Of this dramatic masterpiece the world has no opportunity of judging; his health had been failing for some time, and he died, apparently of dropsy, on the 23rd of April, 1616, the day on which England lost Shakespeare, nominally at least, for the English calendar had not yet been reformed.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The English colonists have never yet contributed any thing towards the defence of the mother country, or towards the support of its civil government.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The English company have not yet had time to establish in Bengal so perfectly destructive a system.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And he sang how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Ocean; but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan-gods, while Zeus, still a child and with the thoughts of a child, dwelt in the Dictaean cave; and the earthborn Cyclopes had not yet armed him with the bolt, with thunder and lightning; for these things give renown to Zeus.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

The evening concert had not yet begun, and he was fain to stroll on a little farther.
— from Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy by David Christie Murray

The enthusiastic courage had not yet died away which, enkindled by the House of Orange, had converted this mercantile people into a nation of heroes, and had enabled them to maintain their independence in a bloody war against the Spanish monarchy.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Born and bred in Catholic Spain at a time when the philosophy of the eighteenth century had not yet ceased to be in vogue, and faith, if not extinct, was obscured and weak, he had grown up without religious fervor, a philosophist rather than a believer--mdash;a liberal in politics, and disposed to be a social reformer.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

That such a man as Stigand, holding every ecclesiastical office that he could manage to keep, depriving monasteries of their landed endowments with no more right than the baron after him, refused recognition by every legally elected pope, and thought unworthy to crown a king, or even in most cases to consecrate a bishop, should have held his place for so many years as unquestioned primate in all but the most important functions, is evidence enough that the English Church had not yet been brought under the influence of the great religious reformation of the eleventh century.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

The excellent Contarini had not yet departed [194] thence on his mission of conciliation to the Conference, which had been arranged with the Protestant leaders at Ratisbon.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope