There was a soft, warm light in the deep-blue eyes; no one could know Charley Elliott without loving him.
— from Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma

No one can be extravagant; no one can “keep up appearances” at the cost of comfort; no one is over-anxious, or worried, or excited over anything’—except when the rare, the long-expected ship comes in, and the natives rend the air with yells of joy, and the girls cocoanut-oil their hair, and the white men rush for clean duck suits and fresh hats, and the mails come in, and the news is distributed, and cargoes go out, and every one feasts from dawn till dusk, and all the island is in a state of frantic ebullition for at least three days.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

My prompt response was immediately checked by a languid wave of the hand, and an emphatic, " No one can know."
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

The man hunters were alert, but it was their secret hope that the two famous outlaws would destroy each other, but how the wild chase would end no one could know.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand

Sometimes a company of Moors, clad in armor, and mounted upon their fiery Arabian chargers, would ride forth from the gates, while bugle-blasts rang shrill upon the air, and challenge an equal number of Christian knights to combat.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

She was inclined to quarrel with me because, although I never doubted Ideala's truth and earnestness (no one could), knowing her weak point, I feared for her.
— from Ideala by Sarah Grand