Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed’s lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

First, We may observe, that should the lords and commons in our constitution, without any reason from public interest, either depose the king in being, or after his death exclude the prince, who, by laws and settled custom, ought to succeed, no one would esteem their proceedings legal, or think themselves bound to comply with them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Note.—Though this be so, no one will endeavour to hate anything, or to be affected with pain, for the sake of enjoying this greater pleasure; that is, no one will desire that he should be injured, in the hope of recovering from the injury, nor long to be ill for the sake of getting well.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Ghosts A t first sight, the exterior of the house at Auteuil gave no indications of splendor, nothing one would expect from the destined residence of the magnificent Count of Monte Cristo; but this simplicity was according to the will of its master, who positively ordered nothing to be altered outside.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If prejudice is to enter into the matter at all, an affection of twenty years’ standing counts for something; no one will ever convince him that I have wearied him with vain lessons; and in a heart so upright and so sensitive the voice of a tried and trusted friend will soon efface the shouts of twenty libertines.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Come in, come in, Monsieur Sabot, no one will eat you.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[He looks round apprehensively Seeing no one within earshot he plucks up courage to boom again, but more subduedly].
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

I peered through the window and, seeing no one within, entered.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Well, I don't think she does find pleasure,” says Merrylegs; “it is just a bad habit; she says no one was ever kind to her, and why should she not bite?
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

and should not other writings either agree with them, or if they disagree, be deemed ridiculous?
— from Laws by Plato

We call their conduct play, but surely no one was ever more in earnest than they.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

"But I am sure no one would ever think of doing that.
— from Be It Ever Thus by Robert Moore Williams

At any rate, he said nothing of what Ed Sorenson suggested, and if the latter himself hadn’t spoken of the thing I should have had no inkling that there had been anything justifying an inquiry on my part.
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

Among the wretches who concocted this notable story, not one was ever brought to justice for his perjury; and Robinson, the father, gained considerable sums by threatening persons who were rich enough to buy off exposure.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay

signed notice With regard to watercloset accommodation for factories, it appears to rest entirely with the town surveyor to draw the attention of the sanitary authority to any case where he considers this is deficient, as by the following clause: “Where it appears to any local authority by the report of their surveyor that any house is used or intended to be used as a factory or building in which persons of both sexes are employed or intended to be employed at one time in any manufacture, trade, or business, the local authority may, if they think fit, by written notice require the owner or occupier of such house, within the time therein specified, to construct a sufficient number of waterclosets, earthclosets, or privies and ashpits for the separate use of each sex.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

[Pg 62] felt sure no one would ever miss a few.
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox

Just as no one would, even now, do any work but for the necessity of finding food for himself and his family, so no one would ever have begun to stand side by side with his neighbour but for the absolute certainty that he would be killed if he did not.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

At the same time I am perfectly sure no one will ever make this exchange; nor will any help ever come to the wronged class from the outside.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre