The negative adverb of quantity is neniom , no amount of, not any, none, no: Tiu pentraĵo postulas neniom da lerteco , such a painting requires no skill.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Natásha entered with a softened and agitated expression of face and sat down looking silently at Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve &c. (forgive) 918; exonerate &c. (exculpate) 970; save the necessity.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

That many good folk still consider the word devil, lightly spoken, a profane utterance only second to a similar utterance of God’s name, is a curious survival of old superstitions.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Inferno: Canto XXIX La molta gente e le diverse piaghe avean le luci mie si` inebriate, che de lo stare a piangere eran vaghe.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Come quando la nebbia si dissipa, lo sguardo a poco a poco raffigura cio` che cela 'l vapor che l'aere stipa, cosi` forando l'aura grossa e scura, piu` e piu` appressando ver' la sponda, fuggiemi errore e cresciemi paura; pero` che come
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Two or three gigs and chaise-carts were wheeled up under different little sheds and pent-houses; and the occasional heavy tread of a cart-horse, or rattling of a chain at the farther end of the yard, announced to anybody who cared about the matter, that the stable lay in that direction.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

We spent all the day loosing stones and placing them in readiness to roll down, and were then prepared for your coming.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

King Arthur did likewise, and each party retired in the twilight from the field, where the wounded lay groaning till death or succour came; and the dead lay still and pale, until the kindly earth was thrown over them.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

Dandy in de libery stable at Pine Lake."
— from Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune by Stanley R. Matthews

44 In Flores the sons even of rich families are dressed like slaves at public feasts, so long as the father lives, as also at his funeral.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

I daresay you will," said the boy, dubiously; "p'raps it had been better if I'd told the truth—my pa always says 'Stick to the truth, Sidney;' but you did look such a poor body to lock up, that I told a lie for once.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson