A few bits of pork should be added if there is no gravy.
— from Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. by Rufus Estes

They would seem to be independent, spontaneous, often based on facts of which no trace is shown by the human reason of the epoch that witnessed their birth; and indeed there is no graver or more disturbing problem before the moralist or sociologist than that of determining whether all his efforts can hasten by one hour or divert by one hair's-breadth the decisions of the great anonymous mass which proceeds, step by step, towards its indiscernible goal.
— from The Buried Temple by Maurice Maeterlinck

Observe if there be no bile; and if there is not, give to a full-grown cat a grain and a half of the grey powder ( Album.
— from The Cat: Its Natural History; Domestic Varieties; Management and Treatment by Philip M. Rule

Well, so long as you are better after it there is no great harm done.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley