It was Godfrey's whip, which he had chosen to take without leave because it had a gold handle; of course no one could see, when Dunstan held it, that the name Godfrey Cass was cut in deep letters on that gold handle—they could only see that it was a very handsome whip.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

No one can sleep comfortably in a bonnet.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Odours strange and musty, The air sharp and dusty With lime and with sand, That no one can stand, Make the street impassable, The people irascible, Until every one cries, As he trembling goes With the sight of his eyes And the scent of his nose Quite stopped—or at least much diminished— "Gracious!
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

‘I—I’m a little girl,’ said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Now of categorems, some are accidents …
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He bribed all the household, he gave and offered gifts and presents to my parents; every day was like a holiday or a merry-making in our street; by night no one could sleep for the music; the love letters that used to come to my hand, no one knew how, were innumerable, full of tender pleadings and pledges, containing more promises and oaths than there were letters in them; all which not only did not soften me, but hardened my heart against him, as if he had been my mortal enemy, and as if everything he did to make me yield were done with the opposite intention.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

No one could better enjoy liberty, yet no one could submit with more grace than she did to constraint and caprice.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

No one can satisfy himself of the justice of the above criticisms until he has considered the real nature of the distinction between appearance and reality.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

Rizal’s party, consisting of the Secretary of one of the lodges of Manila, and another Mason, a prominent school-teacher, were under constant surveillance and a Page 184 minute record of their every act is preserved in the “reserved” files, now, of course, so only in name, as they are no longer secret.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Whether there was any real danger in the situation or not the other boys could not, of course, say; but Tubby's way of clasping his short arms about his horse's neck so as to prevent himself from being washed overboard was so comical that they had to laugh, even while urging their own mounts to the farther shore, so as to be on hand to render assistance if such should be needed.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

“I’ll admit that it don’t mean very much now, lad,” the surfman continued as if reading his companion’s thoughts; “but on this coast at this time of the year, no one can say when everything may be changed.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis

(Illustrated collections, containing a certain number of critical studies by various authors.)
— from Auguste Rodin: The Man - His Ideas - His Works by Camille Mauclair

Electricity - production: 82 million kWh (1999) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 73.17% hydro: 26.83% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1999) Electricity - consumption: 76.3 million kWh (1999) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1999) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1999) Agriculture - products: bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish Exports: $53.7 million (2000 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But, such was the dread of the expense, and so little acquainted was this person with the rights and duty of an elector, that, when it came to the pinch, as I am credibly informed, he actually run from his agreement, and refused to do it ; so that the Baronet, when proposed, would have been left without a seconder, had not a young man, of the name of COWLAM, stepped forward and performed the office.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Cavour was not meant to be a soldier; his tastes did not agree with the routine of military life, and his clear judgment told him that the army is not the natural or correct sphere for a politician—which he knew himself to be even then, in a country where politics may be said not to have existed.
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa