Never before had he sold so many flowers, never at such satisfying prices, and never, never with such absolute unanimity of opinion with a customer.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Nowadays, though the feeling of danger still persists, and natives never feel safe and comfortable in a strange district, this danger is rather felt as a magical one, and it is more the fear of foreign sorcery that besets them.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Nag-úsik lang sa panahun ang nagmala (nagpamala) íning salúga, Whoever dried this floor off was just wasting his time.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Such pleasures are not necessarily or inherently bad, as has sometimes been maintained; on the contrary, they are good, but only in certain amounts or under certain conditions, so that the will is often misled, hesitates, and is lost.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing, The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing, The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The events described in the fourth and sixth parts are not necessarily the same.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

There was no occasion for him now to interpolate extraneous matter; nay, his readers told him plainly that what they wanted of him was more Don Quixote and more Sancho Panza, and not novels, tales, or digressions.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I’ve told you, and I say it again, that I have some pride, and never, never would I do as you’re doing—go back to a man who’s deceived you, who has cared for another woman.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

An hour before, so dense was the storm, nothing had been visible sixty paces away; now nothing was to be seen anywhere.
— from The Adventures of Billy Topsail by Norman Duncan

If we promptly grant it, over all our national domain, we may expect the speedy return of peace, and such prosperity as no nation ever before enjoyed.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Severe punishments are not needed and a judicious pardon, for the first offense at least, is often best of all.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

Some day some literary meteorologist will explain how these intellectual anticyclones originate in such places as Nutley (N.J.), Galesburg (Ill.), Port Washington (N.Y.), and Bryn Mawr (Pa.)
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley

Si Pédro ay nakaayàw nà.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

Si Pédro ay nakàháwak naŋ káwad na mày elektrisidàd.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

If the brushes be given additional lead, that is shifted further to the right to some position as N N, fig.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

But the same precautions are not necessary with all."
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The strike and the lockout are to our industrial life what war is between nations, and the general public stands in much the same position as neutral nations.
— from In His Image by William Jennings Bryan