These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent—their desolation is complete.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

That impious maxim of the ancient philosophy, Ex nihilo, nihil fit , by which the creation of matter was excluded, ceases to be a maxim, according to this philosophy.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Hence the generally accepted principle, " ex nihilo nihil fit ."
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

But Milt repeated the Pater Noster, and prayed: et ne nos inducas in tentationem!
— from Painted Veils by James Huneker

When the surgeon-general said to him that there was no hope, he could not believe it, and passionately exclaimed, "No, no, general; no, no!"
— from Footprints of Abraham Lincoln Presenting many interesting facts, reminiscences and illustrations never before published by J. T. (Jonathan Todd) Hobson

The neighborhood is a Sahara of solitude, the scene of gardens deserted long ago, abandoned vineyards, and palatial edifices now nearly or quite crumbled to dust.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou