During the time of the Fair, which is held in the adjoining regions of Smithfield, there is nothing going on but gossiping and gadding about.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

How it got into his head, I can’t say; I can only say that it never got out.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth, There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth, No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth, Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

With all her tongues of life and death, With all her bloom and blood and breath, From all years dead and all things done, In the ear of man the mother saith, "There is no God, O son, If thou be none."
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

But all the same there is nothing ghostly or terrible about Murkley Castle.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

They learned to whisk the thong at the end around the ears of a shirking off leader, and crack the lash with such an explosive sound that I never got over jumping in my whole Plains life.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

To such there is no growing old.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James

What its composition was at this time we do not know, since there is no guarantee of the permanence nor stability of nostrum formulas except “the honor and reputation of the manufacturers,” which, as investigation has shown, is not always unimpeachable.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

I am all right, well and strong; it is only sleep that I need, George, only sleep."
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

There is no glare and roar of fires; there are no showers of sparks; there is no gush of fiery streams of molten metal.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

“You are mad to try to escape,” one of them said, “there is no getting over the walls.”
— from By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Terms of proportion and comparison lose their significance: there is no great or little, important or trivial, for the minutest object is an essential part of the All, without which this All would cease to be.
— from Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed by Arnold Haultain