This was no usual case.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

For in everything in nature there is something of which no ground can ever be assigned, of which no explanation is possible, and no ulterior cause is to be sought.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

John H. Wigmore , Professor of Law in Northwestern University, Chicago . {ix} INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH VERSION.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He was probably received by Michael Choniates, the archbishop who had defended Athens against the tyrant Leo Sgurus, (Nicetas urbs capta, p. 805, ed.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

My words about Yevgeny Nikolaitch uttered casually and in jest you have taken in quite a wrong sense, and have ascribed to them a meaning deeply offensive to me.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A question with an , less often anne , or if negative, with an nōn , usually challenges or comments emphatically on something previously expressed or implied: as, an habent quās gallīnae manūs?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Kuntruládu na ang mga prísu nga nagráyut, The prisoners that rioted are now under control.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nam, ut tribuamus aliquid voluptati, condimenti fortasse non nihil, utilitatis certe nihil habebit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But the enemy's detachments could strike this road at so many points, that no use could be made of it, and General Grant had to employ the railroads, from Columbus, Kentucky, to Corinth and Grand Junction, by way of Jackson, Tennessee, a point common to both roads, and held in some force.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

No unworthy compliances with the established cult were required of them.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Good grapes I bought at tenpence a pound, but they give the cultivator a great deal of trouble, as the vines are sure to be attacked by a large brown ant, and stripped of their leaves in a single night, unless care be taken to have the lower part of the stem isolated by water.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

On the night succeeding the conference, they approached in great numbers, under cover of the darkness, and completely surrounded it; many of them crawling under the banks of the two rivers, and, with incredible perseverance, digging, with their knives, holes in which they were completely sheltered from the fire of the fort.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

Raising the wall from Fisherman's Bank down stream to its present termination will have a beneficial effect, and remove the possibility of small vessels—when not under command—resting upon it at high water.
— from Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91 by Australia. Queensland. Department of Ports and Harbours

Her Majesty has observed with the liveliest feeling of gratification the manner in which the troops of her ally, the Emperor of the French, came to the aid of the divisions of the British Army engaged in this numerically unequal contest.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

andenburg and Pomerania, left the new generalissimo no time to lose; and his presence was now urgently called for by those who commanded in that quarter.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Thus the arts advanced, proceeding from strength to strength, constantly receiving accessions of improvement, which were favoured by many conspiring, and retarded by no unpropitious circumstances: and, being native to the country, the abilities of the artists in a great measure formed the taste of the age, as its fostering admiration constituted their most flattering reward.
— from Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts by John Robert Scott

And this was no uncommon case.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.

The twinkling lamps of the city afloat sending out reddish lines, and the fuller, clearer, luminous pencillings of the gas-lamps of the city ashore, made a not ungrateful contrast to the quivering chart of poetic moonbeams.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

If thee is thyself a Friend, thee must not use carnal weapons, but if thee is one of the world's people thee may do what is in thee for the ships and armies of thy good King George.
— from The Noank's Log: A Privateer of the Revolution by William O. Stoddard