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a Brāhman and there is no greater
For the cobra is in the popular imagination a Brāhman, and there is no greater sin than that of killing a Brāhman.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

and blind and there is no god
he cried, “well and good—the heathen are right and we are wrong, and in that case it were better to perish; but as surely as I sit on this throne by the grace of God, Serapis is the vain imagining of fools and blind, and there is no god but the God whose minister I am!” “Whose Kingdom is everlasting, Amen!” chanted an old priest; and Cynegius rose to explain that he should do nothing to hinder the total overthrow of the temple and image.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers

a beautiful animal there is no gainsaying
That it is a beautiful animal there is no gainsaying, but if its size and colors are magnified here within Pellucidar, so is the ferocity of its disposition.
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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