490-491.)—H. C.] Khanikoff observes on this chapter: "This notice of woods easy to ride through, covering the plain of Yezd, is very curious.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy, lectures on pathology, lectures on physiology, lectures on pharmacy, lectures on botany and clinical medicine, and therapeutics, without counting hygiene and materia medica—all names of whose etymologies he was ignorant, and that were to him as so many doors to sanctuaries filled with magnificent darkness.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

For not only would experience hardly furnish sufficiently numerous 92 vouchers for this; but also, on empirical judgements we can base no concept of the necessity of these judgements.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

[1322a] This office is very disagreeable on account of the odium attending it, so that no one will engage therein without it is made very profitable, or, if they do, will they be willing to execute it according to law; but it is most necessary, as it is of no service to pass judgment in any cause without that judgment is carried into execution: for without this human society could not subsist: for which reason it is best that this office should not be executed by one person, but by some of the magistrates of the other courts.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Then it came into his mind with extraordinary vividness, that no one would ever be able to see the strange moth except himself, and that it behoved him to keep silent about it.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Some of these, however, no one would exactly call virtues: such as Sagacity in selecting the really important points amid a crowd of others, Acuteness in seeing aids or obstacles that lie somewhat hidden.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

No one would ever look on the horrible thing.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Come in, come in, Monsieur Sabot, no one will eat you.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

To me, however, no one was ever half so interesting as Arthur himself, and his conversation at these small Deanery dinner-parties was most delightful, though, as I have heard another say, and perhaps justly, "it was always versatile rather than accurate, brilliant rather than profound."
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

You can visit during study hours, you can come and go as you please; no officer would ever think of questioning the cadet commander.
— from An Annapolis First Classman by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

{15} “All could not be equally successful; few only could attain a distinguished eminence; but, as I have already observed, a far greater number of well educated and informed men were found in that small spot than in almost every other town of Europe which was not the metropolis of an extensive country.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

When I was at Misieux the French started out to camouflage the caravans where they keep their pigeons, and they did it so damned well that the poor little birds couldn't hit 'em off, and spent the night out.' We entered the white gates of a big aerodrome, skirted a forest of tents and huts, and drew up at a shanty on the far confines of the place.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

When there was no written form to petrify a word, these changes of pronunciation were very rapid and frequent, so that not only would each generation have a different set of words from their fathers, but probably each tribe would be partly unintelligible to its neighbouring tribes, just as a Somersetshire man is to a great extent unintelligible to a man from Yorkshire.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

No official was ever more obnoxious to the Church than he; for by his authority over the tribes he had been able to counteract in great measure the influences by which Young had endeavored to alienate both Snakes and Utahs from the control of the United States.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

No one would ever have supposed in seeing them, so alert and with the quickness and grace of a cat in their movements, that in their feeble mangy infancy they had only been saved from drowning by their excellent family connections, and their appealing charm of responsiveness.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

" Henry the Seventh's "boke of paymentis," preserved in the Chapter House, is stated by Sandys to contain several items of disbursement to the Lord of Misrule (or Abbot, as he is therein sometimes called) for different years "in rewarde for his besynes in Christenmes holydays," none of which exceeded the sum of £6. 13 s. 4 d.
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey

Though no one was ever more facetious than Mademoiselle de Saint Germain, she yet knew how to assume a very serious air, when ever occasion required it.
— from The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 02 by Hamilton, Anthony, Count

From their happy expression, it was evident they not only were enjoying themselves, but that they felt they were greatly affording immeasurable delight to others.
— from The Nature Faker by Richard Harding Davis