Use NOT to exclude records with multiple meanings, like "CHIPS Not POTATO" (if you are looking for chips rather than snack foods).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Not the welfare of the workingmen in that distant city, not the lifting of the grinding heel of temporal power from the supine bodies of the humble––but the peace of mind, the honorable, untarnished name, the earthly riches of the slender girl who sat in that great darkened house on Belleair Avenue.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

[Pg 214] I hold that Cowper peered more closely into the fiber and essence of humanity when he wrote: ‘The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown; No traveler ever reached that blest abode Who found not thorns and briars in his road.’
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy

The pungent and appetizing Cocktail is not for us, nor the enticing Rickey.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

"May we not all urge that plea, my dear cousin?" said Ellen; "and yet in your sermon last Sunday, you told us to do all things soberly, to give due reflection to things of weight, particularly those in which temporal and eternal interests were united; not to enter rashly and hastily into engagements, not too quickly to put off the garb of mourning, and plunge once more into the haunts of pleasure."
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

And finally, for we cannot dwell indefinitely upon this subject, let us note the excellent roads that stretched from Mexico to the limits of the Aztec empire and the confederated states.
— from Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert Réville

Before their very eyes the roaring waters, as if mad with destructive power, wrenched and tore at the Company's property, twisting, ripping, smashing, until not a trestle, plank or stick was left in place and the terrific current, rushing with ever increasing volume and power through the opening, plowed into the soft, alluvial soil of the embankment, undermining and carrying it away until nearly the entire river was admitted.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

Along with the quota, the policy prescribed grouping black units, not to exceed regimental size, with white units in composite organizations and integrating black specialists in overhead organizations.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

They filled up nearly the entire room, leaving only a narrow passage between them.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur