[“What is the reason that the oracles at Delphi are no longer uttered: not merely in this age of ours, but for a long time past, insomuch that nothing is more in contempt?” —Cicero, De Divin., ii. 57.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The frown, the harsh rebuke, the frequent application of the rod, enjoined by Scriptural authority, were used, not merely in the way of punishment for actual offences, but as a wholesome regimen for the growth and promotion of all childish virtues.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But Miss Pole only read the more zealously, imparting to us no more information than this— “Ah!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But even on him too did heaven send misfortune, for there is no race of royal children born to him in his house, save one son who is doomed to die all untimely; nor may I take care of him now that he is growing old, for I must stay here at Troy to be the bane of you and your children.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"I suggest, Cadbury, that you give us no more information than you have done (which is practically nothing) regarding the source of the supper."
— from Jack of Both Sides: The Story of a School War by Florence Coombe

She had a subtle perception that the new style of living into which she had come was superior to the old ways in which she had been brought up; not merely in the vulgar item of costliness, but in the far higher qualities of refinement and propriety and beauty.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

The dependence of man upon nature makes inevitable the occurrence of what we call accidents, violent breaks in the tissue of personal and social life, unaccountable from the point of view of our human purposes.
— from The Principles of Aesthetics by De Witt H. (De Witt Henry) Parker

The Word of God speaks to us not merely in the public worship of the faithful, but in and through the lives of the brethren; their deeds act on us as the simple stories of experience and providence which the Scriptures contain.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

It was then the difference in circumstances, employment, and opportunities for improvement that made the urban Negro more intelligent than those who had to toil in the fields.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

You can imagine Abu Hassan's astonishment when he woke up next morning in the splendid bed and looked around at the room so beautifully decorated with gold and expensive wall hangings.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

The term impropriety we shall use, not merely in the strictly rhetorical sense of the word, but in the popular meaning, to include in it all inaccuracies of speech, whether offences against etymology, lexicography, or syntax.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews