There is no deity so great, No power in heaven can master Fate, If Ráma, Daśaratha's heir, Lay on the ground and slumbered there; And lovely Sítá, she who springs From fair Videha's ancient kings, Ráma's dear wife, by all adored, Lay on the earth beside her lord.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Such statements may be given the meaning which we wish them to bear—the quoting of Scripture is ever an unsatisfactory form of evidence; but there is no direct statement in the New Testament in favour of war, no saying of Christ which, fairly interpreted, could be understood too regard this proof of human imperfection as less condemnable than any other.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Said Utgard-Loke: From this horn it is thought to be well drunk if it is emptied in one draught, some men empty it in two draughts, but there is no drinker so wretched that he cannot exhaust it in three.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

For ye shall understand King Arthur is the man in the world that she most hateth, because he is most of worship and of prowess of any of her blood; also she loveth me out of measure as paramour, and I her again; and if she might bring about to slay Arthur by her crafts, she would slay her husband King Uriens lightly, and then had she me devised to be king in this land, and so to reign, and she to be my queen; but that is now done, said Accolon, for I am sure of my death.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

There are no windows at back, and there is no door save an opening in the floor.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

After dinner, he gone, my wife to the King’s play-house to see “The Northerne Castle,” which I think I never did see before.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So very weak is our madam become by the death of her husband, that there is no doubt she will die, when she sees Babu Nobin in this condition.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

600 There is, no doubt, some truth in these accounts of floating islands, although, as we may presume, much exaggerated.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

There is no dispute so sharp and violent amongst the philosophers, as about the question of the sovereign good of man; whence, by the calculation of Varro, rose two hundred and eighty-eight sects.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“There is no doubt some further devil’s game is in progress here,” I declared, as Harry sat upon my bed smoking a cigarette, while I was stretched in an easy-chair.
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

I had more than three months of constant travelling, often alone, and for the most part on small river boats where there is no deck space for exercise.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

There is no difficulty, says the steward of Molière’s miser, in giving a fine dinner with plenty of money: the really great cook is he who can set out a banquet with no money at all.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Of course, he could be traced, but his father is wise, I think, in not doing so."
— from The Man in Ratcatcher, and Other Stories by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

[Pg 169] “Why, there is no danger,” said Rollo.
— from Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott

There is no doubt she could diagnose a case well enough.
— from The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

They were in all probability of Malay stock, and there is no difficulty so far to understand his female relative having married a person of that race, the remnants of which have been met with since by other travellers.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

[The murmurings cease, and there is now dead silence.]
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

There is no disagreeable scent, such as might [Pg 329] have been expected from the decay of so many holy persons, in whatever odor of sanctity they may have taken their departure.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

And so Mrs. Scudder and I, we were thinking ’twould do just as well, when in came Jim Marvyn bringing the sweetest thing you ever saw, that he had got in China, and I think I never did see anything lovelier.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe