He is little more than a boy, with no trace of a mustache; his full white face with its broad cheek-bones is childishly dreamy; his eyes have a melancholy and tranquil look unlike that of a grown-up person, but he is broad, strong, heavy and rough like the old man; he does not stir nor shift his position, as though he is not equal to moving his big body.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We may say that he is not equal to his mother when we put foot in France, if we are not poisoned or killed before then.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

For that matter, I will not hesitate to say that, had I not enjoyed those advantages, I should long ago have come to rack and ruin, for the reason that, being one of the small fry, I should soon have been jostled out of the way by the crowd.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

When it is said that A has done all that he promised to do in the case which has happened, it is not meant that he is necessarily entitled to the same compensation as if he had done the larger amount of work.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The wood should be soft enough to wear away, else it produces no punk, and hard enough to wear slowly, or the heat is not enough to light the punk, and, of course, it should be highly inflammable.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

But as the Horse is not easy to be caught, the more general Opinion is, That, when he is driven out of the Reading-Desk, he will make his last Retreat in such a Manner as, if possible, to gain the Close-Stool, and defend himself behind it to the very last Drop.
— from A Political Romance by Laurence Sterne

It is however in the power of the father of the wife to divorce from her his adopted son whenever he thinks proper, in which case the husband is not entitled to any of the children, nor to any effects other than simply the clothes on his back: but if the wife is willing still to live with him, and he is able to redeem her and the children by paying the father a hundred dollars, it is not at the option of the father to refuse accepting this sum; and in that case the marriage becomes a kulo or jujur, and is subject to the same rules.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

Only one man escaped— There he is now, entering the mission.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed.
— from Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

We are told for truth that he is now eight thousand strong.
— from Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Some of us say that the Doctor has eyes in the back of his head, because he sees so many things that he is not expected to see, and I was sure that day that he had an eye on Graham.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

"I must go now," he said to his foreman, "because my brother at Newport is so feeble that he is not expected to live long.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

When the heap is not expected to be wanted
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

Surely you know that a batchelor coming up to London for a season, and being asked about by people who are precious glad to get unmarried men to their houses, is not expected to give these swell dinner parties?
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black