M. Thus: because, if there is no evil after death, then even death itself can be none; for that which immediately succeeds that is a state where you grant that there is no evil: so that even to be obliged to die can be no evil, for that is only the being obliged to arrive at a place where we allow that no evil is.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no enjoyment so keen to certain minds as that of looking upon the slow torture of a human being on trial for life, except it be an execution; there is no display of human ingenuity, wit and power so fascinating as that made by trained lawyers in the trial of an important case, nowhere else is exhibited such subtlety, acumen, address, eloquence.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

‘We have exact intelligence of all Mr Martin’s transactions (said he); but as yet there is not evidence sufficient for his conviction; and as for this young man, the justice could do no less than commit him, as the postilion swore point-blank to his identity.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I will not excuse you; you shall not be excus'd; excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excus'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There is no escape, Socrates, said Cebes; and to me your argument seems to be absolutely true.
— from Phaedo by Plato

The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340 There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

"—Line 35, "O holy Prior, this is no earthly storm.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is not enough stimulus to call forth satisfactory mental response.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

It thus happens that in nearly every Southern town and city, both whites and blacks see commonly the worst of each other.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

There is not even specification of the authority to which responsibility shall lie.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

"Of making many books there is no end," sighed a preacher in times when industrious readers might presumably have kept the run of current literature.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

For, greedy after richer spoil, they might well have overlooked a mass of written paper; and, even had they kept it, they would be slow to give up what would so clearly prove their participation in the heartless robbery, that is now exciting such universal horror and indignation.
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

"There is no escape," she said.
— from Wheels Within by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

'This is not enough,' said I, examining the stones.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

Now, resolutorie loquendo, I should say, according to the style and phrase of your other worships, that there is no exercise, sport, game, play, nor recreation in all this palatine, palatial, or parliamentary world, more aromatizing and fragrant than to empty and void bags and purses, turn over papers and writings, quote margins and backs of scrolls and rolls, fill panniers, and take inspection of causes, Ex.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by François Rabelais

1. Numerals, whether Cardinal or Ordinal, to which add, iomadh many , gach every , are placed before their Nouns; as, tri lathan, three days ; an treas latha, the third day ; iomadh duine, many a man ; gach eun g' a nead, every bird to its nest .—Except such instances as the following : Righ Tearlach a h-Aon, King Charles the First ; Righ Seumas a Cuig, King James the Fifth .
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

Of all the dreaded happenings in the world of beauty there is nothing else so feared as the forest fire.
— from Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton

273 This is nowhere expressly said, but it is clearly evident from the Periplus of the Egyptian.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen