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nothing I could have done

It was nothing; I could have done it easy enough, and I said so; but everybody went on just the same, making a wonderful to do over that ass, as if he had done something great.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

no intelligence concerning her destination

Perceiving, that she could obtain no intelligence concerning her destination, Emily dismissed Dorina, and retired to repose; but all the busy scenes of her past and the anticipated ones of the future came to her anxious mind, and conspired with the sense of her new situation to banish sleep.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

now in China has disappeared

Boodhism, once prevalent in India as it is now in China, has disappeared, and Brahminism prevails.
— from India and Indian Engineering. Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872 by J. G. (Julius George) Medley

Now if Christ had done

Now, if Christ had done no more than this, he had only paid our debt, but had not obtained eternal redemption for us.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

No invitation could have delighted

No invitation could have delighted Lincoln more.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Niagara is Chute haute de

Niagara is "Chute haute de 120 toises par où le Lac Erié tombe dans le Lac Frontenac."
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

nothing I could have done

[27] “Will you swear that nothing I could have done would have made you stay?
— from Rodmoor: A Romance by John Cowper Powys

No I conclude he did

“No; I conclude he did not suppose I was able to ride so far.”
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

novel is clearly highly dramatic

This novel is clearly highly dramatic and intensely interesting.
— from Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

None indeed could have drawn

None indeed could have drawn it out but one who had studied in some lazar-house, wherein, as Milton describes, “were laid Numbers of all diseased; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture; qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds; Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs— Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs”—&c., &c.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 24, December 12, 1840 by Various

no illusion could have done

And it was nice to see the bright look of pleasure which came over her face when she realised that it was Taisy, really Taisy, and not an 'optical illusion,' who stood before her and then hugged and kissed her as no illusion could have done.
— from The House That Grew by Mrs. Molesworth

nor I could have done

[30] Neither you nor I could have done better than that, even if we had been strong enough.
— from Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton

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