38 vast French Romances these romances were the customary reading of society in Pope's day when there were as yet no English novels.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Some one addressed Confucius, saying, 'Sir, why are you not engaged in the government?'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

But do they go into the heart of Africa, still undiscovered, where as yet no European has ever ventured?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“To what are you not equal, with your superior intelligence, infallible eye, your arm of iron and your enterprising mind!” “Now,” said the Gascon, “that is all well, I accept for Porthos and myself everything--thanks and compliments; we have plenty of time to spare.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“Dear Duchess, with all my heart.” “Pshaw, no!—but with all your nose?” “Every bit of it, my love,” said I: so I gave it a twist or two, and found myself at Almack’s.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This feeling is not simply friendship; it is more enchanting, more tender; nor do I imagine it can exist between persons of the same sex; at least I have been truly a friend, if ever a man was, and yet never experienced it in that kind.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Giant with the Flaming Sword J. C. Dollman [ 2 ] When questioned concerning the creation of the world, the Northern scalds, or poets, whose songs are preserved in the Eddas and Sagas, declared that in the beginning, when there was as yet no earth, nor sea, nor air, when darkness rested over all, there existed a powerful being called Allfather, whom they dimly conceived as uncreated as well as unseen, and that whatever he willed came to pass.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Then why are you not elated?"
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

Now there had been an understanding between Mary Fraser and a certain John Thornton for some years, and although there was as yet no engagement, it was almost an established fact.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1004, March 25, 1899 by Various

But there were as yet no enemies to beware of; so we marched merrily, and cheered our nights with unstinted blaze of camp fires.
— from The Forge in the Forest Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart; and How He Crossed the Black Abbé; and of His Adventures in a Strange Fellowship by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

She is far from well, and yet not exactly what we call ill.
— from Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Hemming have locked up pretty near all the silver; with so many workmen about you need eyes in the back of your head.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

I look back upon him now as a kind of heroic type of what a young New Englander ought to be and was.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Then came war; and young New England brought from the long Canadian campaigns, stores of loose camp vices, and recklessness, which soon flooded the land with immorality and infidelity.
— from Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America by Henry Reed Stiles

Nevertheless he smiled, and said gently:— “Why are you not enjoying yourself with the others?”
— from Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte

Instead of ready-made faculties Froebel recognizes possibilities, conditions, which will remain possibilities if the necessary stimulus is not forthcoming, for in noting how the mother talks to her infant, though she is obliged to confess that there can be no understanding of her words, he says the mother’s instinctive action is right: “for that which will one day develop, and which must originate, begins and must begin when as yet nothing exists but the conditions, the possibility.”
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray