No other woman exists by the side of her.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
Not only was every blossom stripped from the apple trees but great boughs and branches were wrenched away.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
In the present age, when education is within the reach of all, both rich and poor, every lady will endeavor to become, not only well educated, but accomplished.
— 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
But it is also demonstratively certain that no one will ever be able to maintain the contrary with the least show of probability.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
The Olympic gods, being all and each of them affrighted at the sight of such achievements, said: Pantagruel hath shapen work enough for us, and put us more to a plunge and nearer our wits’ end by this sole herb of his than did of old the Aloidae by overturning mountains.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
But the most famous surgeons also made mistakes; and that is what no one would ever believe!
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Whether there is anywhere now, or will ever be, this communion of women and children and of property, in which the private and individual is altogether banished from life, and things which are by nature private, such as eyes and ears and hands, have become common, and in some way see and hear and act in common, and all men express praise and blame and feel joy and sorrow on the same occasions, and whatever laws there are unite the city to the utmost (compare Republic),—whether all this is possible or not, I say that no man, acting upon any other principle, will ever constitute a state which will be truer or better or more exalted in virtue.
— from Laws by Plato
"No one will ever be healthy in that house!
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
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
It is said that among the many instruments of writing drawn by him not one was ever broken in a court of law, nor were any of his surveys of land found to be incorrect.
— from A History of Deerpark in Orange County, N. Y. by Peter E. Gumaer
"I suppose," she went on, coming up closer to him, "that that's why no one will ever be like her again—because no one will ever be taken in so completely by shams again, never by the empty shell of anything.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole
But I added, "I am afraid no one will ever be quite bold enough to attempt that."
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson
No opposition was encountered before reaching the pickets in front of Donelson.
— from From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force
They knew no one would ever believe their story of swimming in a pool in deep space!
— from Young Stowaways in Space by Richard M. (Richard Mace) Elam
A great number of warriors, excited by the relation of the adventures of chivalry, and by a passion for military glory, followed the Hospitallers in their enterprise; [98] women even were desirous of taking a part in this expedition, and sold their diamonds and jewels to provide for the expenses of the war.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud
It will be perceived that this young lady was not overcome with emotion, but in a perfectly collected state of mind.
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
As she was a woman, with her field restricted to the social world, from whose stand-point she must necessarily, therefore, be judged, her singular genius was productive of many extraordinary achievements, through all of which there was a very audible appeal for the love that never failed her, but which was given to her in such measure as perhaps to no other woman ever born in America.
— from Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century by Virginia Tatnall Peacock
In order that we may not incur the wrath of the divine majesty, let us consider wherein the true worship of God consists; for the punishment of temporal fire, inflicted on false worship under the Old Testament, is to us a proof, that the Lord will also, under the New dispensation, take the severest vengeance on all strange worship, not only with everlasting, but also with temporal fire, wars, desolations, and effusion of blood.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt
And if the business is carefully managed, no harm will come of it, and no one will ever be able to speak ill of it, for it will be believed throughout the empire that I am mouldering in the ground.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
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