In the street there is no gleam of sheep’s-eying or any manner of indecorum.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained—who can say this is not greatness, or show the other Englishman who has achieved so much?”
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

Occult external is that which is manifested by words or signs, either in secret or to one or two persons only—as though a man in the solitude of his chamber should say “There is no God,” or should utter his thought in the presence of another.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

other saith, “There is no God, O son, If thou be none.”
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne