These hee writes not; nor for these written payes, Therefore spares no length; as in those first dayes When Luther was profest, He did desire Short Pater nosters , saying as a Fryer 95 Each day his beads, but having left those lawes, Addes to Christs prayer, the Power and glory clause.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Grand-père, grand-père , do you hear?" " Cher Klinevitch, I quite agree with you, and there was no need for you ... to go into such details.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A sterner form succeeds, with a brow of wrinkles, a look and gesture of iron authority; there is no name for him unless it be Fatality—an emblem of the evil influence that rules your fortunes, a demon to whom you subjected yourself by some error at the outset of life, and were bound his slave for ever by once obeying him.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Really there was no need for him to go out.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

By this time most of those in the inn had been attracted by the dispute, but particularly Cardenio, Don Fernando, his companions, the Judge, the curate, the barber, and Don Quixote; for he now considered there was no necessity for mounting guard over the castle any longer.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He looked full of concern, and shaking his head, said, “No, no, Friday tell them to live good; tell them to pray God; tell them to eat corn-bread, cattle flesh, milk; no eat man again.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Having thus gained a complete victory over the affections of these two ladies, he began to convert his good fortune to the purposes of that principle, from which his view was never, no, not for a moment, detached.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Lafayette, in the Hotel de Noailles, not far from the Chateau, having now finished haranguing, sits with his Officers consulting: at five o'clock the unanimous best counsel is, that a man so tost and toiled for twenty-four hours and more, fling himself on a bed, and seek some rest.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

They said that there was no necessity for this, as the men dare not act contrary to orders.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

The result of this is that, whereas, before the marriage ceremony both the man and woman take the utmost care to do everything in their power to increase, magnify, and retain each other's love, after they have been granted a "license," and the minister has put their hands together and prayed over them—after this, they both think they have a " cinch " on each other, that they are bound together by a bond that cannot be broken, a tie so strong that it will need no further looking after, but which will "stay put" of its own accord, and which may therefore be let to shift for itself from the hour of its pronouncement!
— from Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by H. W. (Harland William) Long

They expected to conquer the East as well, to erase Virginia, New England, and all other English colonial titles from the map, and in their place to put the name New France.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Catch them then, and you need not fear that we shall treat you like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

A northern name for the black-wak, or bittern.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

DEATH-BALL; OR, A NEW NAME FOR IT.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 8, 1890 by Various

And Paul tells the Galatians, that when he saw some endeavour to bring the churches into bondage, that he did not give place to them, 'no, not for an hour,' &c. (Gal 2:5).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

1519, f. 272 b. Instances of the word are not frequent, possibly because we had another word for empty ( toom ) in common with the Danes; but perhaps there was no necessity for dwelling upon it in the sense of empty ; it was only its application as an epithet to a concave or hollow shield that your question could have had in view.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various

True, that in this he is disputed by General Brinton, but it is not necessary for your committee to settle this question of veracity between them.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

The deep shall follow to their latest lair; Where even the brutes, in their despair, Shall cease to prey on man and on each other, And the striped tiger shall lie down to die Beside the lamb, as though he were his brother; 180 Till all things shall be as they were, Silent and uncreated, save the sky: While a brief truce Is made with Death, who shall forbear The little remnant of the past creation, To generate new nations for his use; This remnant, floating o'er the undulation Of the subsiding deluge, from its slime, When the hot sun hath baked the reeking soil Into a world, shall give again to Time 190 New beings—years, diseases, sorrow, crime— With all companionship of hate and toil, Until—— Japh .
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron