Corncrakes and quails do not call in the July nights, the nightingale does not sing in the woodland marsh, and there is no scent of flowers, but still the steppe is lovely and full of life.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"If to your mind all this is necessary, so be it . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He then sent His Word, and raised him up and said to him, "Fulfil your offering, for indeed, Adam, it is worth much, and there is no shortcoming in it.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

‘What a wonderful thing!’ said the king; ‘I have seen many strange things, but such a monster as this I never saw.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

These fables, easily found in histories containing a true account of events, bring us down to the Trojan war, at which Marcus Varro has closed his second book about the race of the Roman people; and they [Pg 232] are so skilfully invented by men as to involve no scandal to the gods.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The great poet is great because he is intensely individual , and there can be no intense individuality, paradoxical as it may appear, that is not subject, in a more than ordinary degree, to impressions of time and place.
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

It finds there a most receptive mood, and there is no sweeter perfume in any flower than the odor wafted by human happiness—as though every inhabitant carried in his bosom the gardens of Tuscany.
— from Dust of New York by Konrad Bercovici

KEELEY never played Bob Mettles , and there is no such character in TOM TAYLOR's Our Clerks.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 by Various

The copy only is at Milan and there is no seal.]
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

She must have a manager, and there is none so near as you.”
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

On the morning after the illuminated night she felt, upon reflection, for the first time, the horrible effort with which she had kept the promise of silence made to her parents; she sank down with unstrung energies, but also with renewed and ardent fidelity.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

It became between us two a fair exchange—a barter—and no more; and there is no such balance against me that I need throw in a mawkish forgiveness to poise the scale.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens