“You are sure there is nobody there?” said the stranger.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Men have undoubtedly an implicit notion, that all those ideas of modesty and decency have a regard to generation; since they impose not the same laws, with the same force, on the male sex, where that reason takes nor place.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

You do me justice, Socrates; that is not the sort of attention which I mean. SOCRATES: Good: but I must still ask what is this attention to the gods which is called piety?
— from Euthyphro by Plato

Discussing the cost of building, he says: “There is not the slightest reason to doubt that the financial result of a similar undertaking in any tenement-house district of New York City would be equally good....
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

"No," he said, "there is not the slightest chance for it, not the slightest."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Although Miss Halcombe had ended all that she thought it necessary to say on her side, I had not ended all that I wanted to say on mine.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Yea, weep to him, lift up your hands; be your eyes as a fountain of tears; Where he stood there is nothing that stands; if he call, there is no man that hears.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The saddlebags, there is not the slightest doubt, have been found by the natives.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

"Sir Griffin Tewett," she said, "there is not the slightest necessity that you should come up—'to scratch.' I wonder that I have not as yet been able to make you understand that if it will suit your convenience to break off our match, it will not in the least interfere with mine.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

'No,' said Sebastian , sighing--and pausing, as loath to speak more: 'Sir,' said Octavio , 'I suppose this is not the secret you had to impart to me, for which you separate me to this lonely walk; fear not to trust me with it, whatever it be; for I am so entirely your own, that I will grant, submit, prostrate myself, and give up all my will, power, and faculties to your interest or designs.'
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

Would you say that is not the scope that was on the rifle?
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The king, or hero, is three times larger than the other figures; whatever is the action, whether a siege, a battle, or taking a town by storm, there is not the smallest idea of perspective in the place, or magnitude of figures or buildings.
— from How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Blanchard Jerrold