For making his citizens ambitious after honours, with men of that disposition he has filled his senate, since no others will solicit for that office; and yet the principal part of those crimes which men are deliberately guilty of arise from ambition and avarice.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

"Well, I have a bad trick of standing before the fire, and so I burn my frocks, and I scorched this one; and, though it's nicely mended, it shows, and Meg told me to keep still, so no one would see it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Of all the boys in the street who sang the mocking song about the storks, not one was so determined to go on with it as he who first began it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Some praised most King Olaf's courage, and some named others who stood nowise behind him in bravery.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

When her father took her from school, no one was sorry to see her go.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

so no one will step into it accidentally.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Her naive retelling of a child's tale she has heard, like the story of "Little Jakey," which she rehearses for Dr. Holmes and Bishop Brooks, is charming and her grave paraphrase of the day's lesson in geography or botany, her parrot-like repetition of what she has heard, and her conscious display of new words, are delightful and instructive; for they show not only what she was learning, but how, by putting it all into letters, she made the new knowledge and the new words her own.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

“But I have heard it said, ‘granted that this is so, and that the vapour-engine has a strength of its own, surely no one will say that it has a will of its own?’
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Upon my soul, no one will see!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With her heart throbbing up in her throat, she looked out, but saw no one whom she knew.
— from Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin

"Let Pepper go; he is the smallest; no one will see him, and if they do they will take no notice.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

The man himself spared no one who stood between him and the realisation of his dream.
— from American Sketches by Charles Whibley

Usually it meant a religious person or one fussy about the edge of her skirt; neither of which she ever considered.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

Think of such awful things as epilepsy and insanity, and cancer and scrofula, none of which science can cure!
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 3 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

But she spoke not of what she felt.
— from Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

At intervals of a week or two, orders would come for this or that prisoner to be delivered to the care of the Marshal of the Temple—none knew for what, though all surmised the worst, since not one was seen to return; and so time sped on, month after month, death and removal doing their work, till at last Gerald was the oldest détenu in the section of ‘L’Opinion.’
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever