"I make it my last request," wrote his beloved physician, now sinking fast under the diseases that brought him to the grave, "that you continue that noble disdain and abhorrence of vice, which you seem so naturally endued with, but still with a due regard to your own safety; and study more to reform than to chastise, though the one often cannot be effected without the other."
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Such calves, such milk, such butter and cheese, as came from the milk-white cow never had been seen in Wales before, nor ever will be seen again.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

They are not easy indeed, nor ever will be so, under this author's schemes of taxation; but we see no longer the same general fury and confusion, which attended their resistance to the Stamp Act.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But if we kill them, others, who have no experience, will be set to slaughter us, and will by their bungling inflict great sufferings upon us.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

"Nor ever will be," says my Lady.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I suppose iron was getting scarce, and nothing else would be strong enough.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Such elms as adorn the streets of New Haven, or overarch the meadows of Andover, would in England be considered as of a value which no money could represent; no pains, no expense would be spared to preserve their life and health; they would never be shot dead by having gas pipes laid under them, as they have been in some of our New England towns; or suffered to be devoured by canker worms for want of any amount of money spent in their defence.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The doctor predicted that a naval expedition would be sent for them the next year, Congress having hitherto failed to provide for their relief.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

Just as a female proselyte, or a woman freed from captivity, or an emancipated slave, may not enter wedlock before she has for three months lived as a free Jewess, so God also waited three months after the deliverance of Israel from the bondage and the slavery of Egypt, before His union with Israel on Mount Sinai.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

I had very little capital to put in and certainly no experience with boarding schools for girls.
— from Girls of Highland Hall: Further Adventures of the Dandelion Cottagers by Carroll Watson Rankin

He must be brought to justice, and no effort would be spared to do so.
— from Hi Jolly! by Jim Kjelgaard

Should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception, no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Great pains will moreover be taken to cultivate the domestic habits and affections, as the poet says:— "'Man may for wealth and glory roam, But woman must be bless'd at home; To this should all her studies tend, This her great object, and her end.' "At the same time no efforts will be spared to keep their young budding minds from vicious associations, and to render them as sweet as innocent, as innocent as gay, as gay as happy:— "'Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.'
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

As sure as daylight came no effort would be spared to hunt me down.
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

It will be seen from the foregoing that in the study of the biological relationships between any one plant which we happen to value because it produces timber and any other which grows in the neighborhood there may be (and there usually is) a series of problems fraught with interest so deep scientifically, and so important economically, that one would suppose no efforts would be spared to investigate them: no doubt it will be seen as time progresses that what occasionally looks like apathy with regard to these matters is in reality only apparent indifference due to want of information.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various