Second, that, implying not expressing the circulation of grain, they 'swear in the face of God and their Country' with much more emphasis and comprehensiveness, 'to obey all decrees of the National Assembly, and see them obeyed, till death, jusqu'a
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But it is only surmise; there is no evidence that he ever did either of those things.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The celebrity accepts, since there is no evidence that he is to be "featured," and the chances are that he remains unconscious to the end of time that he served as a decoy.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

If I sometimes invent an incident which I forget upon the next narration, they remind one directly that the story was different before; so that I now endeavour to relate with exactness the same anecdote in the same monotonous tone, which never changes.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To this Mr. Waite replied: "All that is said about Mirabeau, his visit to Berlin, and his plot to 'illuminize' French Freemasonry, may be disposed of in one sentence: there is no evidence to show that Mirabeau ever became a Mason.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

As long as there exists no theory which can be sustained, that is, no enlightened treatise on the conduct of War, method in action cannot but encroach beyond its proper limits in high places, for men employed in these spheres of activity have not always had the opportunity of educating themselves, through study and through contact with the higher interests.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Unfortunately, to enumerate and classify the constituents of social well-being, so as to admit of the formation of such theorems is no easy task.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

But as that is absurd to imagine, the world must be esteemed wise from all eternity, and consequently a Deity: since there is nothing existing that is not defective, except the universe, which is well provided, and fully complete and perfect in all its numbers and parts.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It seems like a wild-goose chase," said Jane, "but I suppose there is nothing else to do."
— from The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston

For Dickens deals with life, and you can exaggerate life as much as you please, since there is no end to either its wisdom or foolishness.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

"He has no one with him, not even a son or a brother;" the dear mother or wife is long since dead; his children, to use his own detestable phrase, are "off his hands"; the public good has slipped from his memory and aims: but still "there is no end to all his labours, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches."
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

Still there is no escaping the fact repeatedly vouched for by natives of other islands, and voyagers who have visited them, that in times of famine the men butchered their wives, children and aged parents, stewed their flesh and devoured it seemingly with no little satisfaction.
— from Anthropophagy by Charles W. (Charles William) Darling

In this sentence there is no ellipsis; the adjective or quality respect only the man."— Dr. Ash's Gram. , p. 95.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

"My dear Jemima," added she, unconsciously drawing up her head as she spoke, "there is nothing easier than for people to talk who are not mothers.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

This was only to make a show, they intended nothing else; they may do for a moment; but there must be method and regularity in our Army.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The results of his dilettanteism are to be seen in every field; he is a bad fencer, a second-rate horseman, dancer, shot; he sings—I have heard him—and he sings like a child; he writes intolerable verses in more than doubtful French; he acts like the common amateur; and in short there is no end to the number of things that he does, and does badly.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson