" "May I ask who that person is?" "No, Mr. Dawson," answered Robert, decisively; "I cannot reveal anything more than what I have already told you.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And these were the conditions of the King: That save he won the first by force, he needs Must wed that other, whom no man desired, A red-faced bride who knew herself so vile, That evermore she longed to hide herself, Nor fronted man or woman, eye to eye— Yea—some she cleaved to, but they died of her.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows; But like of each thing that in season grows; So you, to study now it is too late, Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Since so, my minde Shall not desire what no man else can finde, I'll no more dote and runne To pursue things which had indammag'd me.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

‘No, my dear Annie,’ returned the Old Soldier, ‘I have not quite finished.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“The swimming apparatus of this fish is not much developed, and reduced to a number of spines erect from the back and the belly.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

In the present day a voyage to Australia is not more distant as regards time than America or even the Mediterranean in years gone by.
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

I no more desire a Rose, Then wish a Snow in Mayes new fangled showes:
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

So that the sad lessons of Felix's family life stimulated to excess his innate leaning towards misanthropy—if that name may define a resistless urgency of belief in the appearances of evil, linked with a doubt of the reality of good.
— from The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various

"No, my dear aunt," replied he; "I speak the truth to you, ungrateful as it is, to prevent you hearing it in perhaps a more painful form from Wallace himself."
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Then the naked man drew a rattle from his belt, and began to shake it and mutter, having first blindfolded the other.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

He will soon convince himself that Species have no more definite and real existence in Nature than all the other divisions of the Animal Kingdom, and that every animal is the representative of its Branch, Class, Order, Family, and Genus as much as of its Species, Specific characters are only those determining size, proportion, color, habits, and relations to surrounding circumstances and external objects.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The boy had seen neither man draw a revolver; not a word had been said.
— from The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's Grit by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler