for all wives and children were to be in common, to the intent that no one should ever know his own child, but they were to imagine that they were all one family; those who were within a suitable limit of age were to be brothers and sisters, those who were of an elder generation parents and grandparents, and those of a younger, children and grandchildren.
— from Timaeus by Plato

She read them over carefully, and said, with a face beaming with noble confidence, “Sir, I wish to be certain that no one shall ever know what I have just written.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

No one shall ever know from whom this generous gift comes.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

no one should ever know of her truth or her falsehood to measure out their honour or contempt for her by, straight alone where she stood, in the presence of God, she prayed that she might have strength to speak and act the truth for evermore.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

“Swear that my name shan’t be brought into it—that no one shall ever know.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

But she said, "If thou lovest me, thou must tell me," and used her most affectionate words, and said that no one should ever know it, and left him no rest.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

"If she does," he said, "no one shall ever know of the mistake she made.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

No one shall ever know where the money came from."
— from All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club by Oliver Optic

But even if I could not force my heart to remain faithful, no one should ever know it but myself.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

'I'll make 'em proud of me yet; and no one shall ever know of this awful year.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

No one shall ever know
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

He said he wanted the intimation c-c-conveyed to you as unobtrusively as p-p-possible and d-d-desired p-p-particularly that no one should ever know or g-g-guess that it had b-b-been g-g-given.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

In my situation there was nothing too hazardous for me to undertake, and I informed him that if he would let me hide myself in the hold of the ship, amongst the bags of cotton, no one should ever know that he had any knowledge of the fact; and that all the danger, and all the disasters that might attend the affair, should fall exclusively on me.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

No one shall ever know it.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

“I will—indeed I will, Antony,” she wailed; “but please promise me, pray promise me, that no one shall ever know besides us that it was I whom Mr Revitts here—a—protected.”
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

Romashov, hardly knowing what he was doing, kissed Viätkin and wept hysterically on his shoulder, complained of his empty, miserable life, and also that no one understood him, also that a certain woman did not love him—who she was no one should ever know.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin