"The price he asked is no doubt a bit above its proper value; but it's accommodation land, and it would be disappointing if it slipped through our fingers.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

The British Staff Organization, which concentrates these Administrative Services under the Q.M.G., is no doubt a better arrangement.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

(Anapæstic substitution (if not definite anapæstic base) arising doubtless rather from tune than from deliberate prosodic purpose; but quite prosodically correct, and sure to propagate itself.)
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

Bache is now dead; a blameless and a useful life cut short in its very prime."
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker

She told me that it never did a boy any harm to let a girl play with his parts, and promised that if I would keep the secret, she would often do this for me.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger.
— from Comic History of the United States by Bill Nye

Astronomers have hitherto covered themselves with the very convenient shield of errors of observation; but, the perfection of modern instruments now demand a better account of all outstanding discrepancies.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

"At Paris," said that ingenuous nobleman, "dicing and brawling, as usual.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

,” said the paper, “gives every promise of becoming a top-notch twirler, and there is no doubt a berth awaiting him in one of the big league teams if he wants it.
— from The Lucky Seventh by Ralph Henry Barbour