But it is evident that this speech is not given correctly in any of the old eds.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

O Lord Jesu, forasmuch as Thy life was straitened and despised by the world, grant unto me to imitate Thee in despising the world, for the servant is not greater than his lord, nor the disciple above his master.(4) Let Thy servant be exercised in Thy life, because there is my salvation and true holiness.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

He introduced this with an affected surprize at the intention which Mr Jones declared of removing; and, after urging many excellent arguments against it, he at last insisted strongly that it could be to no manner of purpose whatever; for that, unless Jones knew which way the lady was gone, every step he took might very possibly lead him the farther from her; “for you find, sir,” said he, “by all the people in the house, that she is not gone this way.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I thought, “she is not going to die; they are mistaken: she could not speak and look so calmly if she were.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I do not know the name of that flower in the pot, but we will use it as Richard's trade-mark, for it is said that it grows in only one place in the world—Bosworth Field—and tradition says it never grew there until Richard's royal blood warmed its hidden seed to life and made it grow.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The testudinate is employed where the span is not great, and where large rooms are provided in upper stories.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The subject is nothing given, but something superimposed by fancy, something [Pg 13] introduced behind.—Is it necessary to set an interpreter behind the interpretation already to hand?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

'Why, that she is not good-natured a bit, really,' with a sagacious nod of her head.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

You understand me, my dear girl, and the subject is not grateful.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The effect of this last exposure was extraordinary, and in all the time I knew the Sheik, I never got over it.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

The science is now growing so rapidly that each century witnesses a surprising advance; each generation, each decade, each year, has its own rewards for those diligent astronomers by whom the heavens are so carefully scanned.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

The date of their sailing is not given.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

This ship is not going to float.
— from Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

If then she is not governed by narrow and unjust views, she cannot contend that that is right when it respects herself, which is wrong in relation to another.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The sentiment is not given, and I almost wonder whether I should not have done better to falsify the perspective—Japanese style—exaggerating to the very utmost the already abnormal outlines of what I see before me.
— from Madame Chrysantheme — Volume 4 by Pierre Loti

No; going to heaven is not going to sleep, and going to sleep is not going to heaven.
— from Catharine by Nehemiah Adams