Mark, here is but a little gift, a cup of cold water, and that given to a little saint, but both taken special notice of by our Lord Jesus Christ (Matt 10:42).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

We have sketched this subject very slightly, not only because our limits compel us to do so, but because, if it were pursued farther, it would be painful and repulsive.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

For some time he could see no one; but, on looking more closely to the fence, he saw signs in one part that hedging was going on.
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

For Cronje and his men had surrendered, not only because of losses or lack of ammunition, but chiefly, it was said, because the same conditions that made our camp almost unbearable made his laager in the river-bed impossible for human accommodation.
— from The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young

But, as you saw, no one besides ourselves left the cars at this station, and I am beginning to hope that we shall remain unmolested till we can take the trip to Tempest Lodge.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

“We have sketched this subject, says Dickens, “very slightly, not only because our limits compel us to do so, but because, if it were pursued further, it would be painful and repulsive.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 2. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold