlights, to Make Nipples, Sore, Ointment for Nitrate of Ammonium as Freezing Mixture of Silver, Properties and Uses of Nitre, Poisoning by, Treatment for Uses of Nitric Ether, Uses of Nobility, Directions for Addressing Nose, Bleeding at, to Arrest ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Notice to Quit, Form of, from Landlord to Tenant / from Tenant to Landlord Given by Landlord or Tenant Legal Term of or Pay Increase of Rent Noun, Accent on Definition of November, Flowers for Food in Season in Noxious Gases, How Generated ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Nursery, Borax in the Children's Servants Sleeping in Nutrients, Properties of Nutritive Enema Contents / Index Oak Bark, Uses of October, Flowers for Food in Season in Offensive Breath Officers' Dress, Etiquette Official Members of the State,
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

It is worth repeating: Nevertheless, when commencing the downward swing, do so in no gentle, half-hearted manner, such as is often associated with the idea of gaining speed gradually, which is what we are told the club must do when coming down from the top on to the ball.
— from The Soul of Golf by P. A. (Percy Adolphus) Vaile

All its arts and industries were annihilated for a century or more; its people were massacred or enslaved, its governments shattered, its national growth hopelessly obstructed.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution