Ever since that afternoon when she had stood on the back porch waving joyfully to David and received no answer her world had lost its color.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

They had scarcely gone when the servant who had waited on them knocked at the door, and receiving no answer, hearing no voices, quickly opened it and looked in.
— from Burton of the Flying Corps by Herbert Strang

Accordingly, wishing to give Lucullus the slip, he put himself in motion immediately after supper, taking advantage of a dark and rainy night; and he succeeded in planting his force at daybreak right opposite to the city, at the base of the mountain tract of the Adrasteia.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

He calls and stretches forth His arms the entire day, always ready; nobody answers Him, nobody admits Him or suffers Him to enter.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

He knocked upon the door, and receiving no answer, he knocked louder, and then he kicked.
— from What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton

"When anybody volunteers to do a really noble act, he ought to be allowed to do it," said the Captain.
— from Harper's Young People, May 17, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

"I most positively do, and right now and here I'm willing to promise you—" "Wait a little, Mr. Pender.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

The colt was breathing deeply and regularly; not a hair was turned from sweat and he showed no signs of distress.
— from The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

** It was a dark and rainy night, and he lay concealed in a ravine near Shoemakers (where Walter Butler was captured the year before) until near daylight, when his warriors were called to duty, and soon swept, like a fierce wind, over the plain.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing