aid to me in a hopeless voice, “Oh, there is no use talking; there is no chance for a policeman.”
— from Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

There was no use trying to interfere; no use trying to get away, for the house would be watched.
— from Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

The savans who oppose this view exclaim not unnaturally that there is no great difficulty in propelling a machine either along the land or the water, seeing that both these media support it.
— from Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics by James Bell Pettigrew

But you noticed that I did not use the tourniquet; I never do.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

They are without means and without food, and with only the shelter that the dried palm-leaves of their hastily erected bohios afford, and in the rainy season that is now upon them, there is no shelter at all.
— from Cuba: Its Past, Present, and Future by A. D. (Arthur D.) Hall

"Do you not understand that there is not a moment to lose?"
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

"Your Majesty does not understand that this is no ordinary rat," I returned calmly.
— from The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs

I am not used to that, I ne'er could bring me to it, To wield the spade, I could not do it.
— from Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you now understand that there is nothing I would leave out that you would have to ask for, or that if you did have to ask, I would give it immediately, and ask your forgiveness for my error?
— from The Second Story of Meno A Continuation of Socrates' Dialogue with Meno in Which the Boy Proves Root 2 is Irrational by Unknown