In her present uplifted state, Christie could no more help regarding David as a martyr and admiring him for it, than she could help mixing sentiment with her sympathy.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

When she could consume no more of the strawberries he filled her little basket with them; and then the two passed round to the rose-trees, whence he gathered blossoms and gave her to put in her bosom.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

A chariot was not now set up for the convenience of a man sinking under the fatigue of extensive practice, but as a piece of furniture every way as necessary as a large periwig with three tails; and a physician, let his merit, in other respects, be never so conspicuous, can no more expect to become considerable in business, without the assistance of this implement, than he can hope to live without food, or breathe without a windpipe.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Therefore Licinius, inspired with fear by the united front of both sides and dreading that some great mischief might be done by the defeated party, would not admit any of the slaves but sent them away thinking that they would suffer no harm or that at any rate they would be scattered and so could cause no more disturbance.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

V. be courteous &c. adj.; show courtesy &c. n. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

—The Spanish population of the Islands was always small,—at the beginning of the seventeenth century certainly not more than two thousand, and probably less later in the century.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

"You're wrong there, old bird!" said Clarence cheerfully; "no Magic about it whatever.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

With the bomb primed, the unsuspecting SatCom crew could now move the weapon—its fifteen kilograms of weapons- grade U 235 waiting to be imploded upon itself—up the gantry and into the satellite bay of VX-1.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover

Then the toiling hands lay still, and the shifting color changed no more.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

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— from The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson

She could conceive nothing more heavenly than to embrace one's true love in the recesses of a forest....
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

But the ecclesiastical caste, which sets this fatal principle of temporal power above the highest interests of society, can conceive nothing more prudent or efficacious than to vilify and abuse the middle class.
— from The Roman Question by Edmond About

When she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her Grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

3 Sol. Come, cry no more: thou hast wep't out twenty Pompeys .
— from The False One: A Tragedy by John Fletcher

She can carry no more.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone