Adam walked round the house, and still saw nothing except a rat which darted into the woodshed as he passed.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Well, I said, no eyes are required in order to see how the one passes into the other.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

During her lecture tours of that summer and fall, while the trial was in progress before the church committee, she never entered a railroad car, an omnibus or a hotel but there was somebody ready to question her.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

In this myth, as we see, no events are related through which the natural appearance of the landscape is changed.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

And the pretty widow had shown no embarrassment about riding in the carriage which was soon to belong to her.
— from Monsieur Cherami by Paul de Kock

As for Aglaïa, she narrated, explained, and repeated her story, in the most imposing and animated tones; but while in the midst of her excitement, she perceived that Gustave was watching her from his part of the room, and shrugging his shoulders with an ironical smile.
— from Moral Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

She saw Nancy Ellen and Robert at the gate so she went out to speak with them.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

Harpagus suspecting no evil, and rejoicing at the happy sequel of that deed which had occasioned him much disquiet, having sent his son to the palace, according to the command of the king, related to his wife the strange events which had taken place.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

That I had failed after so nearly effecting a rescue seemed to embitter him unspeakably.
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut

Not a sail was in sight, nor even a rowboat anywhere.
— from Cricket at the Seashore by Elizabeth Weston Timlow