Then the vision faded slowly away from the sight of the peers; and the mountain walls rose up before them as grim and steep as ever; and the snow-crowned crags looked down upon them even more angrily than before, and there seemed no road nor pathway which the foot of man could follow.
— from Hero Tales by James Baldwin

But Henriette sprang up quivering, and dealt his chassepot a blow, so that the bullet flew skyward: 'No, no,' said she, 'not relatives; not people we know.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

They prefer work, for where there is no work there is no smoothness, no regularity, no peacefulness, no satisfaction.
— from All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov

Surely no ruby, no pearl, ever cost more!
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

Electra meant to show no resentment, no pain.
— from Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

A rose is hardly wiser than a poet, you see: neither rose nor poet will be comforted, and be content to dwell in darkness because a crown of tinsel swings on high.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida