The translators of Jomini's Summary of the Principles of the Art of War have endeavored to render their author into plain English, without mutilating or adding to his ideas, attempting no display and making no criticisms.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The phrases, “they say,” “everybody knows,” “nobody doubts,” “as most neighbors agree,” and however else these seeds of dishonesty and slander may be designated—all these phrases must disappear from our papers and procedure.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Presently, the coach came; and, after many sorrowful farewells, and a great deal of running backwards and forwards across the pavement on the part of Miss La Creevy, in the course of which the yellow turban came into violent contact with sundry foot-passengers, it (that is to say the coach, not the turban) went away again, with the two ladies and their luggage inside; and Newman, despite all Mrs. Nickleby’s assurances that it would be his death—on the box beside the driver.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I do not mean to say that he will never do any mischief, never hurt himself, never break a costly ornament if you leave it within his reach.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thou hast no doubt about my noble blood: See, here's the coat-of-arms that I am wearing!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe she had a liking for John Thomas, footman, for she was always spiteful-like—poor lady—when we were together—though there was nothing between us, as cook well knows, and dare not deny, and missus needn't have been jealous.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

To-morrow let Jove cover the sky with black clouds or flood it with sunshine; he shall not thereby render vain what lies behind, he shall not delete and make never to have existed what once the hour has brought in its flight.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thou must have no doubts, and must not conceal the truth from thyself.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Marie could feel that young Greg was ready to burst; but she could not detect a move, not a quiver, out of him until the last note of the last bugle had ceased to re-echo.
— from Sonnie-Boy's People by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Moreover, our fight is not directed against morality, not even against any special form of it, but only against the arrogance which assumes to stamp some concrete form of morality with the trade mark of absolute morality.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

We know we hold no doctrine, and make no declaration, which were not held to and made by “our fathers who framed the government under which we live.”
— from Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate by Abraham Lincoln

“‘But what do you say?’ “‘No! Dick and me never had no quarrel.’
— from Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter by Elliott O'Donnell

It is all custom, no doubt, and means nothing, but it is wonderfully pleasant and flattering.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

If I were to live a long time in the world, I would not desire a more noble life, than the life of pure and single dependence on God; for, said he, though I may have a claim to some gifts of learning and parts, yet I ever found more advantage by single looking to God for assistance than by all the parts and gifts that ever I could pretend to, at that time.’
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Shakespeare, and the legend he followed, WET HARVEST TIME NEAR DALMALLY, ARGYLLSHIRE make no account of the fact that a considerable river guarded Dunsinnan from hostile advance of its distant neighbour.
— from Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer; Described by A.R. Hope Moncrieff by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff