But scattered observations of that kind could elicit no sort of real apprehension in the minds of the Italians, who are firmly seated in the saddle; so secure do they feel in their possession of a dominion many centuries old, and so very odd do the claims of other nations appear to them.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

He undertook to show us what we already knew—that, when he remained standing perfectly erect, he could elicit no sort of response from Hans.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

To see a variegated ideal world, a diversified picture of romantic existence, was the object for which the Spaniard visited the theatre, where he could endure no sort of regularity, not even that which the nature of the subject seemed most to require.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek