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And as for thee, my good uncle, my Lord Protector, this conduct of thine is not grateful toward this poor lad, for I hear he hath made thee a duke”—the Protector blushed—“yet he was not a king; wherefore what is thy fine title worth now?
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
And that day will come or there is no God!”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
GOVERNOR J. T. BOYLE, Cincinnati, O.: There is nothing going on in Kentucky on the subject of which you telegraph, except an enrolment.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln
I can only try; if no good is to be done, you shall soon know it, and must rest contented under the disappointment.
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock
Ever since the cry of "There is no God but Allah and Mahomet is his prophet" had aroused the Arabian nomads from their age-long slumber, it was as a religious warfare that the contest of the continents revealed itself.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
And that day will come, or there is no God!
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham
A color of title is not good at law without possession.
— from The Mountain School-Teacher by Melville Davisson Post
He waved his hand from the display of his wife’s shoulders in the ticket office to the oil canvases of the Indian nautch girls, the skeleton man, the “Wizard of the West,” the “Demon Diavolo” eating fire, and the “Modern Samson” lifting ton weights—to the three Queens of the Harem, sitting on [Pg 219] the platform with “Shine,” under the flare of a gasoline “torch”—to the curtained door that led into the “Alhambra of Mystic Marvels and Persian Beauty Show.”
— from Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
Of the moral condition of the island nothing good could be expected, and little favorable is remembered.
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Either this day will come or there is no God!” The old man rose, and, his eyes glittering, his voice cavernous, he cried, fastening his hands in his long hair: “Malediction, malediction upon me, who held the avenging hands of my sons!
— from An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
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