Sergeant Cuff made no remark to me.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I said, after contemplating it for some minutes, “this is a strange scarabæus, I must confess: new to me: never saw anything like it before—unless it was a skull, or a death’s-head—which it more nearly resembles than anything else that has come under my observation.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

‘Your behaviour, Miss Nickleby,’ resumed the lady, ‘is very far from pleasing me—very far.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I may now return to my journal, with some little chance of being able to continue the entries in it as collectedly as usual.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Now if it is to such objects that praise belongs, it is evident that what is applicable to the best objects is not praise, but something higher and better: which is plain matter of fact, for not only do we call the gods blessed and happy, but of men also we pronounce those blessed who most nearly resemble the gods.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Absorbed in his own reflections, Lentilov made no reply to this question; he simply puffed out his cheeks, and gave a long sigh as though he were very hot.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Whether we ought to love the love itself with which we love our existence and our knowledge of it, that so we may more nearly resemble the image of the divine Trinity.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

At length, about the year 1620, Opitz arose, whose genius more nearly resembled that of Dryden than any other poet, who at present occurs to my recollection.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Melipona itself is intermediate in structure between the hive and humble bee, but more nearly related to the latter: it forms a nearly regular waxen comb of cylindrical cells, in which the young are hatched, and, in addition, some large cells of wax for holding honey.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

" This unfortunate, yet most natural, reference to the Count's extraordinary power over her husband, indirect as it was, set Sir Percival's smouldering temper on fire again in an instant.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Field-Marshal, on the other hand, makes no reference to any failure on his part to realize in advance the relatively insignificant part which our original Expeditionary Force would be able to play in the great contest.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

She now made no reference to the swinish Buteau; it was only of her sister that she spoke harshly, saying that if it had not been for her they could still have continued living all together.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The old clerk told me in the vestry, 'that I might now return to Ireland, as my enemy, the Marquis of Buckingham, had returned to England.'
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

And since 'tis as grievous to lose such things as 'tis hard to get them, therefore the said Switzer would move heaven and earth to come by them again, and did even send for the famous devil-driver of the Goatskin, [37] which did so plague the thief by his charms that he must needs restore the stolen goods to their proper place: for which the wizard earned ten rix-dollars.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

” Cerizet made no reply to this malicious observation.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

We must now return to Rogero, who, when we parted with him, was engaged in an adventure which arrested his progress to the monastery whither he was bound with the intention of receiving baptism, and thus qualifying himself to demand Bradamante as his bride.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

“Don't you make no remarks to 'IM,” said the keeper as the carter came up broadside to them.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I noticed that she made no reference to the incident in the hallway, the precipitate manner in which she left us and the very evident confusion of Merle Shirley.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

This mental friction quickly appeared on the young man’s face, and his habitual expression of sulkiness which formerly belied him, now increased and more nearly reflected the reigning temperament of Blanchard’s mind.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

The count, affected, in spite of himself, by an action full of such simple frankness, respectfully kissed the maiden's brow, then turned away, that she might not read the sweet and yet painful impression so simple an action had produced on him.
— from The Gold-Seekers: A Tale of California by Gustave Aimard